How often should you update your app? There seems to be no particularly clear answer, and how could there be. Each developer, app, and market are completely different from one another. So how can there be a magic number that applies to an app like Facebook as well as an up-and-coming indie game? The answer…
Google’s yearly conference, Google I/O, highlights new updates coming to the Google and Android ecosystems. In 2019, Google introduced several changes to the Google Play Store that give app owners more options when it comes to feature and app updates, store listings, and data. Dynamic app delivery Last year Google introduced App Bundles, which functioned…
As you iterate on your app and add features and code to it, the effort needed to test your app will increase. Eventually, you will reach a point where you need to find a more efficient process for creating, executing, and reporting on your test cases. Mobile test automation tools help you increase your testers’…
Ever since its inception in the 1980s, the practice of dogfooding has been steadily gaining in popularity. Today, it is no longer an obscure strategy used only by the most progressive companies and we can find many examples of dogfooding across industries. Dogfooding is not a silver bullet and is certainly not a replacement for…
Mobile app A/B testing tools allow you to create randomized experiments using two or more variants to compare the performance of different alternatives and figure out which one works best for your mobile app. These alternatives can be anything from buttons to copy, images, buttons, and more. This can help you improve your mobile app’s…
By Blake Sirach For many companies, software releases are stressful, nail-biting, teeth-gritting stretches of time when the whole enterprise is looking at your team and just waiting for something to go sideways: a major bug on an untested Android device, poor customer response, or unmet stakeholder expectations. But they don’t have to be that way!…
Thanks to the flexibility and control it gives developers over their apps, feature flag tools are seeing wide adoption in the industry. They allow for quicker development and enable you to experiment, A/B test, and personalize your app to different users. However, using an in-house solution for feature flagging can be too time-consuming to implement…
In today’s digital world, there are countless devices running numerous operating systems all around the world. To reach a larger audience, you would have to publish your mobile app on each of these different platforms. However, creating a mobile app for different operating systems isn’t an easy task, to say the least. You would basically create…
Keeping up with the world of Cordova can be a tough job. You need to have a reliable set of Cordova blogs or content sources to stay up-to-date with all of the news, updates, and announcements in Cordova. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the top Cordova online communities including Cordova, Ionic, and PhoneGap…
iOS 12 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2018, and with it came a lot of changes, leaving developers everywhere wondering about how the new changes with the iOS 12 App Store would affect their apps. Apple’s App Store was launched ten years ago and currently has over two million…
Mobile app internationalization (I18n) is the process of customizing your code so that it’s ready for localization and able to be modified and released in multiple languages. Mobile app internationalization needs to come one step ahead of the mobile app localization process as your code needs to be ready to handle the localized content when…
Deciding on a bug tracking tool to use for the development of your app can be confusing. The sheer amount of tools that have surfaced in the recent years and the similar functionalities they offer can make it difficult to determine which one will be best for you and your team. Bug trackers are essentially…