our posts tagged “mobile”

mobile development: finding the right solution
Sean Sparkman (@seansparkman) & Paul Zolnierczyk (@paulish29)
april 28th, 2020

Many mobile phones

With an estimated 3.2 billion smartphone users in 2019, the mobile app industry is growing and not showing any signs of slowing down. Along with this growth in smartphone usage comes increased demands and expectations from end users. Apps need to use the latest smartphone features, be fast & easy to use. This is further complicated with the need to develop for both Android and Apple smartphones as well as tablets. For someone with an app idea, considering all these factors can be a bit overwhelming. This is where Infinity Interactive steps in. Infinity has extensive experience in the mobile app arena and can help you identify the best approach for your app and target audience. Today, companies are not just restricted to developing a native mobile app. They can also build mobile web apps, progressive web apps, and cross-platform apps. This post will cover the pros and cons of each with the hope of giving a clear path for taking an app idea into app reality.

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Uno Platform
Kenzie Whalen (@knz_whalen)
october 25th, 2019

Uno Logo

In the beginning, there were iOS, Android, and the Web. Entirely separate platforms that had to be developed as such.

Then, along came Xamarin. Developers could write iOS and Android apps using a single codebase, but we were still on our own for Web development.

Now, Uno has emerged. Building on top of Xamarin, it gives us the power to write iOS, Android, Web, and even UWP applications using shared logic and UI!

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A Dashboard for My Apartment
Shawn M Moore (@sartak)
march 6th, 2015

I originally bought my iPad back when tablets were becoming a fad. I had expected to use it for everything from reading ebooks to playing elaborate new games. But no, it has been sitting idle, collecting dust, for years. Even the promise of a shared, coffee-table web browser has fallen flat. Whenever there's a task to be done, I instead reach for my laptop or my phone. After all, as phones get larger and more capable, and laptops get lighter and extend their battery life, the sweet spot that tablets offer gets squeezed out from both above and below. So for the past year or so, my usage has been limited to ordering food online with friends, passing the iPad down the couch. But now I've finally figured out the perfect job for it. I've mounted it right next to my front door. My previously-unused iPad now serves as a dashboard and control panel for my apartment.

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Xamarin: An exciting option for cross-platform mobile development
Sean Sparkman (@seansparkman)
january 13th, 2014

HTML 5 has proven to not be the silver bullet everyone hoped for. By their own admission, Facebook's biggest mistake was betting on HTML 5. While it works well for content, anything more than that needs native performance. Mobile users demand native performance. The first few seconds of any mobile user's experience is the most important. Users will uninstall or never again open an app if they are dissatisfied in those crucial first moments. So what is the answer if it's not HTML 5? There's a case to be made that it's Xamarin.

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