Mobile app design is a crucial phase during development and a mobile app’s UI can make or break the application. Delivering a great user experience should be your number one priority as a mobile app developer as it has a powerful and direct impact on your user engagement, conversion rates, and consequently revenues. There are…
React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich mobile UI from declarative components. With React Native, you don’t build a “mobile web app”, an “HTML5 app”, or a “hybrid app”. You build a real mobile app that’s indistinguishable from an app…
Continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and continuous deployment have drastically changed the mobile software development cycle, especially with the different continuous integration tools developers now use to ship their apps. As software development cycles are becoming faster, time to deploy apps and delivery cycles are becoming shorter and shorter. Instead of companies shipping new app…
In today’s global world, mobile app localization has become a must. When implemented well, it has helped some apps improve their app store ranking, increase downloads by up to 200%, and enhance revenue by almost 30%. Now that mobile app developers and project managers are becoming more aware of these facts, the need for a…
While you can use spreadsheets as a way to manage test cases for a small team, it can quickly turn into a huge burden as your team grows and you iterate on your app. Other tools like JIRA can be configured to support test cases management, but will not offer testing-specific features. Eventually, you will…
Mobile App Intelligence tools give you access to mobile app market data. Details include everything from app downloads, user retention, and activity to historical rankings, ratings, reviews, keywords, as well as advertising campaigns, creatives, and impressions. This makes mobile app intelligence tools perfect to keep an eye on your competitors, compare your app to theirs…
Mobile commerce has been on a steady rise for the past few years, and according to Statista, it is projected to make up 72.9% of all e-commerce by 2021. And with 85% of consumers preferring apps over mobile sites and mobile apps holding the lowest cart abandonment rate at 20%, e-commerce apps are rapidly gaining…
If there’s one thing I know about product managers, it’s that they love flowcharts. Visual tools like diagrams and flowcharts are absolute necessities for the job. They make data more manageable and complex ideas clearer. There are tons of software options for diagram creation, but not all flowcharts are created equally (or easily). To help…
Xamarin is one of the most popular cross-platform frameworks at the moment. Xamarin development allows you to develop Android, iOS, OS X, and Windows applications using Visual Studio and C#. It allows you to share code between your Android and iOS app and compile it into native code. It also provides the advantages of native…
With the abundance of apps available, mobile users now have a really low tolerance towards apps with poor performance. This is not limited to bugs and crashes as users also take things just like the app’s speed and battery consumption into consideration. According to a report by Dimensional Research, 49% of users expect apps to…
The gaming industry is one of the biggest in the world. It employs hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and as of 2017, rakes in a revenue of over $100 billion annually. That’s why a lot of developers and enthusiasts want to build their own games and rake in the dough. With so many mobile…
Game engines are the way to go to properly develop a game and have full control over it. They do require advanced developers and experience, as they’re highly customizable and the possibilities are endless. However, they save you a lot of time by offering many preset modules, libraries, effects, and tools so that you don’t have…