Before you begin developing an application, it is important to know your audience and the environment your application will be competing in. What kind of applications are popular in the app store? How are applications being used? We will review some of the upcoming and past trends that can help you determine the best route for your mobile presence.
Read MoreLeading App Development Company Offers a Unique Work Culture Bringing Innovative Technology Jobs to Arkansas
Read MoreWe get it, designers. Searching for decent, relevant stock photography is tough. While it’s true a designer should rely more on creativity, and innovation than a good photo to make a project look stellar; it doesn’t hurt to have some images on hand. Stop wasting your life on shutterstock and check out these cool places. And the best part? They’re totally free.
Read MoreFRANKLIN, Tenn. and SEATTLE, July 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Metova, Inc., a world-class mobile application developer, today announced a strategic partnership with Conversioncraft, a next-gen digital agency that combines search and social media marketing with custom landing pages utilizing sophisticated click and call tracking to measure conversion, ROI and the cost of client acquisition.
Read MoreAndroid Unit Testing Implementation at Metova
Welcome back friends. Let's continue our discussion on Android Unit Testing from last weeks session.
Ever wonder how hard it is to implement authentication with Phoenix or how hard it is to roll your own authentication in Phoenix? Well in this blog post we'll find out!
Read MoreTesting is a key activity in any software development effort. Manual testing (e.g., with QA personnel) allows a lot of flexibility, but testing old features repeatedly can be mind-numbing and cause testers to miss things. Manual testing also usually involves a full end-to-end system, so it can be difficult to test edge cases and error conditions because they can be difficult or impossible to recreate on-demand in the real system.
Read MoreApple just announced their new UI testing features at WWDC, and it looks awesome. However, until you start building with the iOS 9 SDK, KIF is the top UI automation option. KIF is a great automated UI testing framework, but sometimes, when KIF tests fail on your continuous integration server (or locally when you weren't looking), it can be difficult to identify what went wrong. Luckily, KIF has a feature where it can take screenshots every time a test fails. This allows you to ensure that your UI automation testing is indeed automated. Let’s face it, if you have to sit there and watch your automation tests run so you can know what happened when it failed, it’s not fully automated.
Read MoreiOS 9 will be here in just a few months. Now is the time to take a look at your applications and get them updated! Keeping your application up to date is particularly beneficial on iOS. It has an incredibly high adoption rate with 83% of users running the newest system compared to Android’s 12%. Be proactive about these new changes and don’t let your app get outdated. Updating can help your application function more smoothly, be more visible to your users, and look amazing.
Read MoreToday at WWDC, Apple introduced the future of iOS, watchOS, and OS X. The keynote was several hours long and full of exciting new information such as Apple’s attempt to retake the music industry to a myriad of new uniformity updates across all 3 OSs. At times, the number of changes to apps, operating systems, and tools was almost overwhelming. We got past the noise with iOS developers Jack Bailey and Drew Pitchford. Here they have distilled out the basics on the particular changes and improvements that developers and customers alike should adopt.
Read More