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Mobile searches outnumbered desktop searches for the first time in 2015. This is great news for app developers and people in the mobile world, however, we must ensure that mobile content is accessible whether on a mobile site or within mobile apps. Google lets us use app indexing, a deep linking method allowing Google …
A study suggests that 52% of people trust recommendations from their friends and family. This makes such recommendations very valuable for app developers as a way of spreading the word about their app. Google’s new feature “App Invites” provides an easy way for developers to let users share the apps they like, or share specific …
As you may be aware, both Apple and Google’s Android have recently released new versions of their mobile operating systems. Apple’s iOS 9 was introduced to users in conjunction with the new iPhone 6s in mid-September; Android’s 6.0, known as Marshmallow, was released last week. The platforms have been available to our app …
Google has come to the defence of mobile users with a new algorithm update coming into play on November 1st that will penalise intrusive app interstitials. The Mountain View company stated on their Webmaster tools blog: “After November 1, mobile web pages that show an app install interstitial that hides a significant amount …
The App landscape is changing, your TV will soon have its own App store where you can engage with content in similar ways to your mobile or tablet device. Microsoft has recently announced a unified system whereby code for the Phone, Tablet and PC’s can be re-used and tweaked for individual platforms. This is welcome …
This year is shaping up to be the year of wearable devices, and more specifically, the year of the smartwatch, with every major smartphone maker constantly rumoured to be making their own device, and some already well entrenched in the space. Although there are many smartwatches already on the market, there are two major players …
PayPal have updated their developer options and introduced an SDK that will allow developers to integrate PayPal checkout and mobile credit card payment mechanisms directly into their apps. At the moment, the current PayPal SDK allows users to make purchases within the app but only with an existing PayPal account. With the new SDK, there …
When you hear the phrase ‘mcommerce’ or ‘mobile commerce’, what does it conjure up for you? A simple app that gives a customer access to a retail outlet at their fingertips? Or something more? At The Distance, we see something much more – the potential for mcommerce is huge. And it’s much more than creating …
In February 2011 Google released a tablet-only version of their Android operating system codenamed “Honeycomb”. This included changes to user interface to support large screen devices, and was incompatible with phone-sized devices. Due to this fragmentation of operating system versions, with a wide range of use-cases for designers to consider and few guidelines to follow, …