—— Mobile App Development

iOS and Android, shipped and scaled.

Native and cross-platform engineering, release process, and the craft that separates a prototype from a product in the store.

4 Reasons Native Apps Are Killing Web Apps
Mobile App Development

4 Reasons Native Apps Are Killing Web Apps

Last week, Yahoo had its annual Mobile Developer Conference and shed some sobering light on the native vs web app debates, and it doesn't look great…

Ashley Rondeau
Sep 1 4 min
5 Tips When Designing Mobile Apps for Kids
Discovery and Strategy

5 Tips When Designing Mobile Apps for Kids

Designing apps specifically for children takes both ethics and a different approach than designing for adults. Here are 5 tips that will help you develop your…

Dan Katcher
Aug 12 6 min
5 Smartphone Features That Fizzled
Mobile App Development

5 Smartphone Features That Fizzled

It's been 8 years since the first generation iPhone arrived and introduced the piece of technology that built empires and ruined concerts. We've learned a lot…

Ashley Rondeau
Aug 3 5 min
Mobile App Development

7 Places to Learn to Code Mobile Apps

We're always on the look out for great developers because, to be honest, great developers are hard to find. You'd think in this digital age, everyone would…

Ashley Rondeau
Jun 22 5 min
Mobile App Development

5 Reasons to Learn to Code in Swift

Earlier this month, Apple announced Swift 2, an updated version of the app programming language that Cupertino has been pushing for over a year now (to…

Ashley Rondeau
Jun 17 4 min
5 Reasons to Start Developing Apps for Google Cardboard
Mobile App Development

5 Reasons to Start Developing Apps for Google Cardboard

Back during their 2014 I/O developers conference, Google surprised us with an ostensibly low-tech product at such a high-tech event: Google Cardboard. Never heard of it?…

Ashley Rondeau
May 27 5 min
The Secret Reason Why 78% of Small Businesses Don’t Have a Mobile App
Growth and App Marketing

The Secret Reason Why 78% of Small Businesses Don’t Have a Mobile App

You'd think by now we've achieved maximum saturation of mobile apps. After all, we have apps that can order a pizza at the press of a…

Ashley Rondeau
May 13 4 min
Growth and App Marketing

4 Reasons to Update Your App Every 2 Weeks

When Mike Beltzner, mobile product lead for Pinterest, was asked why the app puts out a new version every three weeks, he had this response: "Because…

Ashley Rondeau
Apr 30 3 min
Mobile App Development

5 Reasons Why App Developers Still Choose Apple Before Android

Time.com declared the smartphone app war over and touted Apple as the winner. While we are not so bold, it’s clear that as of early 2015…

Ashley Rondeau
Feb 17 6 min
Growth and App Marketing

How do I love thee? Let me count the Waze.

In the spirit of Valentine's Day, we pen a love letter to one of our favorite apps. There are not a lot of apps that out…

Dan Katcher
Feb 13 9 min
The Top 5 Mistakes When Designing Mobile Apps
Mobile App Development

The Top 5 Mistakes When Designing Mobile Apps

Snake aside, no matter how fun it was on your old Nokias, the first mobile apps as we know them today debuted alongside the first iPhone…

Ashley Rondeau
Jan 20 5 min
Android invasion
Mobile App Development

Android invasion

Today's post was written by guest blogger Richard Reece. Richard is a senior consultant with Rocket Farm, specializing in both iOS and Android application development.  We…

Dan Katcher
Sep 8 3 min