In today’s world of designing and building apps. Your app needs to look great to stand out. A great background image, icons and videos can take an app to the next level for users. For this we use really two sites consistently to source our photos and videos for when we need something great. The
Make sure your app has a stable backend server
When building apps there is in many cases a backend server that does things like hold user account information. The server also often coordinates with other systems to for example show a user’s account balance. The backend server you use can be very important. Since if the server ever goes down or fails it also
Most Revenue will come from a small number of your App Users
When meeting with clients and talking about how to build their app. One discussion point that often comes up is charging for the app and the business model involved. In building apps it is important to remember that in many cases only a minority of users will ever pay for your app or do any
Controlling Distribution of your app
Our customers sometimes ask about controlling the distribution of their apps. If they can restrict an App’s visibility on the app store to be a certain country, to a certain State or province or even to a certain city. The good news is Apple and Google do give control over this though not at the
Installing WordPress on Google App Engine (Google Cloud Platform)
In the below tutorial, we will outline how to install WordPress on Google App Engine and get an instance up and running. There are a lot of steps in the process, which is why it is a lengthy tutorial, but at the end you will have WordPress running on Google App Engine. We recommend you
Screen Recording in iOS 11
Apple added a cool new feature to iOS 11, but they’ve hidden it by default. The feature is built-in screen recording, so you can record yourself using any app. This is very handy for bug reports and even generating video tutorials. To turn it on is you need to: 1) Go into Settings->Control Center 2)
Use of undeclared type in Swift from Objective-C
If you are running into the error of “Use of undeclared type” trying to use an Objective-C object in Swift, then the problem might be due to the bridging header between Swift and Objective-C not actually working properly. When you use the bridging header between Swift and Objective-C to import Objective-C objects into Swift the
Investor Tax Credit set to Change Tech in Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Technology Start-Up Incentive is winding its way to final approval and should be implemented later this year. The tax credit will allow small technology startups who are almost always short on capital to raise more by giving a tax incentive back to their investors. This new tax credit, developed in collaboration with SaskTech,
How to install an Android application from an online website
In our work over the years there has been times when we send users Android builds via a binary file hosted on a website. Installing apps in this way is fairly straightforward and is outlined below. Note it is recommended to delete any previous version of the app before installing the new app. The steps are