Cross platform mobile development

Native or the web is the hot topic of argument between confounded decisions makers and developers. Considering the pros and cons of evolving technologies and analyzing its substantial effect over business performance spawns countless arguments. With the entry of cross-platform app development, a new player has entered this longstanding debate. Cross platform mobile app development allows you to use a single code base whilst target multiple platforms; instead of writing native codes for each platform separately. After opting for cross-platform mobile development, you as an Entrepreneur are entitled to a reward or a prime benefit-"build once and get the app deployed on multiple platforms". Nevertheless, cross-platform apps come with a few drawbacks, they do not adopt high graphics with additional fluidity and they consume a substantial amount of memory. Startups are using cross-platform mobile app development as a tool to penetrate the market and so replacing it with the native apps. … [Read more...] about Resolving Entrepreneur’s Dilemma—Native or Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

Growing in status as the second biggest gaming exhibition in South Korea after G-Star, yesterday marked the end of PlayX4 in Gyeonggi-do, the most populous province in the country. While not many major announcements were made, Thailand-based games publisher Electronics Extreme held a signing ceremony with Korean developer Softnyx for a new online game, New Gunbound. You read it right, a new Gunbound title is in the works, and there is already a publisher for the Southeast Asia region. Here are some cool details! • New Gunbound is developed by the original team at Softnyx and another Korean studio known as Rocket Punch Games. • New Gunbound is developed as an official sequel to the original Gunbound. • Electronics Extreme will publish New Gunbound in 10 Southeast Asia countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. • The game will can be played on both PC and mobile devices (multi-platform) and supports cross-platform (PC and … [Read more...] about – Cross-platform sequel announced for Southeast Asia

As this year’s GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just multiplayer. We attract the “alone together” people more than the “FPS hero” crowd in our comments section for a reason; MMOs are virtual worlds. They’re a digital space inhabited by other people. We may not talk to them, but we watch and listen. Maybe we engage, maybe we group, maybe we guild. We do stuff in a shared environment because we think, or hope, we’re part of a larger system. And this is why we need to talk about cross-platform communities and the strength of in-game, embedded community tools. As social media rises and mobile crashes against our PC fortress, increased console cross-play should be a reminder that we’re all gamers, and (some) developers are finally getting that. Bringing people together The panel on bridging cross-platform communities, held by Eric Cleaver (NetEase Games), … [Read more...] about GDC 2018: Bridging and embedding cross-platform online communities

I recently launched my first iOS app, and it is an achievement that gives me great pride. I am not an iOS developer, but I do have a team of highly talented developers who take care of all the development work for me. The role that I played in the development of the ShoutMeLoud iOS app was in planning the app, deciding what features it would offer, and marketing and promoting the app. Since this is my first iOS app, I have been learning everything an iOS app publisher should know. I will continue to share what I've learned in the coming days, but for now I want to point you toward some of the best resources available to you for the purpose of developing your own iOS app. The following websites and tools will help you with every phase from the very beginning right through the marketing and promotion phase. It has taken a fair amount of time for me to pull this resource together for you, and I intend to continue to update … [Read more...] about 11 Useful Websites & Best Tools For iOS App Developers

Are you interested in building the next viral mobile application? Did you know you now need to get in either 23K free daily downloads, or 950 paid users each day (approximately $12K daily revenue) to be in the top 50 iPhone apps, according to TechCrunch. How do we do even begin to think about creating viral mobile apps that can achieve this level of success? The easy answer is we take lessons from those who have successfully launched mobile apps in the past. You do not need to reinvent the wheel. 1. Make sure your app works on multiple platforms. This article will not discuss the Android versus iPhone debate that users love. When you are developing an app, you can create it for one specific platform, but in today’s segmented market you probably need to create an app for both major platforms, or better develop it for all major Smartphone OS. The reason for this is simple. Check out mobile phones manufactures, and you will see the vast majority of phones exist in both platforms. … [Read more...] about What I Learned After Building A Viral Mobile Application