Every year, about 5000 people descend on San Francisco to attend Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Attendees get direct access to Apple’s software engineers, who are directly responsible most of the software that ships on Apple devices. They get to attend sessions covering various topics on how to build the best apps for iPhones,
PyCon 2014
Keeping up with technological advances can be hard which is why we try go to the best and more notable technological conferences to learn and teach the best technologies available. In April 9th-17th I had the pleasure to attend PyCon 2014 in Montréal. PyCon is a conference related to the usage of the programming language
Mobile Monday – Space Stretch
What better way to celebrate the start of the week than by featuring one of our CollegeMobile-made apps (soon to be Push Interactions-made apps!). It occurred to me the other day that I never really talked about this awesome app when we launched it last year. The Space Stretch iPad App made for little ones
The Modern User Experience
A smartphone in every pocket, a tablet in every hand and a PC on every desk. That’s the dream espoused by the technologically elite: Computing that is pervasive and all-encompassing. We are well on our way down that path. Smartphone sales surpassed 1 billion units in 2013* and tablet sales reached 76 million** . The
Passbook and Apple’s Future for Mobile Payments
After years of slowly gaining momentum, mobile payments are becoming one of the juggernaut markets of the technology industry. Last year Forrester estimated it would become a $90 billion market by 2017. Apple is gradually beginning to unroll and reveal their plans for this space. Their Passbook application is starting to gain traction, thanks in
Putting App Content Forward
You may have heard the term “content is king” before. What exactly does it mean, and does it have any relevance when it comes to mobile applications? The concept has a simple application to mobile design. Users want to see the application content, they care about little else. I’ve gathered some screenshots of Apple designed
Techniques on Increasing User Engagement
If you’re getting ready to have an app built for your company (or perhaps you already have one and are deciding on your next move), you’re probably asking yourself how you can convince consumers to use your app, in order to make it a worthwhile investment? The answer is to make use of habit forming
BBM Channels for Businesses
BlackBerry has, in an explosive fashion, finally released BBM on Android and iOS. The popular chat application is now available for the two most popular smartphone platforms in the world. The Android application has exceeded 10 million downloads in just over 1 week (SOURCE). Between Android and iOS, BlackBerry claims to have added over 20
Understanding Banking App Permissions
As an application developer, there is one type of app review that I am always pained to see. Here are some real world examples of that type of review, taken from a mobile banking app for Android: This app wants access to everything on your phone. Access to storage, access to make calls, access to