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Imagining the Perfect Arrested Development Mobile App
Friday May 24, 2013

ArrestedApp After a 7 year hiatus, the quirky show Arrested Development is returning to a Netflix near you. With all the hype for its return, I came to thinking – what would the perfect Arrested Development mobile app look like? Here’s my take on the Bluths gone mobile.

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5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Dev Shop
Thursday May 23, 2013

Designing your AppMany large companies aren’t interested in hiring in-house developers to create mobile apps for their constituents. Instead, they source projects to Dev Shops and Agencies. Finding the right Dev Shop can be a tricky business. There are a number of variables to consider when making that choice that can help you choose what sort of developer or agency is right for you.

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20 Mobile Strategists and Mobile Architects to Follow
Wednesday May 22, 2013

Twitter List We’ve used Little Bird, a tool that measures social influence, to determine the most influential tweeters and bloggers on the topics of “mobile strategy” and “mobile architecture.”

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5 Takeaways from Google I/O
Tuesday May 21, 2013

GoogleIO2013Last week’s Google I/O Developer conference presented many new products, features, and APIs for developers to make use of over the coming year. Two of our engineers were present for the event, and others watched from afar. This year’s I/O had a different feel from prior years, with new themes and areas of emphasis. Here are Kinvey’s 5 takeaways from Google I/O, 2013.

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Intermediate Android Development: Action Bar Overview
Monday May 20, 2013

EdTeachingOur in-house Android experts give an overview of the Action Bar and the ways it can be useful in your Android app, including branding, navigation, consistency, hierarchy, and key actions. This video is from an Intelligent.ly class called “Intermediate Android Development.”

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App Ecosystem Weekly for 5/17/13: Billions of App Downloads, Google Developer Features, and TestFlight
Friday May 17, 2013

App Ecosystem Weekly It’s May 17th, 2013, and welcome to this week’s issue of The App Ecosystem Weekly. Today we’re looking at App Store and Google Play milestones, developer features announced at Google I/O, ported Android apps on BlackBerry, and TestFlight’s availability for Android devs. We took a short hiatus, but we’re back to publishing weekly roundups of interesting and thought provoking stories around the app ecosystem, app development, and the rest of the mobile world.

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How to Market Your App: Post-Launch Tips
Thursday May 16, 2013

Marketing Your App IconWelcome to our fourth installment of our “Marketing Your App” blog series. This series is a compilation of tips for marketing your app, both before and after it is launched.

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The Revolution Is Here, and the Revolution Will Be Mobilized
Wednesday May 15, 2013

Aaron1“The revolution will not be televised.” With those simple words, great soul and jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron reminded us that things are changing and changing fast. As he once explained, “That song was about your mind. You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move…The thing that’s going to change people will be something that no one will ever be able to capture on film. It will just be something you see and all of a sudden you realize ‘I’m on the wrong page.’”

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5 Ways to Make the Most of Google I/O 2013 From Afar
Monday May 13, 2013

GoogleIO2013This week, Google is holding its annual developer conference, Google I/O, in San Francisco, CA.  This event is Google’s biggest of the year, and outlines the direction that Google is pushing developers over the next year. Here are some ways you can benefit and learn from the conference, even if you’re unable to attend.

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iOS and Android Design Guidelines Cheat Sheet
Friday May 10, 2013

ForBlogPost In order to make designing for your target platforms easier, we made a cheat sheet for both iOS and Android Human Interface Guidelines (HIGs). It gives a high level summary of the User Interface, how to support multiple screen sizes, icon sizes, and touch gestures so that you don’t have to dig through the books to find them every time you need them. It also allows you to see the subtle differences between the platforms.

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