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Mobile app localisation allows content within your mobile app to be translated into the user’s language, but it isn’t just that; it’s about adapting every aspect of your app to fit a user’s cultural norms. This process is crucial for organisations aiming for global reach, ensuring that an app is accessible and appealing to a ...
A cross-platform mobile app is an application developed to run on multiple mobile operating systems, such as iOS, Android, and desktop applications for windows and macOS, using a single codebase (rather than separate apps, one for each operating system). Cross Platform Apps are not suitable for all purposes, but they do come with specific benefits ...
You know what you want to create, and you know the people that are crying out for your app idea. Before you start down the path of building the next killer app, first let’s look at 3 tech concepts that you really need to understand. The Cloud. Your app idea may or may not need ...
More 6.64 billion people across the globe are using smart phones (and the apps on them). The majority of people use mobile applications for banking, searching for and ordering from restaurants, health, news, email and engaging on social media platforms. A mobile user interface is the graphical and usually touch-sensitive display on a mobile device, ...
What is React Native? React Native is a popular JavaScript-based mobile app framework that allows an app developer to build a natively rendered mobile app for iOS and Android. The framework lets us create an application for various platforms (Apple, Android and more) by using the same codebase. This reduces the cost of development for ...
The iOS operating system for Apple devices, and the Android operating system for Samsung and many other brands of mobile devices, are constantly being updated to provide tools to allow developers to implement new features supported by new hardware, and to improve the performance and security of apps on iTunes and the Google Play store. ...
Allowing the user of your mobile app to instruct it via Google Voice Assistant or Siri is a great way of making it easier for your user to get on with their day, and get the answers or action they need to accomplish done quickly, or when their hands aren’t free or glasses nowhere in ...
Over the past 6-12 months you may have noticed the following trends in mobile apps, and mobile devices: Biometric capability has improved and become more frequently incorporated into the hardware and operating systems of mobile devices, including unlocking through face recognition. Improved recommendations supported by artificial intelligence (‘AI’) – Spotify suggested music is an obvious ...
Contactpoint has been designing and developing mobile apps for our clients for over 8 years. The languages used to build apps have changed significantly over that time – both within a particular platform (aka “native apps“), as well as the languages used to build what was first known as “cross-platform” apps, which are now differentiated ...
Apple’s newest iPhones promise improved battery life. However, much of the improvement has been achieved through constraining background processes, rather than improvement in hardware. The implications on app development has been significant. This article discusses battery life management in light of recent mobile apps we have designed and built for our clients, which connect to ...
