By Tejas Jasani Games are likely the most lucrative segment in mobile apps. However, making money on a mobile game app isn’t easy. However, if you know how to engage your user for a longer period of time, many of them will pay you not once or twice but potentially many times over the course […]
Is jQuery Too Big For Mobile?
By TJ Van Toll This question gets asked a lot, and I’ve yet to see a data-based exploration of this topic. Terms like “big” and “bloated” are relative terms; they don’t mean anything without numbers to back them up. The real question should be - “Does the size of jQuery adversely affect the users of […]
Mobile App Development - Tips for Getting Noticed
By Jen Looper It’s no secret that the apps market in 2013-14 is rapidly maturing. It’s no longer possible to launch an app and watch, carefree, as the downloads and money roll in. Increasingly, the devil is in the details - all the little things you need to watch out for as you prepare your […]
A Slight Obsession Over Page Speed
By Todd Anderson Lately, several projects (both personal and work-related) have ignited an increasing obsession over page load speed and performance. I wanted to highlight a few tools and resources I find useful in analyzing performance and delivering web pages in production with optimal load time. Where’d this hat come from? Over the past decade […]
Parallax UI for PhoneGap and Mobile Web Apps
By Andrew Trice Device motion and accelerometer programming interfaces have been around for years now, but up until iOS 7 we saw minimal use of them on most mobile devices. Sure there was a “level” app, or some gimmicky games, but not much to be seen for widespread use. iOS 6 started to introduce user […]
Mobile-Friendly Mapping for PhoneGap Apps
By Rob Lauer One of the first and most enduring features of mobile devices was, and continues to be, mapping. The ability to locate yourself on a map with the tap of a finger, anywhere in the world, has arguably influenced adoption of smartphones and tablets as much as any other feature. As map consumers, […]
How Putting Ads on Mobile Apps Can Lose Money - A Case Study
By Alex Genadinik One of the most common ways to make money with mobile apps is to publish ads on the apps. This can work very well for many types of apps. In fact, publishing ads is one of the few ways to monetize a user who has no credit card, which is a common […]
Building a Game with In-App Payments for Firefox OS
By Rob Lauer The dawn of the HTML OS has seen the rise of numerous players backed by some industry heavyweights. Tizen (Samsung and Intel), Chrome OS (Google), and Firefox OS (Mozilla) are arguably the three biggest operating systems in this realm today. They are all unique in their implementations, but the tie that binds […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build – Using the Notification API
By Brian Rinaldi This is the 7th and final part in the series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here, part 5 here and part 6 here. The files for the sample app are available here. In this final step, we will add a finishing touch to our application and use another PhoneGap API […]
Create Your First Mobile App with PhoneGap Build - Using the Storage API
By Brian Rinaldi This is part 6 in an ongoing series. You can find part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here and part 5 here. The files for the sample app are available here. Even though our app is now looking and feeling more like an app, the truth is that everything up to this […]
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