App testing, no matter what OS you’re developing for, or how complex your app is; it is always a pain. It is as necessary as the phone that it will run on, but it can be time consuming and occasionally pushes projects past deadlines as app breaking problems are found, fixed, and then found again…. Continue Reading

Recently it was revealed that Smartphones had outsold feature phones globally for the first time ever. Modern mobile tech is moving, inexorably, across the globe. The Chinese market is growing at a, quite frankly, disturbing rate and India is also looking very good. In fact, mobile across the world, especially smartphone related tech, is growing… Continue Reading

It’s hard sometimes, as an app developer, to see where certain markets in the app market can go past a certain point. For example, you may want to create an app that finds local bus times for users, but there are hundreds of those already in existence; heck even Google Now does that these days…. Continue Reading

As the first business quarter of the year ends, in the mobile world there’s a clear trend appearing. Android, powered largely by Samsung and other top tier OEMs, is still increasing its power. In their first big release of the year, Kantar have found that Android accounted for roughly 64% of all handset sales in… Continue Reading

Despite phenomenal growth in the last few years, the Mobile industry has remained, in some areas, quite marginalised. As much as mobile ad revenue, for example, has expanded at a crazy rate; it still only accounts for less than 10% of the total ad revenue takings across all advertising properties. This has confused more than… Continue Reading

It seems like every time you turn around at the moment there is another Open Source mobile OS arriving on the scene looking to target the middleware and lower tier markets. Sailfish, Tizen, Alyun and of course, Mozilla’s Firefox OS. All of them are based around the HTML 5 platform rather than say, Linux like… Continue Reading

In recent times, Google have managed to become a very impressive force in bringing us interesting and sought after gadgetry. First, of course, there was Android, and well, we all know how that’s going. There was the Nexus 7 which helped kickstart the 7 inch tablet craze as we know it today, then the Nexus… Continue Reading

Android developers, we have a word for you. Fragmentation. Yep, that’s right, we’re going to talk about the much maligned downside to developing for the world’s largest mobile OS. If hearing the word fragmentation didn’t make you cringe a little, you’ve clearly not tried to release an Android app and keep all your various customers… Continue Reading

Here are Kumulos (Backend as a Service) we often talk about good app design (well, we say often, we know it’s more like all the freaking time, but seriously guys, it’s important). It’s one of the major keys in making a successful app on the market after all. But to design an app you need… Continue Reading

When you develop an app, you always have to make a few choices. First, what kind of app are you looking to make? Is it a game? A productivity app? An information app? How are you going to design it? What platform are you going to make it for? And, of course, how are you… Continue Reading