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...