Sencha Space 1.2 : Application Management Platforms

The horizons of Cross Platform app development is broadening rapidly. More and more tools are now available in the market for smoothing and streamlining the journey from the conception of the idea to deployment of HTML5 apps. With HTML 5 application development booming, thanks to the enormous reach it promises and the exciting new tools[…]

Mendix Updates : Is it Time to Embrace Low Code Development Platforms?

Technology constantly finds a way to make your job easier. And if you are an application developer in this era of technological advancement, you will find the amount of effort and time an app demands is reducing exponentially. While it is still too early to say for sure whether this is good or bad for[…]

Windows 10 : The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

As the customary follow up on my article about my expectations and predictions for the new version of the Windows platform, in this column we will be looking at how the platform turned out. I will be reviewing it based on the technical preview Microsoft provided with their October launch of the beta software. For[…]

The Arrival of Android One : Is it Worth All the Fuss?

Earlier this year at the Google I/O, the announcement about Android One, a standardized and cheap smartphone took the fancy of both Android application developers and end users. Android developers saw this move as a big step towards unification of an extremely fragmented platform while users saw it as the arrival of the cheapest smartphones[…]

Adobe AIR : What is Good and Bad

Cross Platform application development is the need of the hour. There are a number of development platforms available to choose from and each platform offers you a different user base. Cross platform development tools allow you to port your code across platforms, while allowing you to retain individual platform specific UI and UX. Adobe AIR[…]

Facebook Development Platform : Is it still Relevant?

Facebook opened up their technology and tools for third party app developers way back in 2007 with the aim of broadening the reach of the social network. Facebook saw a unique opportunity in the market to allow app developers to use their platform and tools to build apps on, and in return collect analytics. For[…]

Twitter Fabric: Is Twitter Building their own App Development Platform?

Rumor has it that Twitter is all set to launch their very own app development platform, titled Twitter Fabric. It is aimed at helping application developers have quicker sign-in processes, sell ads and avail analytics more easily. It will also benefit users, who will now see more extensions of Twitter in a number of web[…]