You’ve gone through all of the steps to make an awesome app that users will love and come back to time and again. Today is the day you release it to the Google Play Store. “Good luck little app,” you think as the developer hits publish. “Make me proud; you’ve only got about 1,400,000 other Android apps to compete with!” Getting your app discovered through the store is a growing concern for developers as the number of Android applications grows by the hundreds of thousands every year. Data collected from over the past few years* has shown that users primarily discover new applications through searching the app stores. While there are several other ways for your application to be found (word of mouth was second), app store visibility should not be overlooked. A user must know an application exists before they can download it. So, wat do?
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Apple recently pushed iOS8.3 beta2 to developers. It includes new languages for Siri and support for both wireless CarPlay and Google 2-step verification. Support for ApplePay in China will also be included. However, these have all been overshadowed by the new set of iOS8.3 emojis.
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AWS EC2 instances do not come preconfigured with a swapfile. This means that if your application runs out of free memory something's probably gonna crash.
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World Leading Mobile App Development Company Grand Opening in Conway to Include Visit from Governor Hutchinson
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When the first generation of the Moto X was first released, it proved you could have a fast, solid, and smooth user experience without having the top of the line specs available. This year, Motorola upgraded the specs for its second generation and the result is a phone that is arguably one of the best phones on the market today. This is the second generation of the Moto X.
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The mantra of Metova is to “build amazing mobile applications and amazing talent”. Half of the formula for creating an amazing application is beautiful design. This process is not something to be taken lightly (although our design team is quite a lively bunch). Like mad scientists, we study our craft and experiment on ways to stay ahead of the design curve. We listen intently to our clients, strategize a plan, and work closely with development to make sure the final product matches the vision.
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The Allure of Hybrid Mobile Apps
As cross-platform mobile app frameworks like Apache Cordova, Appcelerator, Sencha, and QT gain popularity, we’ve heard customers -- and even some developers -- praise cross-platform app development as the way to huge cost savings. This is a short-sighted view. Read More
Devise does do some password validation on its own, but that's mostly front-end or controller-based, not on the model itself. If you want to add additional password validation to your Devise models you have to be careful to add it in a way that accommodates how Devise stores and processes passwords. To wit: Devise never actually stores the raw password on the model, even though there's a field for it. That's because as soon as your model is saved with something in the password field Devise takes it out, encrypts it, and then stores it in the encrypted_password field.
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Transparency
In an earlier post, we discussed the three goals we have for our employees: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. To help create a foundation and guide employees down this path, there are several key ideas and guidelines we encourage. Legacy Metovians take what they have learned and found to be beneficial in their own successes, strip it down to the basics, and offer it to the newbs.
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