Insights about the app design and development ecosystem.
Giovannu CarúsPosted on Finding software developers isn’t trivial at all: sometimes, all you need is some directions from well-known sources. When we’re looking for great projects to collaborate, it’s the same thing. Throughout the last years, we’ve put together a list of directories that might ease the process of finding partners, which we wish had appeared in our research a long time ago:
Giovannu CarúsPosted on Last week, the Worldwide Developer Conference was hosting the freshest features of Apple’s platforms, like iOS and OS X, along with technical lab sessions, Apple Design Awards and other meetings about the tech industry. The WWDC keynote presentation happened a few days ago and we’ve gathered here at our office to watch what the Cupertino company had to show to us.
Giovannu CarúsPosted on Back in 2012, New York-based Foursquare opened a second office in San Francisco. The objective was to use the talent pool from the Silicon Valley, home for many venture capitalists and top coders. However, remote operations aren’t a given, as we could see many major companies falling back on this model – in the same period, Tumblr brought half of their new hires from the West Coast to New York, because of their loyalty with the Big Apple. A year later, Yahoo ordered their remote workers to go back in the office. And BestBuy’s CEO, Hubert Joly, also terminated the company’s Remote-Only Work Environment Program (ROWA), which encouraged productivity anywhere, anytime, as long as the job was done. In Foursquare’s case, the new office maneuver wasn’t a bad move, but they had yet to narrow the distance between employees working in the same project. So how did they do it?
Giovannu CarúsPosted on All over the world, many praise the advantages of outsourcing app development overseas, while others had a really hard time in their offshore projects. The question here is how to deliver your product faster to the market, spending the least amount of money possible in the process. To try answering this, we’ve listed three advices about a few constants on the subject:
Giovannu CarúsPosted on The first prototype of the Apple Watch was an iPhone with a Velcro strap, but the intention of the development team wasn’t to replicate the experience on your wrist. It was just a simulation, created for testing core functions of what Apple’s wearable could absorb from the smartphone. However, a great number of app developers didn’t catch the idea. They made apps as if the watch was a replacement for the iPhone and that was not the plan, at all.
Giovannu CarúsPosted on Apps aren’t just changing how we use our devices: they’re turning the tables on how we see the world. And it’s fast. Today, there are more than 1 million applications for both iOS and Android, the mobile economy is estimated to reach $2 trillion in 2017 and a lot of new possibilities are coming up with wearables and the Internet of Things. Continue Reading
Giovannu CarúsPosted on Fact: there is a myriad of mobile app development companies out there and choosing the right one is far from trivial. Another fact: it’s fairly common that customers of some of those companies get disappointed with the results. To help you through this choice, we’ve listed some points about the right partner and how to identify it.
Giovannu CarúsPosted on It’s been a while since our last post about iOS trends, so it’s time to check out the coolest looks for Apple’s system. In that occasion, we’ve only curated Objective-C libraries. In this post, however, we’ll also spend some time looking for Swift goodness too. Without further ado, let’s see our ten picks for the hottest libraries for iOS:
Giovannu CarúsPosted on Here at Cheesecake, we strive to achieve not only the best app performance, but also a better presentation. As we already covered for iOS, GitHub libraries can be life (and time) savers, and with Android’s competitive market, the smallest difference can be fundamental for engaging users. If you also want to work with the best open-source libraries to deliver a nice and responsive experience for everyone, check out the 12 hottest – and trendiest – Java libraries for Android:
Giovannu CarúsPosted on Hybrid apps are a very controversial subject when it comes to mobile app development trends. This topic has been receiving a lot of attention in the past couple of years, but even so the technology has never been massively adopted by the market. This post will explain why we still don’t recommend them (in 90% of the cases).
