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January 2024

Balancing safety and accessibility in mobile apps

What is Appdome? How does it work? Is Appdome like a firewall for mobile applications? In this week’s episode of the Test Case Scenario, Appdome’s Senior Product Manager Kurt Dusek joins our panelists. They discuss the many incredible features of this cyber defense automation platform, how it detects and fights against cybersecurity threats, and more.

Understanding Android In-App Purchases: A Developers' Guide

In-app purchases, or IAPs, allow users to access certain features within our apps beyond the basic free tiers, while enabling us to monetize our products. Via the Google Play Store, we can sell a single product in all currencies, without creating a new one for each country. Up until now, app-builders looking to revenue have tended to favor in-app ads (IAAs) over IAPs, because ad functionality is easier to implement.

Mobile app security is just like housekeeping

What is Appdome? How does it work? Is Appdome like a firewall for mobile applications? In this week’s episode of the Test Case Scenario, Appdome’s Senior Product Manager Kurt Dusek joins our panelists. They discuss the many incredible features of this cyber defense automation platform, how it detects and fights against cybersecurity threats, and more.

Exploring Swift Extensions: Strategies for Efficient iOS Code

If you’ve done any work on iOS apps these last few years, you’ll know how concise and expressive the Swift language can be. And you may well have benefited from Swift extensions, a powerful mechanism that lets you, the developer, extend both your functionality and Swift’s, by extending any Objects and Structures you need. However, the variety and versatility of extensions does present teething challenges.
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The Evolution of Mobile Scriptless Testing

There are over six billion smartphone subscriptions on the planet*, a staggering figure considering there are about eight billion people, including children. At the same time, the volume and variety of mobile apps grow, whether for general consumers, business customers, or even to support organisations' internal productivity and collaboration. Mobile is now at the heart of how we live and work.

How to get app investors for your idea? - An Investor's Perspective

Just imagine… You wake up during the night with the desire to create an application….an application that could take the digital world by storm! But, suddenly you realize that you’re going to require funds to achieve this goal. So, what are the next steps, and how to get app investors to bring your brilliant idea to life?

Importance and Methods of UX Research

A great UX indeed feels like magic! Don’t you sometimes observe how effortless it feels when we surf any website or app with extraordinarily fantastic design, leaving us with the question, ‘How did they even manage to do that?’ Well, an excellent user experience starts by truly satisfying the demands of your clientele. You must carry out their particular task in a simple, seamless manner.

The iOS Developer's Playbook: Mastering SwiftUI Forms

In this article we’re going to examine how a SwiftUI Form can used in our SwiftUI apps. This will be a very technical article useful for any iOS developer, during which we’ll take a deep-dive into the code and then create a SwiftUI Form that combines a user profile with a settings screen. Table of Contents.

Cyber Defense Automation & Mobile App Security Explained

What is Appdome? How does it work? Is any particular mobile OS more prone to malicious threats? In this week’s episode of the Test Case Scenario, Appdome’s Senior Product Manager Kurt Dusek joins our panelists. They discuss the many incredible features of this cyber defense automation platform, how it detects and fights against cybersecurity threats, code obfuscation, common security threats, and best practices for mobile app security and more.

Upcoming changes to Google Play for developers

You may have heard the adage of “quality over quantity”, and it seems that Google is taking this saying to heart regarding the quality of apps developers submit to Google Play. Back in November 2023, Google published an article on the Android Developers Blog outlining their intent to improve the quality of Android apps in the Play Store. In this article, we’ll take a look at how things were, and what the upcoming changes mean for developers who want to publish to the Google Play store.

Webinar | Seamlessly Automate Functional Tests With Testsigma's Low Code approach

Automating functional tests helps verify application behaviour from a user’s perspective. However, given the complexity of modern-day functional tests, automating them using scripts adds a massive layer of ambiguity, creates enormous technological overhead and makes it difficult to maintain and scale tests across platforms. In this session, we discuss how to automate functional tests without writing ambiguous frameworks.

Understand Microfrontends: A Guide for Developers and CTOs

Microservices architecture has gained significant traction due to its ability to break down monolithic applications into smaller, independently deployable services. However, the benefits have often been lop-sided. While backend developers have realized numerous advantages, frontend adoption has been held back by tight coupling, slow development cycles and scalability issues. Microfrontends have emerged as a solution to these challenges by applying microservices principles to the frontend.

9-Step Mobile App Testing Strategy Checklist

The goal of any mobile product is to create an app experience that’s innovative and new. But you must accomplish specific, necessary steps between crafting a clear vision for your app and creating a mobile application. As explained in our step-by-step mobile application testing process, it’s imperative to understand and resolve any requirement contradictions before finalizing the development phase.

Tips to increase mobile app engagement

User engagement means how much a person uses an app and stays interested in it. It's super important for developers to give users good reasons to keep using their app. In mobile marketing, a big goal is to get more people engaged with apps. This can be done in different ways like sending them emails that they're interested in, making content that's just for them, and trying out new marketing ideas.

Swift Code Analysis: Integrating Sonarqube

SonarQube is an open-source platform that allows you to continuously inspect and measure code quality as you develop your project. It provides static code analysis for code issues, security issues, and code smells in various programming languages, including Swift. This helps development teams maintain and improve code quality by identifying and finding issues in the development lifecycle, if paired with a good testing methodology it can make a difference in your app quality.

Git Insights: You can ditch spreadsheet tracking and custom dashboards to track Git collaboration

Engineering Managers, Team Leads and Product Managers can now identify and address collaboration inefficiencies before they escalate. Using metrics such as pull request cycle time and merge frequency, you can pinpoint bottlenecks more quickly, quantifying Git collaboration and enhancing overall productivity.

A Comprehensive NextJS Router Guide for Developers

ReactJS is undoubtedly the most popular library for developers to build web and mobile applications. Its community is vast, so you get all the support you need as a developer while building applications. However, ReactJS is just a library for user interface development. It encourages us to build applications with the component architecture, which follows a tree hierarchy.

Top 8 Cross-browser Testing Tools For Mobile & Web

Admittedly, Chrome is the dominating browser with around 62.3% of market share as of Nov 2023, but if you only test your websites on Google Chrome, there is still around 38.7% of your users who visit your site on other browsers that you are missing out on. What if a bug occurs on those browsers? To ensure that no bugs went undetected, you need cross-browser testing. To test across browsers, you may need a cross-browser testing tool.

How To Create Maintainable #Selenium Tests with #Kotlin | Attila Fazekas | #automationtesting

In this instructive video, Attila Fazekas delves into the realm of Selenium testing with Kotlin, offering key takeaways to enhance the creation and maintenance of robust test suites. Learn the art of leveraging idiomatic Kotlin to craft Selenium tests that are not just effective but also maintainable and easy to comprehend.

Unlocking the Power of Swift Generics: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers

Swift is a high-level programming language developed by Apple, which first appeared on June 2, 2014. Swift is vast and complex, containing all the major features we expect in a modern programming language. Generics are one of the most fundamental tools in all of Swift, empowering us to write more abstract, reusable and clean code. With Generics, we can use different data types in the same functions and classes, with minimum assumptions.

The Key 10 Project Success Factors that You must need to know!

Have you ever wondered what sets successful projects apart from the rest? How do some projects consistently achieve their goals and deliver exceptional results while others fall short? Alas, it’s a common scenario in the project management world. While conducting the project’s primary objectives is undoubtedly important, other critical determinants like investing in experienced digital transformation services also determine the overall success of a project.

Web Development Vs App Development

Although both the worlds of web development and app development meet the same goal i.e. spreading awareness and utility of the business, they are quite fundamentally different from each other. Web development is establishing and maintaining an organization’s online existence through websites, whereas, app development is all about creating and maintaining convenient mobile apps for the business! To delve a bit deeper into the insights between web development vs app development, let’s explore!

What is the need of eCommerce and Why is it Important?

Are you curious about the future of eCommerce websites and what it holds for your business? Do you often feel the need of ecommerce website and parallelly think that investing in an eCommerce website wastes resources due to the competitive digital landscape? Or is handling an offline store more convenient than handling it online? We agree that these are some of the questions that usually come to your mind when you think of introducing your brick-and-mortar business into a digital space.