Why Swift Flies for iOS Developers
October 30, 2014, by weimenglee
Now that the dust has settled somewhat on Swift, the new language on the block for developing iOS and OSX applications, we take a look at its impact and improvements over its predecessor, Objective-C. Apple claims Swift to be a modern, safe, and powerful language for developing for iOS and OSX. Just how powerful is Swift compared to the venerable Objective-C? And how does it make developing applications easier and safer?... Read More
Detecting Language Preference from the Browser with Accept Header
October 22, 2014, by Martin Clancy
Some time ago I was on a trip to Germany for the Smashing Mag event. Several websites I visited (including the world’s largest search engine) asked me to confirm my language preferences based on my current physical location. This struck me as a rather inefficient approach to setting language preferences. Especially given the language of the browser is readily available to web publishers as part of the HTTP request... Read More
iPhone 6: Is Apple Fragmented?
October 15, 2014, by Martin Clancy
“6 plus users are getting just the tiniest, tiniest taste of android hardware spec fragmentation hell right now” (@zpower) “Even after an hour of use I'm annoyed with apps that haven't been updated for the iPhone 6 screen size. Hurry devs!” (@isrob) Just some of the comments on the iPhone 6 release suggest that fragmentation woes have come to the iOS platform... Read More
Android forks: Why Google can rest easy. For now
October 9, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
With worldwide sales of phones based on Android forks on the up, and with big cloud competitor Amazon consolidating its move into the Android-based OS space race with the release of the Fire Phone, it’s time to look at Android forks. What is a fork? When is a fork not really a fork? And what do they mean for users and developers? What is an Android fork?... Read More
Roundup: Smashing Conference 2014
September 29, 2014, by paddy2k
Every year the team behind Smashing Magazine invites web professionals from all over the globe to join them in their home town of Freiburg, Germany for two days of talks and discussion about the web, hosted by Jeremy Keith. The Gothic surrounds of the Historical Merchants' Hall stood in juxtaposition with the cutting edge technologies under discussion by the attending web designers and JavaScript developers... Read More
Mobile web traffic: a dive into the data
September 23, 2014, by gosiasodel
We all know that web site traffic from mobile devices is increasing rapidly. But what does it actually consist of? What devices are more popular or how large is the fraction of "non-human" traffic? There have been many reports and analysis done on web traffic in general, but there are also a couple of good reasons to look inside mobile web traffic data, that is, traffic to websites optimized for mobile device use... Read More
Mobile Web has now overtaken PC in 40 nations, including India, Nigeria and Bangladesh
September 19, 2014, by mobiThinking
In 40 countries Webpage views from a mobile phone now outnumber those from a PC, according to StatCounter (August 2014). That’s just browsing with mobile phones; if you consider tablet computers to be mobile, then that number increases to 48 countries... Read More
Competition: win a free ticket for World Class Mobile Collaboration in Frankfurt December 3-4, 2014
September 12, 2014, by mobiThinking
mobiThinking has a free ticket to give away for December’s Mobile Collaboration conference in Frankfurt, Germany. There’s just one easy question to answer… Win a Ticket worth €990 for the World Class Mobile Collaboration 2014 in Frankfurt... Read More
Mobile-friendliness 101: Adding click-to-call links to a website
August 12, 2014, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Creating a site that works well across all devices can be a daunting task. However, there are some simple things that you can do that can have a big impact on a site's usability. Click-to-call is one such feature: it's simple, effective, and very easy to implement... Read More
What is m-commerce? How big is it really? And why any company who sells anything needs it, now
August 11, 2014, by mobiThinking
The stats tell us that mobile commerce (m-commerce) is big and growing fast. It all sounds very impressive when included in conference slides or presentations to clients/bosses. But closer analysis shows that analyst estimates vary massively and m-commerce is actually still only a small proportion of commerce generally, though is a fast-growing proportion of e-commerce. It isn’t the consumers that are the issue – research shows that they are keen to shop using their mobile device... Read More
