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What’s New In iOS 9.2?

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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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              At the start of November, the estimated adoption rate of iOS 9.1 was nearly 67% (according to official App Store Distribution release). The figure is impressive, and in keeping with the fast start that the iOS 9 platform has got off to. The number of iPhone users worldwide making the move to iOS 9 and… 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 »

App Store Optimization: A Guide For Developers

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              Are you familiar with the concept of ‘zombie apps’? Nopes, they are not some sort of mobile games – these apps are the ones that have little or no visibility at all at the app stores. As per latest figures, nearly 51000 apps are downloaded by people (from Google Play and Apple iTunes combined) per… Read More »

How Can You Correctly Validate Your App Idea?

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              It is no longer as easy to hit on a good app idea as it was even 3-4 years ago. Both iTunes as well as Google Play Store has literally hundreds of mobile apps belonging to the same category/genre – and it is nothing short of a challenge to think up a concept that is… 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 »

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

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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 »

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 »