Mobile Development

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...