Android

iOS Developers Ship Fewer Apps as Non-Native Frameworks Suffer

Nate Swanner, 

April 9, 2018

According to data from AppFigures, Apple’s App Store is in decline while the Google Play Store remains on the rise. There’s a good bit of context …

Users Spend More Money in Apps as Mobile Web Use Declines

Nate Swanner, 

April 2, 2018

Native mobile apps are driving retail, along with consumers ordering from their laptops and desktops. And that means the mobile web, long viewed as a salve …

Android Studio 3.1 Rolls in More Kotlin Support, New Compiler

Nate Swanner, 

March 29, 2018

Android Studio 3.1 is out, implementing key Kotlin tooling and other improvements that round it into a formidable IDE. One of the more interesting items is …

Google’s Android P Could Force Big Changes for Developers

Nick Kolakowski, 

March 13, 2018

Google is offering developers a glimpse at Android P, the next iteration of its mobile operating system. As with any developer preview, the code is unpolished, …

Google Pushes Flutter, Its Cross-Platform Framework, into Beta

Nick Kolakowski, 

February 28, 2018

Google has issued the first beta release of Flutter, its mobile UI framework that allows developers to build native interfaces in both iOS and Android. The …

Android and iOS: Which Offers More Jobs? And Which Pays Better?

Nick Kolakowski, 

February 23, 2018

It took ten years, but Google and Apple seem to have settled into something of a détente when it comes to smartphone operating systems. You don’t …

Google’s Android KTX May Streamline Kotlin Programming

Nick Kolakowski, 

February 9, 2018

Google really wants developers to build apps with Kotlin, which it recently named a “first class” programming language for Android. In order to streamline that adoption, …

Google Considering Gaming Console, Streaming Service: Rumor

Nick Kolakowski, 

February 8, 2018

Could Google become the next big gaming-console manufacturer? That’s the scuttlebutt after The Information reported that the search-engine giant is interested in a game-streaming service that …

Should You Focus on Native or Mobile Web Apps?

Nick Kolakowski, 

January 30, 2018

At some point in its existence, every company with an interest in the mobile space must make a crucial decision: invest in building a native app, …

Kotlin 1.2.20 Offers Even More Features for Fast-Rising Language

Nick Kolakowski, 

January 19, 2018

A new Kotlin release, 1.2.20, offers a number of bug fixes and tooling updates, including IDE support for a new style guide and incremental compilation for …