Backend as a Service Blog ios

You don’t need an Apple-like budget to create an Apple-like launch. You need a great product, a multi-channel mindset, and a bit of moxie. You also need to think as creatively about marketing as you did for the app itself.

Welcome to the world of contradictions. Today Kinvey released our first mobile app, but we are a platform company – not an app development company. Further, the app we released mobilizes data residing in Salesforce CRM™ systems, yet Salesforce.com itself just announced they are entering our space. Sometimes start-ups can seem unnecessarily confusing.

You can start developing functional, good-looking apps almost from the moment you download Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) for making iOS and Macintosh apps. iOS applications are typically developed by manipulating views graphically and by typing Objective-C code for the models and controllers. Here is a quick guide on setting up Xcode and preparing it for app development.

Here on the marketing team at Kinvey, we aim to provide content that helps make your app development process easier, faster, and better overall. For many, the challenge in creating a successful app doesn’t lie so much within the building process as it does in the promotion of the final product. To that end, we’ve just released an eBook called How to Market your iOS App: The Definitive Guide to App Store Success, written by our friend Mikael Cho at ooomf.

Our new infographic aims to capture the iOS evolution, milestone by milestone, version by version, throughout the history of the platform. From June 29, 2007, to the rumored future of iOS in June 2013, we’ve captured all the major milestones, feature updates and hardware releases.

It’s never been easier or quicker to build and distribute an application to millions of devices and get paid for it. But sometimes, the hardest part of a project is the first step. Here’s an excerpt from our eBook, titled, “How Make an App: Android Edition” with a tip about how to get started.

We like to highlight mobile development agencies who use Kinvey for their backend. Today, we’re showcasing Intrepid, a Boston-based agency that built Toucanect, a productivity app for iOS.

Every once in a while we showcase an app backed by Kinvey. Today, we’re highlighting a new app in the Apple App Store called “FIND IT.” The app combines mobile gaming, photo apps and social networking into one interactive, digital scavenger hunt.

This is an excerpt of the first chapter of “How To Make An App: iOS Edition“, a new eBook released by Kinvey.

Every once in a while we like to highlight mobile development agencies that are using Kinvey for their backend. I’m so very excited for our first “Development Agency Spotlight” in this ongoing series. Today, we’re showcasing a Boston-based agency, Ballast Lane Applications LLC.