Motorola MOTODEV have an interesting Webinar for enterprises considering native vs web apps. The discussion is high level and is therefore probably aimed at managers rather than developers and provides a great introduction to the issues that affect the choice of a native, web or hybrid approach. The MOTODEV Enterprise blog goes on to describe […]

Dimensional Research has a recent free report on The Impact of Mobile Devices on Information Security (pdf) that highlights some of the issues related to enterprise device security. The report is based on a survey of 768 respondents responsible for securing company access in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan.

The report shows the […]

Last night’s Mobile Monday was titled "Tablets Come of Age". Marek Pawlowski of PMN chaired a panel consisting of Claudia Romanini (Director Developer Relations, Barnes and Noble), Ben Scott Robinson (Creative Director, We Love Mobile), Hesham Al-Jehani (Product Manager, Mobile, ComScore) and Stuart Dredge (Freelance Journalist writing for Guardian apps).
The panel started talking about how […]

Are you an Android or iOS developer? Are you are thinking of becoming one? What’s the demand for developers in your country? Trovit has an interesting Android vs iOS infographic (png) showing the share of jobs across countries based on jobs posted on their site. Here’s just a small part of it…
 
However, don’t base your […]

I have previously commented on the Implications of App Use on App Design and questioned whether ’snacking’ is as equally applicable to tablet apps. I am seeing a growing number of people thinking about making their Android apps more tablet friendly as opposed to just providing a tablet-esqe view on what was a smartphone app. […]

One of the areas I commonly see startups underestimate is the download of non-photographic graphics. In its simplest form, download via http is trivial on all mobile platforms. However, the complexity manifests itself when you start to consider that different devices have different screen sizes and resizing graphics on the device is undesirable either because […]

If you are interested in Android vs iOS development you might take a look at uTest’s State of Mobile App Quality infographic. The infographic is based on data obtained from hundreds of thousands of comments on tens of thousands of apps.
The two app categories that have noticable differencies in satisfaction are games and tools. […]