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iPhone OS 2.0 to iOS 9.2 – The BIG BEAR to MONARCH Journey

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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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              In 2007, Romania and Bulgaria became members of the European Union. Microsoft burnt its hands with the disastrous Windows Vista. Gordon Brown became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.   And the Apple iPhone was born.   Cut to a year forward (July 2008), and Apple Inc. released iPhone OS 2 – codenamed… Read More »

Apple Pencil: How Good Is The New Stylus In Town?

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              These are exciting times for Apple fans. The long-awaited 12.9” iPad Pro released a few days back – and according to projections, a whopping 2.6 million units of the device will be sold by the end of this year. According to software and app developers, the new offering from Apple will be arresting the slide… Read More »

15+1 Useful Tips For Mobile Game Developers

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              With over 10.4% share in total downloads, business apps were the second-most popular category (in terms of downloads) at the Apple App Store in September. Mobile educational apps for kids came in a close third. And which category occupied the top spot? You guessed it…mobile games, and that too with a 22.2% share of the… Read More »

Development Of Mobile Applications In Denmark: Key Trends & Figures

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              Among the Nordic countries, Denmark would rank only below Sweden, in terms of smartphone usage among people. According to a survey conducted in the second quarter of 2015, nearly 78% of the population in Denmark owned one or more smartphone(s), with a further 21% people having tablets (the corresponding figures were 82% and 18% in… Read More »

Why Should An iOS App Not Be A Clone Of Its Android Version?

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              Most successful mobile applications are available on both the iOS and the Google Android platforms. However, a close look at the respective versions would reveal subtle differences between the different versions of the same app. While simply cloning an iOS app for the Android platform (or the other way round) might appear to be a… Read More »

iOS 9 vs Android 6.0 Marshmallow: The Big Fight Continues

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              Thanks to the immense initial popularity of the iPhone 6S/6S Plus, the adoption rate of iOS 9 is pushing 60%, all within less than a month of its launch. According to an official release, this is easily the quickest adoption rate among new mobile platform versions. Google, on its part, has also been active –… Read More »

Xcode 7 for iOS App Developers: What’s New?

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                 Within a month of its release, the latest iteration of Apple’s integrated development environment – Xcode 7 – has received the thumbs-up from mobile software and app developers worldwide. Last week, Xcode 7.1 was made available (after 6 beta releases), with extended support for tvOS. In what follows, we will highlight some of… Read More »

11 Key Highlights From Apple’s September 2015 Event

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              Few software and gadget-launch events in the world attract as much attention from general users and techies alike, as the annual September events of Apple Inc. The event, rather unfairly dubbed as the ‘iPhone 6S-launch event’ (for there were many other ‘monster announcements’ from the Cupertino company), was organized this year at the Bill Graham… Read More »

Working With Metal On iOS 8: Know The Basics

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              Metal is a high-end accelerated graphics rendering API, used by many iOS developers worldwide. On the iOS 8 platform, some of the key features and advantages of Metal have been highlighted here.     Till last year, iOS game developers had to be overly reliant on OpenGL ES – which served as a virtual linking… Read More »

iOS 9: 16 New Features & Improvements We Would Like To See

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              Will iOS 9 be announced this June, at the Apple WWDC event? Will we have to wait a few more weeks for the official announcement? We will soon know the answers – and in the meanwhile, here’s a wishlist of the improvements and new features that the upcoming version of the Apple mobile platform should… Read More »