Anton
Team Lead Mobile
Team Lead of the Mobile Development Team, Senior Android developer (over 8 years of experience). A Sportsman
There’s nothing more desirable than making an app go viral. Virality is gradually becoming a synonym of success. But what makes some apps go right to the top charts? We tried to figure it out in this article.
Making money on a mobile app may be quite profitable if organized properly. According to Statista, in 2023, the annual global app downloads are expected to reach 299 billion, marking a substantial increase from the approximately 247 billion app downloads worldwide in 2020.
In the world of iOS development there is a well-known JSQMessagesViewController library which helps iOS-developers to implement UI chat in their applications easily. Unfortunately, Android developers are deprived of such a wonderful tool.
When you order the application development, after choosing a platform (Android, iOS, or both) you should also make a decision about its back-end (server side). In this article we will talk about an alternative to the development of back-end from scratch, namely BaaS Backendless, which is of that type of services.
Sooner or later every Android developer accumulates a fair amount of ready-made solutions and decides that it would be great to share them with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, most of us never get down to it since every solution should be turned into a separate library and put into a separate open repository.
The Last Outpost mobile game got a warm welcome from players and we couldn’t wait to offer them more. We had a lot of ideas so we asked participants of our Facebook community to vote for the best sketches. And today we are happy to announce that 2nd and 3rd episodes are available on Google Play and App Store.
How to save data for your mobile application? There’re three possible ways: Shared preferences/User defaults, files and databases. When choosing which one to use you should take into account the volume of data your app will work with, mobile data type and what exactly you’ll be doing with the data.
Not so long ago we had a hard time choosing which engine to use, Unity3d or Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). So, I’ve decided to write a small article about that. Here briefly describe pros and cons of each engine, and also share the arguments that affected our final choice.