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Make An iOS App With Xamarin: Steps & Tips

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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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                 Even before it was acquired by Microsoft in February this year, Xamarin was a fairly popular framework for cross-platform mobile app development. The total number of developers worldwide using the tool had touched the 1 million mark last year itself (from almost 125 countries). The fact that Microsoft plans to make the coding… Read More »

Android Studio: 14 Tips To Get The Most From The IDE

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              A couple of months back, version 1.5.1 of Android Studio released, a few days after the first preview of v.2.0. The IDE, which comes with Gradle support, is already considered to be better, more user-friendly than Eclipse (with Apache Ant plugin) by most Android app developers. However, first time coders might find it slightly challenging… Read More »

Making An iPhone App – Know The Basics

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              The year is drawing to a close, and it has been another big one for app developers working on the iOS platform. In 2014, developers earned more than $10 billion from the applications they made, with New Year’s Day witnessing record-breaking downloads from the App Store. This year’s figures are expected to be a couple… Read More »

The Basics Of watchOS 2 App Development: Key Points

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              On the 9th of December, Apple announced its ‘Best Of App Store’ list for 2015. ‘Dark Sky’ – a weather based application – bagged the ‘app of the year’ award for Apple Watch (for iPhone, ‘Periscope’ was the winner). The Cupertino company has also already released the watchOS 2.1 update – and initial reviews of… Read More »

Top 15 Tips To Make Big Data Applications

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              The market for data-driven mobile applications is getting bigger – there are no two ways about it. By the end of this year, the global big data app market will be a $17 billion industry (as per IDC survey) – a mighty impressive figure, considering that the value of this market was only $3.3 billion… Read More »

Xcode Vs AppCode – Which IDE Is Better For iOS Development?

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              A couple of weeks back, Apple released the fourth beta of Xcode 7.2. However, that was not the only big news in November related to integrated development environments (IDEs) for the iOS platform – with the latest iteration of the Java-based AppCode (version 3.3.1) also coming out a week earlier. While Xcode is, of course,… Read More »

Improving User-Experience: A Guideline For Mobile App Developers

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              Every day, an average smartphone-user spends more than 2 hours and 40 minutes with his/her mobile device. More tellingly, for nearly 87% of that time (which also comes to more than 2 hours), (s)he uses mobile applications. With the total number of available apps rising rapidly – the combined app count at the App Store… 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 »

Swift 2: 15 New Features For iOS Developers

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              In October, Apple released Swift 2.1 – the latest stable version of the programming language that is fast gaining in popularity among iOS app developers worldwide. Swift 2 builds on the original version of the language, and offers a fair number of additional features and functionalities to aid programmers working with it. The second beta release… Read More »