Survey Results: You’re Not Sold on Augmented Reality – Yet Nate Swanner, October 10, 2019 3 min read As augmented reality (AR) headsets loom on the horizon, it seems technologists are split on whether the technology...
Google Officially Favors Kotlin Over Java, Says Half of Android Devs Use It Nate Swanner, May 9, 2019 3 min read When Google first promoted Kotlin as an official language for Android, Java developers everywhere took notice. Now...
Survey: Will Apple’s Cross-Platform ‘Marzipan’ Project Actually Work? Nate Swanner, April 10, 2019 3 min read Marzipan, the code name given to Apple’s cross-platform app project, was unveiled at WWDC 2018. With four unique...
Swift Has a Huge Gaming Problem, But Study Shows It’s Widely Used Nate Swanner, March 7, 2019 6 min read Swift, the language developed at Apple and released in 2014, is nearing version 5 – and a level of settled-in...
Google EU Fine Could Mean Big Things for Android Developers Nate Swanner, July 19, 2018 5 min read In response to a European Commission decision to levy a $5 billion fine against Google (Alphabet, really) for antitrust...
Five Alternatives for Developing Native iOS Apps David Bolton, April 2, 2015 7 min read The simplest way to join the ranks of iOS developers is to learn Objective-C and/or Swift (the latter, while not quite...
Apple iOS Devs Rejoice: App Size Limit Doubles Nick Kolakowski, February 13, 2015 1 min read Apple iOS developers of the world, rejoice: the size limit for your apps has doubled, from 2GB to 4GB. According to...
Google Android, iOS, and… Ubuntu? Nick Kolakowski, February 9, 2015 2 min read In January 2013, Canonical (a company that works with the open source community on Ubuntu, a free operating system)...
For Mobile Apps, 2014 Was a Very Good Year Nick Kolakowski, February 4, 2015 1 min read App Annie has posted a helpful retrospective of the mobile-app ecosystem in 2014, and some of the data points are...
In the Mobile App Market, Few Get Mega-Rich Nick Kolakowski, January 28, 2015 3 min read Apple paid out $10 billion to third-party developers last year, industry analyst Horace Dediu wrote in a...
