Google Officially Debuts Android Oreo During the Eclipse
This afternoon, while everyone was looking skyward to catch a glimpse at that solar eclipse (including the president, who couldn’t resist the urge to look up without his special glasses on), Google officially unveiled the eighth version of Android. Called Android Oreo, the updated OS transitioned today from its developer preview to the Android Open […]
Google Play and iOS App Stores Show Big Q1 Numbers
It’s a great time to be an app developer as product flies off the proverbial shelves. According to App Annie, the top analyst firm of the mobile app economy, app stores broke download and revenue records in the first quarter of 2017. There were 25 billion new app downloads this quarter alone, a truly epic […]
iOS vs Android: How to Create a Compelling UI
One of the biggest misconceptions about UI design from newcomers to mobile app development is the idea that apps can simply be “copied over” to other platforms. Unfortunately, the truth is much more complicated — even on the surface level, Android and iOS differ in subtle but key ways when it comes to UI and […]
Mozilla Exits Mobile Development, Focuses on Browser
Most of us know Mozilla as the company behind Firefox, the highly customizable Chrome alternative. But to iPhone and Android app developers, the company is known for something else: Firefox OS, an intriguing but short-lived attempt to provide an alternative to Android and iOS. While the anti-native web-app-only interface showed a lot of promise in […]
How Fragmentation Issues are Holding Android Back
At last count there were over 3,000 possible combinations between different devices and software running on the Android platform. Fragmentation issues don’t just create stressful headaches for Android developers but heart attacks as well. There are various reasons as to why Android fragmentation issues effect Android even though the platform offers developers so many alluring […]