How to Make your Way in Android App Development
With more than 80% of global market share, Android is one of the predominant mobile operating systems, which runs billions of apps on phones, tablets and smart devices. Among other reasons of such popularity is that Android devices are designed to fit every taste and budget. Some of the users do not even take the trouble to know what OS their phones run. While buying an up-to-date gadget, you will discover already installed apps that accommodated for convenient usage. Still,…
5 Reasons to Use HTML5 for Mobile App Development
For years, developers have been searching for ways to minimize development efforts and overcome the hurdle of having to create separate apps for each existing mobile platform. HTML5 is a well-known and widely utilized tool for development of mobile and web applications. Alongside with the existing native mobile development SDKs, which enable mobile developers to introduce various changes, cross-platform development tools have proven their efficiency and benefits as an alternative development method. HTML5 is the most popular language used in…
How to start mobile app design?
This article will walk you through the basics you need to know before going deeper into mobile app design. How to design a mobile app Get the full image of the client’s idea More often customers will not let you know what they need. It’s up to you to ask them. They need to know that their need will be satisfied the way they pictured it, yet they may experience considerable difficulties in how they see their future app. The…
Mobile Applications: What is the Difference between Native and Hybrid Apps?
Some debates are doomed to go on and on. The Native Vs. Hybrid debate is of the same nature. Upon hearing the question, some people are quick to divide into ardent followers and haters and fiercely defend their point. Several years ago when HTML5 was shyly trying to tell about itself, the discussion already tackled the advantages and drawbacks of the cross-platform approach. Multiple cross-platform tools such as Xamarin or Sencha with the help of well-known scripting languages as JavaScript…
Best Practices For Secure Enterprise Mobile Communication
SoftTeco’s own Serge Zenevich (CTO) has published an article on best practices for secure enterprise mobile communication in November’s special issue of CIO Review Magazine. Since the online version made it to the most popular section, we thought we should share it to our blog: While we hear more and more often about high-profile incidents involving hacked messengers and leaked call recordings, secure enterprise communication is becoming a hot topic in the field of information security. In the business world…
Apple Watch Apps: What to expect and what not to. Part One
As Apple Watch goes on sale tomorrow with already over 3 million devices preordered, many are still wondering what to expect from the watch in terms of the apps ecosystem. Many of the most popular iPhone apps have already developed an Apple Watch counterpart of their solutions. In this article we will go over some of these apps within Health & Fitness, Social and Finance domains and see what value we can expect them to add to the Apple Watch as…
The Age of Mobile Healthcare
Over the last few decades, computer technology had a considerable impact on the way we provide and receive health care. Now, mobile technology is helping doctors take medical examinations and treatments to the most remote areas where conventional health care is most scarce, but yet, most needed. In this article, we will examine just a few mobile apps that help doctors do their job wherever they are, whether fighting epidemic outbreaks in Western Africa, visiting a patient at home or…
Top Consumer & Enterprise Mobility Trends for 2015
2015 is promising to be a great year for those closely following the mobile world. With new technologies changing the way we do business and interact with the digital world, it is important to tailor the software they employ in a way that suits us best. In this article we will outline some of the most anticipated consumer & enterprise mobility trends that we think will impact the mobile world and spur innovation in the field of application development. Shift…
SoftTeco at BankIT: Exploring the Future of Mobile Banking
On the 19th and 20th of November, SoftTeco took part in the 11th annual BankIT conference. Spanning three large conference halls in a newly built hotel in the center of Minsk, the venue gathered over 1000 experts from IT and finance sectors. The conference was kicked off with presentations on the future of the region’s banking industry by the world’s leading analytical and research companies, also underlining the importance of the mobility of its services.
Android, Robotium check if soft keyboard shown. Introducing powerfull shell util class.
Hello Everybody, Today in the Robotium-developers group I have noticed that there are no “official” way to check that soft keyboard is shown. But we all know what happens when Solo clicks on the soft keyboard 🙂 Please check my solution for this useful check and use it anyway you like ^___^ Prerequirenments: 1) possibility to modify manifest file to add the permission: android.permission.DUMP 2) sometimes it is not possible to do dump due to device custom security policies from…
