Whether you are just starting out or you’re a seasoned Android developer already, you know how difficult it is to perform seemingly simple tasks. Thankfully, many have been there before you and created Android libraries and frameworks to help you develop with ease. I asked our Android team what they thought were the essential Android…
It’s a challenge for every mobile team to get their app noticed in the middle of the 2.46 million apps on the Google Play store and 1.96 million apps on the App Store. It is an equally huge challenge to retain your users after they do download your app. Qualitest reports that 88% of app…
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’…
Zendesk is one of the most popular help desk management tools thanks to its extensive features and intuitive experience. With its ability to collate user feedback from all your channels into one platform, it has made a huge difference in the way support teams work. Thanks in part to the mobile revolution, customer feedback and…
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 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…
Ever since its release back in 2013, Slack has been quickly adopted by many teams across different industries. And with its ability to cut emails by almost half and reduce the need for meetings by 25%, it is no wonder it has become near ubiquitous. This popularity has also spurred a lot of different tools…
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, but will not offer testing-specific features. Eventually, you will need…
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…
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…
Any mobile phone that stores, or has access to company data, poses a security threat or vulnerability. And in the age of the smartphone, there are more mobile devices than ever that need to connect to your network and have access to sensitive data. This is where mobile device management (MDM) and mobile application management…
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…