Developer Tech

HTML5 looks like it’s losing the native app vs. mobile web war. According to a new Flurry study, users spend more than two hours a day interacting with apps and only about half an hour on the mobile web. From VentureBeat:

Unity, the hugely popular cross-platform development tool, has made its mobile tools free for small and independent studios.

While the US had long established itself as the de-facto market developers look to for superior monetization opportunities, it is becoming clear now that its burgeoning alter ego from the Far East – China, can no longer be ignored.

While the adoption of mobile commerce is growing rapidly, many developers have overlooked testing their apps and produce software with a slow, buggy checkout process.

Freemium is damaging the games, but do you know quite how much? Recently I had the fantastic opportunity to sit down with a group of game developers who spoke passionately about their development, the industry, and how freemium is hurting their creative ideas and real game innovation.

At this year’s IBM Impact 2013 conference in Las Vegas; the second largest employer in the US unveiled an API Management Platform to extend the company’s huge software presence.

Not stopping at a brand-new IDE, new testing features were announced by Google to help perform “staged rollouts” and beta tests with select users all from within Play’s Developer Console.

Probably Mountain View’s most well-known, well-loved product (perhaps after that search engine thing), Google Maps, has had a complete overhaul in user interface alongside brand-new APIs for you developers to play with! Let’s take a look.