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How To Turn a Website Into a Native Android or IOS App? It goes without saying that the new era of mobile applications has come and every successful business can hardly ignore it. The increasing importance of apps in sales and marketing makes a lot of website owners think of moving most of their processes to a mobile platform. Which option is best - a website or an app? Every e-commerce platform owner happens to face this dilemma sooner or later. The statistics offered by Smart Insights prov

Same like every house has a solid basement, every software project, has a software architecture it is built on, and each project has its own app structure. The types of architectural patterns may vary, but there are 4 most commonly-used ones - the ones whole IT world continuously criticizes but keeps using at the same time: MVC, MVP, MVVM and Viper (the last one as iOS architecture pattern mostly). The comparison of these patterns and choosing a better fit for each Swift-written project’s case w

Let’s face it that the on-demand services now, are literally everywhere, changing each aspect of our everyday life. Even, surprisingly enough, the sphere of chores. The question of making a laundry app and also the cost to develop a laundry app are the ones we raise here. Our daily routines used to involve loads of time spent on housework: cooking, cleaning, doing your laundry. Though, a decade ago, when the pace of life has increased significantly, the question of chores’ delegation rose.

It's not about huge, ridiculous things that we need to do. It's about tiny things that can make a huge amount of difference. Paul Bennett, TED-talk “Design is in the details” It is not only about the devil who hides behind the details - it is also about the design itself. We often hear that the less design - the better, and the top-meeting our expectations design is the one which is totally unnoticeable to a user it interacts with. But what are the best practices for ux design these

Every innovative idea that enters the world’s tech market today needs a support - in either acceleration or incubation forms; nonetheless, these two often get confused and mixed up. What is the difference between business incubator and accelerator, and which one is a better fit for your case? This article highlights the key figures of accelerator and incubator comparison. Spotify, Product Hunt and Uber - what do these three have in common? The answer is at your fingertips - these 3 amazing

Mobile apps epidemy is here, knocking at every businesses door, but does it work same for all businesses? How essential native mobile application is for your small or midsize business and what are the advantages of a mobile app for business? This article gives some answers to these questions. The world we live in is rapidly changing year after a year, and websites that used to be the progress indicators, are now gradually going to dogs as something vintage and a bit out-of-date. Therefore,

18 years ago a movie called “Matrix” saw the world for the first time. Remember, back in the days, in the remote past, in the year of 1999, when you were gazing at a computer hacker Neo, learning from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality, would you dare to think Matrix (the most sophisticated simulated reality in cinema might turn in real one day? For better or worse, it is not the question of big importance at the moment - as it is already here. The Future. The Virtual Reality

An article mained to describe all the main beauties of the two languages for Android mobile development - Kotlin and Java respectively. The article dates back to the 10th of March, 2017, and at that time Kotlin has not yet become an official Google's language. When you choose developers to work on your custom Android application, a certain technology they use is of essence for you. The two most commonly used languages for Google now are Java and Kotlin (although it still lacks official

An article aimed to highlight the main beauties that programming language Swift has. Here I would love to start from a quick quiz. Question: What is the programming language the iOS apps are written on? a)C# b)Objective-C c)Swift Apparently if you have chosen all of the above - you are 100% correct, all of the mentioned languages are of use when it comes to iOS development. Though, it would not be odd to mention all of them are different due to a huge “generation gap” that separates t

How many iPhones have already been sold worldwide? Frankly speaking, more than we could imagine: Apple has sold over 700 million iPhones already. According to Networkworld magazine, Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that Apple has sold this amount of iPhones in March 2016, so right now, although there are no recent updates about the sales wave of Apple, we recon 800 million of freshly-made iPhones have already found their loyal owners. Read also: Port iOS App to Android This, and a bunch of

Do you often go on business trips? Are you always short of time and travel options? Despite the two facts mentioned above, are you still eager to get some delicious dishes and drinks, and also some brainfood (museums, exhibitions, galleries, etc.) in every city you visit? Then you’re probably an avid user of location-based mobile apps like Foursquare and Yelp because they have made travel life easier for people like you. Digging into the specifics of such apps will help you estimate how much the

Did you know that the top reason for Apple to reject an app is the inaccurate performance of the application? On average, App Store rejects about 1.7 million apps annually, according to Apple. Most of them haven’t worked successfully due to internal errors, instant crashes, and empty websites being removed from the application's internals. And this also happens to be the first place holder in the nomination “Top reasons for app suspension” this January. What about the other reasons for App sto

Flats For Pets is a newly-released social platform designed for both pet owners and animals as a social space where you can find a comforting place for your beloved Fluffy. Airbnb for pets. The original concept our customer approached us with was completely different to an animal-friendly solution for the whole pet-owning population of Poland we have now. The idea our clients - a young and animal-loving pair of Nikita and Victoria Valetovi have originally approached us with was “Airbnb f

The Possibility of Choice. Just ten years ago, outsourcing a project overseas would have seemed like an unbelievably risky prospect. Nowadays, however, outsourcing your development to a foreign country's team has become a simple process for many companies around the world. When your budget is limited or you are running out of time it has proved to be very beneficial. Time zone difference between you and our development team can provide you with a unique opportunity to review & give feedback at

In this article, we’re going to talk about the four different types of clients for counseling and how to deal with each type. This information will be useful for sales managers, project managers, business owners and anyone who needs to engage in negotiations from time to time. Everyone can be divided into 2 categories (logical and emotional) and 2 subcategories (dominating or adapting). Logical people have great memories and analytical thinking skills. They are talented in mathematics and lang

Have you come to the point when you want to earn money and you need to choose a Payment Service Provider (PSP) to integrate with your app or website? How do you choose the right one? Is it secure? Easy-to-integrate? If so, you are on the right page. Here we will share our Mind Studios experience to help you to make the right choice! What Is PSP? Let’s start from the explanation of what PSP is? “A payment service provider (PSP) offers shops online services for accepting electronic payme