Developer Tech

Although many fellow British journalists cannot wait to get their hands on the eyewear augmenting information in our lives courtesy of Google and partners, not everyone appears to share the same amount of enthusiasm – and the cause appears to be lack of style.

Many developers rely on in-app advertising to fund development; from initial release through to expansion. Windows 8 developers have been wondering, where has their ad revenue has gone?

Nginx, the world’s third most popular web server, has just released version 1.4 supporting the speedy ‘SPDY’ protocol making the web faster, alongside a whole host of new features.

adeven’s CTO and co-founder, Paul H. Müller hops on his soap box to talk about the smart way of measuring your app’s user sessions.

Analytics firm Flurry has released its latest report on device proliferation, which shows a steep upward curve in terms of the number of device models a dev needs to support if you want your app to be fully optimised. The research, as seen in the graph below, found that if you want your app to cover 80% of total active devices, you need it to be compatible with 156 different models.

Mobile technology service provider Kii has launched Kii Analytics, which claims to be unique in that it is the first fully customisable in-app analytics tool on the market. The analytics tool can be worked in conjunction with mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) Kii Cloud – also released today out of beta – allowing developers to run custom metrics intuitively and with flexibility.

All those app reviews... all that anger, vitriol and generally bad spelling and grammar. Can you really be bothered to wade through it to extract the insight? Don't worry, Apptrace has summarised it all into a handy statistical graph.

According to analytics experts Flurry, the fastest growing iOS and Android markets is China, by a considerable distance.