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Eclipse vs Android Studio: Which IDE Is Better For Android Developers?

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Hussain Fakhruddin is the founder/CEO of Teknowledge mobile apps company. He heads a large team of app developers, and has overseen the creation of nearly 600 applications. Apart from app development, his interests include reading, traveling and online blogging.
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              Eclipse has been, for years now, the preferred integrated development environment (IDE) for Android developers. However, it is currently facing serious competition from Google’s very own Android Studio. Let us here pit the two IDEs against each other, and try to identify the better one.   It has been an exciting couple of months for… Read More »

14 Likely Features In The Android Lollipop 5.1 Update

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              The adoption rate of Android Lollipop, after more than two months of its release, has remained shockingly low. A major update – Android 5.1 Lollipop – is scheduled to be launched in the end of February. We have highlighted some likely improvements in the new update, in what follows.   The latest round in the… Read More »

Eclipse vs NetBeans – Which Is The Better IDE For Android App Development?

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              Eclipse is the go-to Java IDE for most coders working on Android applications. However, there are two other perfectly good alternatives to Eclipse available as well – NetBeans and Intellij Idea. We have here done a comparison study between Eclipse and NetBeans.   Most comparative analyses regarding the integrated development environments (IDEs) for Android developers… Read More »

‘Hey Siri’ Vs ‘Ok Google’ – War Of The Mobile Digital Assistants

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              Apple and Google Android are constantly at loggerheads, as far as their mobile business is concerned. The Siri vs Google Now is one of the most interesting mini-battles in this ongoing war. We here analyze how the two virtual assistants perform on the basis of several parameters.   Ever since the handsfree ‘Hey Siri’ feature… Read More »

AppBoard Tuesday – How To Keep Your Mobile Apps Secure?

AppBoard Tuesday - Edition 46
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              Every mobile app company in the world claims that its applications come with ‘100% security assurance’. To be fair, most of them do perform rigorous app testing (on devices, in the cloud, etc.) procedures, to detect and delete bugs. Considering that it takes close to $5000 to identify and fix a major bug/malware after an app… Read More »

15 Early Problems With Android 5.0 Lollipop Platform

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              It is only natural for various types of bug reports to do the rounds, immediately after the release of a major mobile software platform. Much had been documented about iOS 8 problems in September and October, and it seems that Android Lollipop has also run into troubled waters now.   This was always going to… Read More »

Why Is Xamarin The Ideal Tool For Cross-Platform Mobile App Development?

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              The successor of Mono Touch – Xamarin – is rapidly growing in popularity among multi-platform app developers. We here take a look around the main benefits of using the Xamarin tool.   The debate will rage on as to whether it is easier to learn Objective-C (for iOS apps) or Java (for Android applications). The… Read More »

Libgdx vs Cocos2D-x – Which One Should You Go With For Android Game Development?

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              For developing games and apps on the Android platform, Cocos2D-x and Libgdx are by far the two most popular development systems. In what follows, we do an objective comparison between the two frameworks.   A week or so back, we had done a comparative study between Cocos2D and Unity3D, to find out which one of… Read More »

Tracking The Growth Of Mobile App Industry – 15 Points In 15 Minutes

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              The global mobile app market has got to be one of the most flourishing sectors in the domain of software technology. Android and iOS are by far the two most popular app development platforms. Let us here look back at some of the key events in the amazing growth story of mobile applications.   Close… Read More »

AppBoard Tuesday – Differences Between Android & iPhone App Development

AppBoard Tuesday - Edition 46
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Hussain Fakhruddin is the founder/CEO of Teknowledge mobile apps company. He heads a large team of app developers, and has overseen the creation of nearly 600 applications. Apart from app development, his interests include reading, traveling and online blogging.
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              1.3 million vs 1.3 million. Those are the approximate figures for the number of apps in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. The iOS platform would edge ahead in terms of app-engagement levels, while Android would ace when it comes to download figures (simply because there are more Android devices out there,… Read More »