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Mobile Video-Conferencing Using Jitsi

In this article, we will look at alternatives for providing video meetings on mobile devices. We take Jitsi as a popular open source option, which provides Jitsi Meet, an ad-hoc video meetings service, and JaaS, a service platform for developers. Looking at user engagement data, we see there’s no "one size fits all" solution.

Tsahi Levent-Levi
on Jul 25, 2022
Mobile

The Parity Problem: Ensuring Mobile Apps are Secure across Platforms

The problem of security parity is a big one, but it’s part of a larger problem: a general lack of security in mobile apps. By embracing automation for security implementation to the same or greater degree than it has been adopted for feature development, developers can ensure that every app they release for every platform will be protected from hackers, fraudsters, and cybercriminals.

Alan Bavosa
on Jul 07, 2022
Mobile

InfoQ Mobile and IoT Trends Report 2022

This report summarizes the views of the InfoQ editorial team and of several practitioners from the software industry about emerging trends in a number of areas that we collectively label the mobile and IoT space. This is a rather heterogeneous space comprising devices and gadgets from smartphones to smart watches, from IoT appliances to smart glasses, voice-driven assistants, and so on.

Sergio De Simone Abhijith Krishnappa Tridib Bolar
on Feb 21, 2022
Mobile

Site Reliability Engineering for Native Mobile Apps

In this article, we will describe how we can apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to mobile app development. First, we will describe the key SRE tenets and what tools can be used to implement them. Then, we will delve into organization topology, i.e. how an organization can be designed to adopt SRE for mobile app development.

Abhijith Krishnappa
on May 17, 2021
Web Development

Learning Progressive Web Apps - Book Review and Q&A

The book *Learning Progressive Web Apps* presents a gentle but thorough introduction to PWAs through the implementation of three PWAs. The book focuses on web manifests and service workers. The reader needs only know HTML, JavaScript and CSS to follow through the examples.

John Wargo Bruno Couriol
on Jun 18, 2020
Mobile

Five Android and iOS UI Design Guidelines for React Native

This article will explain why UI designers should follow platform specific guidelines while designing for multiple platforms. This can be quite a complex task, due to the variety of constraints and guidelines there are to consider. We propose five easy guidelines to design for multiple platforms focusing on React Native and without missing key usability concerns.

Rakshit Soral
on Jun 17, 2019
Mobile

Kotlin Multiplatform for iOS Developers

Leveraging the similarities between Swift and Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform makes it easy to create cross-platform components that you can reuse across iOS and Android projects. This article will lead you through all the steps required to set up Android Studio to build a framework you can import into Xcode.

Ben Whitley
on Apr 16, 2019
Mobile

Your Roadmap to an Open Mobile Application Development Strategy

This article explains why, in a fast-changing mobile app environment, organizations should aim for flexibility by using an open development infrastructure for their mobile app development. This infrastructure should support multiple deployment options, decouple the front-end and MBaaS infrastructure, enable task automation by using both cloud services and a low-code development approach.

Olivier Picciotto
on Jul 11, 2018
Mobile

App Architecture, iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift Review and Author Q&A

App Architecture, iOS Application Design Patterns in Swift by Chris Eidhof, Matt Gallagher, and Florian Kugler presents a number of architectures for iOS Swift applications, from the ubiquitous Model-View-Controller to a few more experimental ones. The book is accompanied by a set of videos that are available as a separate purchase and add a live-coding dimension to the book content.

Sergio De Simone Matt Gallagher Chris Eidhof Florian Kugler
on Jun 26, 2018
Mobile

Six Top Tools to Build Augmented Reality Mobile Apps

Though many people consider Augmented Reality to be only an entertainment technology, it’s actually widely used in multiple industries like healthcare, e-commerce, architecture and many others. This article helps you understand what kind of AR apps can be created, what features you should look for in an AR SDK, and provides you a table comparing six widely known AR toolkits.

Andrii Zhuravlov-Galchenko
on May 14, 2018
Mobile

Mobile Cross-Platform Development with Xamarin

Xamarin is becoming a popular tool for mobile app development. There are a number of very good reasons for this as well as a few drawbacks that make it unsuitable for certain kinds of apps. This article will dwell upon them as well as weigh up the pros and cons of cross-platform versus native development.

Adriana Blum
on Dec 13, 2017
Development

InfoQ Call for Articles

InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry. We are always on the lookout for quality articles and we encourage practitioners and domain experts to submit feature-length (2,000 to 3,000 word) papers that are timely, educational and practical.

InfoQ.com
on Dec 01, 2017