What is a Discovery Phase?

Nowadays it’s unreasonable to start a software development project without preliminary comprehensive analysis. The discovery phase should become an initial stage of any project you deal with. It’s an information-gathering procedure, which brings you an in-depth comprehension of the industry, the client’s business, and the target audience. It’s important to gain a profound understanding of the stakeholders’ anticipations of the product and the end-users’ expectations as to it. The main aim of the preliminary analysis is providing a quotation to the customer. For the purpose, you have to gather the maximum possible details about the client’s needs and put it in a separate document.

Everyone passionate about some idea is impatient to start with it. We are sure so you do when having an idea for an innovative mobile app. The worldwide market of mobile applications revenue grows at an overwhelming pace exceeding 20% rate annually. In 2018 the industry generated about 71 billion USD in revenue meaning that this sphere contains huge opportunities for new businesses and startups. However, an idea is not enough to get a profit. You often need to find app investors for your project to start.

According to Statista, the world’s mobile population exceeded 4 bln unique users in April 2019 already and almost 50% of global web page views are from mobiles. The majority of such traffic is generated by mobile apps. As of the 3rd quarter of 2019, there were 2.47 mln apps offered in Google Play and 1.8 million in Apple's App Store.

Hello everybody. Recently I’ve got a desire to master the Socket.IO library and create a chat application, to strengthen theoretical knowledge with practice, so to say. I actively use the technological stack which is implemented in the application in my work on commercial projects, but for Socket,IO.

Last year on the WWDC 2019 Apple has announced iOS 13, watchOS 6, macOS X Catalina and a lot more. Until now a lot has been said about all those shiny new things. A lot of people suggest latest WWDC to be as big step forward as the one during which Swift was introduced.

The growing population of the Earth makes innovations in the agricultural sphere more important than ever before and going digital is a means of meeting the challenges arising in the sphere. They are variable and the growing costs of supplies, labor shortage, and consumer preferences changes and requirements for sustainability and transparency are just a few to mention.

The year is approaching its end and we’ve got an idea to overview everything interested published in 2019.

Almost at the beginning of the year the article 5 Thoughts About the Future of Mobile App Development and the one about The Future Of Mobile Apps In The Next Decade were published. The latter predicts that by 2025, the mobile industry will have 5.9 billion unique mobile subscribers. It’s more than 70% of the expected Earth population, thus the content could not but drew our attention as a mobile development company.

SwiftUI — is a new method of User Interface creation with some really kewl features. It can be used for all Apple platforms and has all the delicacy and power of Swift language.

In this article I am going to make an introduction to SwiftUI, I’ll tell you about its possibilities and we’ll make a small app with a posts list together.

With cloud-based apps, virtual reality, and 5G technology sweeping through the world of mobile app development, app development can be a tough world to navigate. Thankfully, Stfalcon can help all your software development needs with our experienced team of iOS, Android, and web developers.

According to LinkedIn, Flutter mobile development is the fastest-growing skill among developers and according to the StackOverflow survey about the Most Loved Other Frameworks, Libraries, and Tools — it is in the top three favorite frameworks in 2019. We also did not stand aside and not only decided to try mastering the new product, but even managed to carry out a project and send it to production!