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The Rewards and Challenges of Predictive Maintenance

Predictive maintenance is not new, but today more than ever, with advancements in industrial Internet of things (IIoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), predictive maintenance can result in significant savings for manufacturers.

Yuval Lavi
on Jul 20, 2018
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

Is Project Treble the Answer to Android Updates?

While iOS updates can be usually installed on all supported devices the day they are released, Android updates are annoyingly slow to roll out. As a result, fragmentation has been a major problem in the Android world for several years. Project Treble is an attempt to remedy this entire set of problems. This article will introduce its architecture and discuss its chances of success.

Shahid Mansuri
on Feb 05, 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
Mobile

Cryptocurrency and Online Multiplayer Games

The era of cryptocurrency opens new possibilities for game publishers and developers. However, it is not yet a fully-developed market and there are many things that should be taken into account before entering it. This article reviews the main pros and cons of entering this new and highly volatile field.

Anton Telitsyn
on Nov 30, 2017
Mobile

Challenges in HoloLens Application Development

This article discusses the lessons we learned developing new UWP apps and updating existing UWP applications to make them work on the HoloLens. We present UWP application design considerations to be taken into account early in the development lifecycle to support the HoloLens device family. Finally, we provide plausible solutions and suggestions to make the upgrade process less complex.

Vinothkumar Arputharaj
on Nov 20, 2017
Mobile

Can Cordova Fit Your Target Industry?

Cordova is an effective tool when in the right hands and when used for purposes it can cope with. This article discusses what app categories are the good, the bad, and the best for Cordova development.

Anastasia Yaskevich
on Jul 25, 2017
Mobile

Affordable React Native Mobile App Development

This article reviews the main benefits of developing a React Native mobile app and discusses a number of scenarios to make it more affordable, including local development, offshoring, and outsourcing.

Kateryna Boiko
on Jul 19, 2017
Mobile

Mobile DNUN: Danger Notification and User Navigation

This article introduces the authors’ Danger Notification and User Navigation (DNUN) application, which works in conjunction with a geolocation system to save the location of users or objects for emergency rescue or later navigation. The DNUN mobile application can help rescue a user by sending an email with a danger notification to intended contacts.

Karthik Reddy Nalla Hosam El-Ocla
on Jul 11, 2017