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Be Wary Of These 14 App Development Mistakes!

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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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              Mobile app development is not necessarily as straightforward as it is often made out to be. New developers, in particular, often end up making mistakes – which doom their apps. The following discussion lists some common errors in app-making that you have to steer clear of.   Good-looking mobile apps that do not have any… Read More »

SceneKit On iOS 8: Know The Basics

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              SceneKit has emerged as a strong and more user-friendly alternative to OpenGL, for 3D graphics rendering and visually customizing mobile games. This Apple tool was initially available only on the OS X platform, and was made available on iOS 8 in 2014.   Apple had first brought SceneKit – a powerful, multi-featured 3D graphics API… Read More »

AppBoard Tuesday – Things That Make App Clients…Angry!

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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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              Hey everyone, and a warm welcome to yet another (this, the 41st) edition of AppBoard Tuesday (ABT). Last weekend, our brainstorming session was all about client-satisfaction, and how to ensure it all the time. The first thing each of our app developers, graphic artists, animators and other staff did was submit two points each –… Read More »

Making Apps For iOS 8: 15 Things Developers Should Know

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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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              The new Apple iOS 8 platform has opened up a host of new opportunities for developers to make their mobile applications more customized and efficient. Let us here check out some interesting features of iOS 8, that app developers can make use of.   According to an Apple App Store Report (released mid-April), nearly 8… Read More »

JSON or XML – Which Data Format Is Better For 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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              JSON and XML are two language-independent data formats which are frequently used in coding for software and mobile app development. We have here done a point-by-point comparison analysis of the two tools.   Among app developers (web and mobile), JSON has emerged as the most preferred language tool for interchanging data. The surge in the… Read More »

Veeaie Keyboard app by Teknowledge

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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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                Not everyday do developers get the chance of working on apps that blend in fun and creativity in equal measure. At Teks, we have been fortunate enough to get a fair number of such projects over the years – but none of them were quite as unique and interesting as the Veeaie Keyboard app.… Read More »

AppBoard Tuesday – Why Should You Fuss Over App Quality?

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              How does a mobile app company project itself as ‘superior’ to its rivals? Unfortunately, most of them focus on the volume of apps they have already developed…that are already showcased in their portfolio. Fair enough, the ‘quantity’ of work does speak about the experience of a team of developers – but what about the ‘quality’… Read More »

The Flop Show Of Google Glass: Looking At Key Reasons

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              From the highs of being named among the best innovations, to its production being stopped – Google Glass has gone through everything between November 2012 and January 2015. We here deliberate on some likely causes for the failure of Glass.   Less than two and a half years back, Google Glass was hailed as one… Read More »

iOS 8.3 Releases: 14 New Features & Improvements

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              After four developer betas, iOS 8.3 finally arrived on Wednesday. We have here highlighted the major additions and improvements in the latest iteration of the iOS 8 mobile platform.   A couple of days back, Apple Inc. released the final version of the iOS 8.3 update. The first beta of the new version had been… Read More »

Working With Cocos2D-x: A Beginner’s Guide

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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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              As far as open-source, cross-platform game engines are concerned, Cocos2D-x would rank right near the top. We have here explained some terms and features of this tool, for new and existing users.   Cocos2d-x would easily figure among the most popular 2D game development engines. Newbies can, however, find it rather complicated – and a… Read More »