Walmart Launches Mobile App Payment Option
Mobile payments are officially mainstream. Wal-Mart has launched “Walmart Pay,” a Wal-Mart-specific mobile app for payments via debit, credit, and gift cards. (You know, like PayPal.) Spokespeople at the company say the mobile app development team is hard at work integrating even more cutting-edge mobile payment options, to include features like mobile wallet integration in […]
Figma is Google Docs for App Designers
Google Docs has been a part of the app developer toolbox for almost ten years now. The real-time editing, team collaboration, version control and commenting features all enabled by a cloud-based web app structure have revolutionized businesses from Mom-n-Pop storefronts to London mobile app development companies. …So what’s holding up the cloud revolution for other […]
A Language for App Developers: Apple Open Sources Swift
Apple recently open-sourced Swift, the Apple-brand programming language, allowing developers to apply the language outside the context of iOS app development. Swift has seen runaway success since its debut at the WWDC 2014 developer conference, quickly becoming an essential part of the modern app development company’s toolkit; as well as a solid first language for […]
Facebook Instant Articles Launches in Asia
Although it’s been less than a year since Facebook Instant Articles launched in the US, the company has been aggressively pushing growth of the of the enhanced mobile app media feature. Instant Articles are now live throughout Asia, only two weeks after launching in India. As the name suggests, Instant Articles is a Facebook feature […]
How WeChat Leverages Chat UI to Offer Diverse Features
WeChat doesn’t look like much from a western mobile app developer’s perspective. Is it WhatsApp for Asia? Is it Google for China? Then you see the staggering statistics behind the chat app’s wild growth since its 2011 launch: above 90 percent of the population in all first-tier Chinese cities use the app regularly. Beijing alone […]
Tinybop App Developers Discover Key to Apps for Kids
Raul Gutierrez, the entrepreneur and iPhone app developer behind Brooklyn-based childrens app startup Tinybop, has a lot to say about the problems with mobile app options available to children. And while the surprise success of the startup’s purposefully “weird” apps for kids come as no surprise to parents of the Tinybop target audience, New York iPhone […]
Job-Hunt Industry Disrupted by Mobile App Development
Central adult activities like dating, banking, entertainment, and even investing jumped onto the mobile app bandwagon almost immediately when the first Droids and iPhones hit the market. Meanwhile, the job search industry has until the past year or two been surprisingly slow to adopt, with even tech specialists, Chicago iPhone app developers and project managers […]
Facebook Launches Work Chat, Competes Directly With Slack
Facebook recently launched Work Chat, a direct messaging feature within the Facebook at Work app. Facebook at Work has been in use for a while now since it’s public announcement last January, currently listing hundreds of startups and companies worldwide including big names like Heineken among its fanbase. Adding advanced chat features to the app […]
Startup Applies Tinder UI/UX to the Democratic Process
In a political season where it sometimes feels like everybody and their brother has run for the Republican presidential candidacy, Voter, a startup touted as “Tinder for the government,” brings a fresh breeze of simplicity to the decision-making process — on the voter’s end, anyway. Like any successful iPhone app developer, Voter looked at a […]
App-Only Content is Now Listed in Google SERPs
As of November 18th, developers of mobile-only apps can breathe a sigh of relief; after years of indexing in-app content but not surfacing the data in search results, Google has officially begun rolling out app-only content in Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). For now the change is only directly affecting participating mobile apps, with a […]