Building a mobile app usually costs a lot of money and takes months to launch. Well, there’s a fast and more simple way to create your own native app. In this article, Nick Babich explains how you can use Dropsource (a free visual platform for building mobile apps) by creating an Android app for a chain of restaurants.
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Building your own app really gives you the ability to create anything you can imagine. If you are a designer, surely you have seen plenty of designs that are not perfect, and you should feel OK with your app’s design not being perfect too. You have to start somewhere, and with the help of other designers and developers, you will improve. In this tutorial, Craig Clayton is going to look at one page of an existing app and teach you how to get the design into Xcode. The design for this app was done using an app called Sketch. Sketch allows you to design anything from websites to mobile apps. It is my preference for designing mobile apps.
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Users couldn’t care less about whether a technology is native, an installed web app or a website. What makes users engage and makes shoppers convert is really the experience itself. In this article, Mitch Lenton takes a closer look at PWAs on Android devices and explains how we can pave the way for a new era of browserless web browsing.
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Windows, macOS and Linux made up font-wise, and since then, all modern fonts have been compatible across those OS’. There’s no question, the future of web typography looks promising. At the 2016 ATypI conference, the world’s biggest type design conference, Microsoft, Google, Apple and Adobe announced that they have been working on a new iteration of the OpenType standard, called variable fonts. Because it gives a lot more control to the user to modify the typeface depending on the context and device, this new version opens new opportunities for web typography and will close the gap in quality between web and print. In this article, François Poizat will show you the ins and outs of these new tools and how to take control of our typography.
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In this article, Aidan Sliney is not going to make you the next Instagram, but he will hopefully help you get a nice base level of users that you can grow from. The example app in this article received 100,000 downloads in eight weeks. This is with a marketing budget of zero and very little work since launch. Aidan will cover the basic app store optimizations that will help bring people to your Google Play page. Getting them to download and stay is up to you and up to the value your app provides. Of course, to get traction, you need to pick a topic in which enough people are interested, and then the quality of your build is what is going to help keep these users.
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With iOS 10.3, Apple has gifted the world powerful new features, as well as fixes for critical security holes. For your typical iPhone user, it’s a really nice upgrade. For a software developer who is responsible for either a mobile website or a native app, it can be a huge pain, because Apple changed the confirmation alert into a new non-blocking dialog. For developers, there is a hidden change that has more important implications: the App Store had always received a special exemption from the old version of this alert, but that exemption has now been removed.
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Today, developers can help to defend their users’ personal privacy by adopting the Privacy by Design (PbD) framework. The PbD framework poses challenges that only you can answer. No one else can do it for you: it is your responsibility to commence the process. These common-sense steps will become a requirement under the EU’s imminent data protection overhaul, but the benefits of the framework go far beyond legal compliance. In this article, Heather Burns will give you an insight into the PbD framework.
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In the past 10 years, a big portion of the Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conferences has been devoted to iOS. This is where we learned about the first iPhone SDK, notifications, share and today widgets, the iOS 7 redesign, iPad multitasking, and other iOS milestones. I was genuinely surprised with some of the announcements this year. In this article, Lou Franco brings you his overview of what happened this WWDC season, with code samples. If you want to try out any of the sample projects, you are going to have to update your Mac to macOS Sierra 10.12.5 (the latest point release), and have Xcode 9 installed.
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As digital and offline experiences got more intertwined, new interactive advertising formats emerged, with a promise to capture the most scarce and valuable marketing asset of all — people’s attention. The latest mobile trends show promise that publishers and advertisers are getting smarter about the user experience. Google is working to recapture lost attention with a crackdown on mobile pop-ups, and marketers are easing off of aggressive acquisition strategies to focus on retention. In this article, Anya Pratskevich will look at some of the biggest trends in mobile marketing.
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All professionals should frequently question their methodologies and see what other options exist. If one approach was previously the best, that does not mean it remains the best. This analysis is often more difficult in software development because new frameworks and technologies emerge almost as quickly as they die off. In this article, Paul Frances will apply this analysis to hybrid mobile apps and present why he believes that React Native is in many ways a superior solution for apps developed in 2017. To do this, he will revisit why hybrid apps were created initially and explore how we got to this point.
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