Gone are the days when applicants had to visit multiple offices with their resumes tucked in their hands with little to no guarantee of whether it would ever pass the reception area.  In today’s time, everything from searching for a new job to applying for one and scheduling the interview happens on mobile. Mobile applications like Indeed, Monster.com, etc. have made it a matter of a few clicks to reach the inbox of a dream company.  This ease and comfort that the job search app domain offers has helped in not just shaping a concentrated market but have also become the reason behind the spikin ..read more

AsyncTask is an abstract Android class created to simplify the communication between background activities and the app’s UI. In simple words, it helps Android apps to control the main UI thread in an efficacious way. It is due to functionalities such as these that made it popular among developers.  It worked well for many years since its launch but gradually stopped performing like it used to. One of the most crucial and necessary functions applications need to perform is to fetch information from a remote server. These requests sometimes take a lot of time so it is always preferred to do it a ..read more

People couldn’t have been more wrong when they thought they have seen it all with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Clearly, they did not expect Snapchat to blow their minds. Though the birth of the idea happened in the mind of Reggie Brown, the journey of Snapchat began in the living room of Evan Siegel in September 2011.  Just like the teenagers of this digital age, they wanted to find shortcuts and innovative ways to share photos and videos in a way that was not explored yet. So, they ideated an application and named it ‘Picaboo’ which later came to be known as ‘Snapchat’. No one anticipat ..read more

Google announced app defense alliance to prevent malicious applications enter the Android mobile app market.  Seeing the growing interest of hackers and cyberattackers into mobile apps holding sensitive user information, the tech giant has taken major steps towards security. It introduced Play Store Protect program that helped to delete more than 7,00,000 applications by 2017 and is scanning over 50B application everyday to deliver a secure app experience. The team also started the service of Build Test Suite (BTS) that scans the preinstalled Potentially Harmful Applications (PHAs) across soft ..read more

We are thrilled that you came up with a breakthrough idea for a mobile application. So, what’s next? Building the app and diving right into the market. Well, it sure is. But every great project commences with a brief. It is a prerequisite and plays a fundamental role in deciding how your project will turn out in the end. For a mobile app development project, writing a brief is a good starting point. So, if you’re still confused about drafting a brief because it seems like a task, we are here to tell you why you shouldn’t skip this step. And if you are already set on writing one, we bring to yo ..read more

Google backed Flutter SDK, has been enabling developers in the creation of native apps for iOS, Android, and other platforms for some time now.  And now, with the release of version 2.6, Flutter’s underlying programming language, Dart is also gaining the capability to develop native apps for Linux, Windows, and Mac – taking Flutter app development to a new level.  Let us look at all the up and coming Flutter 2.6 elements announced yesterday on Dart’s Medium page. Dart native executables Since the past few years, Google has kept a concentrated focus on ensuring that working on Dart language bec ..read more

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There was a time when adding too many elements into our mobile apps was a norm. But, with time, user behavior has changed.  Users have started inclining towards minimal interactions and elements; hoping to interact with limited things while enjoying the same level of services.  This changed need, in turn, has made it imperative for mobile app designers to  incorporate the concept of minimal app design and build engaging designs with limited elements.  In this ..read more

Nearly a year after it was announced by Adobe team. Photoshop is finally available on iPad. Termed as ‘Real Photoshop’, the 1.0 version of Photoshop on iPad comes loaded with a string of features that would make designers switch between desktop and iPad anytime.  It is not just the easy cross-platform ability that has made designers excited but also its new name. Rather than calling it the official ‘Photoshop for iPad’, the Adobe Creative Cloud team has named it ‘Real Photoshop’.  The reason behind this chic new name is that although the app is meant for streamlining workflows and perform ligh ..read more

Flutter platform and a Minimum Viable Product strategy are two elements that have been finding themselves a part of every conversation where time saving mobile app development strategies are discussed. In this article, we are going to look into both of the – now time-tested – approaches together. We will try to establish what makes their combination ideal for startups looking to test the waters before full-fledged app launch. We will deep dive into why startups should look into the strength of Flutter and MVP to initiate their mobile journey. But before we look into their combination, let us l ..read more

Just like everyone out there right now, you must be all confused about what Apple is trying to pull off with launching various updates back-to-back. First, it was iOS 13.1 and just when we expected iOS 13.2, we unanticipatedly got iOS 13.1.2 instead and that too followed by iOS 1.1.3.  But now, iOS13.2 has finally arrived. Phew! iOS 13.2 version has come with its own advantages, for example – added support for Deep Fusion camera stick in iPhone 11, new AirPods Pro, several new emojis, and last but not least, all the core features of iOS 13. Now, let’s discuss the thing you came here for in the ..read more