When it comes to offering a mobile payment solution to customers, watching and waiting is no longer an option for businesses who hope to remain competitive. The market is primed for mobile payments. The number of smartphone users will surpass 2 billion in 2016, and with global mobile payment transaction volume forecasted to… Continue reading The Market is Primed for Mobile Payments
Month: April 2015
Voila Hub App Honored in the 19th Annual Webby Awards
Toronto, ON, Canada (via PRWEB) April 20, 2015 Voila Hub, an award-winning mobile app design, and development studio, announced today that its We365 Social Mobile App for Free The Children has been selected as an Official Honoree in the 19th Annual Webby Awards in the Mobile: Best Visual Design – Function and Mobile:… Continue reading Voila Hub App Honored in the 19th Annual Webby Awards
Using J2ObjC for Cross-Platform Development
What comes to mind when you hear the words “cross-platform project”? Do you get shivers up your spine? Remember those long nights trying to get all the platforms to follow the same business logic? Cross-platform projects can have up to 70% of code that gets duplicated for each platform. Don’t you wish there was… Continue reading Using J2ObjC for Cross-Platform Development
Using a Horizontal ListView to Display Images
Being able to display images in a slide show is a very common feature in apps. There is a good chance that you will at some time – if you haven’t already – need to implement this feature, but perhaps you haven’t found any good examples of how this is done using the Cascades… Continue reading Using a Horizontal ListView to Display Images
We365 app selected as Official Honoree in the 19th Annual Webby Awards
We’re excited to announce that our work has been recognized by The Webby Awards! The We365 app we developed for Free The Children has been selected as an Official Honoree in the 19th Annual Webby Awards in the Mobile: Best Visual Design – Function and Mobile: Social categories. About the Official Honoree… Continue reading We365 app selected as Official Honoree in the 19th Annual Webby Awards
Maintaining User Stories & The Difficulties With Change
The Necessity of User Stories In agile scrum software development, we write user stories to capture the requirements of an individual feature within a software project. User stories are an effective way of capturing the necessary functionality of an entire product. Typically, stories should follow the format of “As a <role>, I would like… Continue reading Maintaining User Stories & The Difficulties With Change
Better QA: Server and App Promotion Process
When you are providing a live service to active users, it is dangerous to update production without a safe process. Having a well laid out and process that is closely followed will help ensure your users are not disturbed by any updates you make. Here is the process we use for websites and… Continue reading Better QA: Server and App Promotion Process
Better QA: Linear vs. Integrated QA
Effects of the Linear QA Process Everybody’s been there. You’re working on an important project with a stringent deadline. You’ve hit a few snags along the way, but it looks like you’ll deliver on time. Just one week left to devote to finding and fixing bugs. But then things start going badly. All mistakes,… Continue reading Better QA: Linear vs. Integrated QA
Better QA: Testing on Android – Accounting for Device Differences
With the proliferation of many different types of mobile devices – from various smartphones to tablets, to phablets – one significant challenge faced by developers is ensuring that their applications function correctly across all of them. To achieve this goal, app developers and their QA teams need to account for the many shapes, sizes,… Continue reading Better QA: Testing on Android – Accounting for Device Differences
Better QA: Using Automated Testing For Mobile
What is Automated Testing? As teams seek to deliver better products and increase internal efficiencies, automated testing is often an option that is tabled. As the name suggests, automated testing is the process of using a program to test websites, applications, and even other programs. Automated testing is useful to QA teams because it… Continue reading Better QA: Using Automated Testing For Mobile