Connected TV, Experience Design
These days customers interact with multiple web and mobile products and expect to receive seamless experience across the channels. Considering the importance of omni-channel user experience, brands are not only aiming to build products for web and mobile, but also foraying into Smart TV space to connect with millions of viewers, provide...
Unveiled in September 2015, the fourth generation Apple TV sets the bar in being new-age and advanced among the range of smart TVs. Ever since its introduction, it has successfully managed to make the cut as one of the most luxurious TV streamers in the market. The set top box console delivers a quality that boasts of a very...
App thinning is a concept for modern day interactive apps where there are a lot of resources. The App Store and OS install the app according to the device, with a minimal footprint. This helps in making the app which occupies less space, are easy to download and make use of all features. Faster downloads and minimum space occupancy gives...
We have clearly witnessed a sharp inclination towards providing a superior customer experience by most companies within the last couple of years. Some companies plan on investing huge funds in glorifying their customer retention strategies; while some others plan on scaling up their technological integration. An important factor, inter...
A report by Gartner says that 40% of mobile app development projects would make use of cloud-based mobile back-end services in 2016. With mobile back-end as a service, known as MBaaS, 70% of the time dedicated to backend development can be reduced and more focus be given to frontend development. WHAT is MBaaS? MBaaS is a pre-built...
In any web or mobile application, there are certain functions that are widely used such as push notifications, social sharing, etc. Each of these functions has its own API and needs to be integrated with an application individually from the back-end. This is a time consuming complex process. This is where mBaaS (Mobile Back-end as a...
Android Auto was announced on June 25, 2014, at Google I/O 2014. The Android Auto mobile app was released on March 19, 2015. It is a part of the Open Automotive Alliance(OAA), which was announced on January 6, 2014, and is a joint effort with 28 automobile manufacturers and mobile tech supplier Nvidia. Hyundai became the first...
Appium is an open source tool for mobile application. It is a bridge or we can say in simple terms it is a mediator between PC and mobile. It supports three types of mobile application i.e. native, web application and hybrid. Native Applications are developed for use on a particular device or platform. It is installed directly on a...
Android RecyclerView was introduced in Android 5.0 Lollipop. It is much faster and memory efficient than Android ListView. You can download sample application source code for this tutorial from here. A RecyclerView can cache previously used view for a specific adapter position for later reuse to display same type of data again...