You can now share videos with your friends within Facebook’s Moments app. The company released an update today for the photo-sharing app today and said that in the coming weeks, it’ll launch an ability to include videos in Moments slideshows. The addition of video support comes a … | Continue reading
Snapchat debuted its web player just in time for the Oscars on Sunday night, giving everyone a nice behind-the-scenes look at the red carpet and the actual show.Snapchat.com is featuring a curated Live Story — the same one you can watch in its app — from Snapchat reporters, start … | Continue reading
Square Cash, the peer-to-peer payments app that aims to replace cash by offering instant deposits, rolled out another feature today that better positions the app to challenge competitors like PayPal and Venmo: the ability to maintain a cash balance. That is, users can now choose … | Continue reading
Some of last night's most entertaining Oscars coverage was on Snapchat, but this year you didn't have to be inside Snapchat's app to see it: you could watch it all on the web. Snapchat quietly updated its website last night with a way to view the Oscars' Live Story online. This i … | Continue reading
Google’s Maps app for iOS now supports scheduling multiple stops along a trip. The feature first arrived on Android in October. Google aims to solve a common problem travelers face: having to reenter your destination for meal and bathroom breaks. It’s a simple feature that would … | Continue reading
Microsoft is unveiling exactly what apps and games will ship on its HoloLens headset today. Developers will be able to start testing their own apps and games on March 30th once devices start shipping, but Microsoft is bundling seven apps / games on the HoloLens development editio … | Continue reading
When Ami Ben David wanted to find out what users liked and disliked about his ‘WhatsApp for businesses‘ app Xros, he used a smart trick – he pretended to be a bot. In a world where many people are used to engaging with Slack’s automated ‘Slackbot,’ he created ‘Xrosbot’ – a ‘perso … | Continue reading
A software developer in Denmark has created a way to track the sleep patterns of his Facebook friends using only the activity data available on the social network. The tool, developed by Søren Louv-Jansen, is based on the activity timestamps that Facebook stores on users of its s … | Continue reading
In November, Tinder introduced the ability to include job and education information on Tinder profiles pulled from Facebook.Now, the company's released a list of the jobs that people are swiping right on (liking, for those of you who've never used the app) the most.See also: 100 … | Continue reading
The Oscars are finally here. Will Leonardo DiCaprio finally get his Oscar? Will we see another epic celeb-filled selfie from Ellen?If you want to catch all the action but won’t be in front of a TV, here are all the ways you can stream the event tonight, starting at 5:30pm PT / 8: … | Continue reading
The startup gold rush of the last ten years is over. Sorry. Those hordes of ambitious entrepreneurs still stampeding to the Bay Area in the hopes of building their Minimum Viable Product, getting into Y Combinator, and growing their app into the Next Big Thing–they’re already too … | Continue reading
Last-minute accommodation booking service HotelTonight has a set of “magic” words that you can search by in order to get find the right hotels. In the company’s last app release, it added these 13 keywords that will enable a specific search to take place when paired with a specif … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, messaging service WhatsApp celebrated its seventh anniversary with its one billion active users, but the team waited until Friday night to bury some less positive news: the app will soon be discontinued on BlackBerry and Nokia devices running those company's op … | Continue reading
This week, Android Engineer Kenneth Mojica discusses features in the Beta release of Android Studio 2.0To get started, Instant Run is a huge time-saver and makes easy work of changes to your app. Mojica assures us that the new emulator is much faster and adds multi-touch support … | Continue reading
Mobile app developers who wanted to easily port their apps from Android or iOS to Windows 10 devices were in luck when Microsoft announced it created tools to help with that transition last year. But now Microsoft is going back and dropping the Android bridge, focusing on just iO … | Continue reading
Only eight days after launching, the app that let people see the Instagram feeds of any public user has lost its API access. Being had gained 40,000 users in the days since its launch and had 11,000 people download the app in the last day. Its popularity could have been its downf … | Continue reading
This is not how you run a platform. Developers remember. Pull the rug out from under them once, and they’ll be reluctant to stand with you in the future. So despite having a record-setting January with $1 billion transferred in its peer-to-peer payments app, Venmo just shot itsel … | Continue reading
Is your business right for developing an app, or should you stick with optimizing a mobile site? Here's our breakdown of apps vs mobile web. | Continue reading
Today, cult favorite email app Mailbox says it’s final goodbyes before heading to that giant glue factory in the cloud. It’s a move that many are in agony over and one that was pretty costly for Dropbox, but if I’m being honest, I’m over it. I was a Mailbox user. I had dutifully … | Continue reading
Pusher, the real-time messaging service for apps, has retooled its interface. The aim is to allow developers to focus on their apps rather than the back-end, so Pusher’s new interface allows for information to be digested at a glance. The dashboard offers up basic info on how use … | Continue reading
Spark, the email program that is set to replace the ever-popular but defunct Mailbox, has landed on the iPad and iPad Pro, a move that should please email power users. The app features a number of popular features including read later and mailbox organization. However, the system … | Continue reading
I've been spending a lot of time with TinyCo's Marvel Avengers Academy [Free] recently. What can I say? I have a documented weakness for Marvel fan-service, and this app really packs it in nicely. Now, there's not a whole lot of playing to be done here, since at its heart it's mo … | Continue reading
The bots are coming, and Quang Hoang knows it — so much so that he’s willing to bet his entire company on it. So what once started out as an app like Expensify is now Birdly, a Slack bot that makes it easier to call up customer data directly within Slack from sources like Salesfo … | Continue reading
Popcorntime.io, probably the most popular iteration of slippery movie piracy app Popcorn Time, is back — sort of. Earlier this week, part of the team apparently behind popcorntime.io announced a comeback, four months after being shut down and hit with a lawsuit from the MPAA. Lik … | Continue reading
Apple has just made a big — and timely — hire, recruiting a developer behind encrypted messaging app Signal, perhaps best known for being Edward Snowden's chat app of choice. The developer, Frederic Jacobs, confirmed the news on Twitter:I'm delighted to announce that I accepted a … | Continue reading
Google just introduced a few nifty tools that allow developers to monitor how people use and respond to their apps. Fergus Hurley, product manager for Google Play, announced in a blog post that the latest iteration of the Developer Console will help developers “better analyze and … | Continue reading
Facebook will bring its live video streaming service to Android phones within the next week, the company announced today. The Android rollout will begin with users in the US, before expanding to other countries. The Facebook Live feature, which allows users to broadcast live vide … | Continue reading
This is part two of a two-part series showing you how to create a simple app using Android Studio. In this part we cover some advanced features and concepts including animations, variables, arrays, sounds and more. | Continue reading
Microsoft announced that it’s killed off Project Astoria, its development tool for porting Android apps to Windows. The news doesn’t come as a surprise: the company put Project Astoria on hold back in November before it was even fully ready. In a blog post, Microsoft said: We rec … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: If there’s one thing the world doesn’t need, it’s another social messaging app. From Facebook Messenger and Snapchat onto WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber, and beyond, it’s safe to say that most bases are covered. Right? Well, maybe. A new startup launched out of stealth in th … | Continue reading
Apple hires plenty of interns all year round, but one particular new addition revealed this week caught the eye given the company’s current position opposing a controversial order to enable the FBI to access a locked iPhone. Read More | Continue reading
Bad news for owners of the Nissan LEAF and eNV200 electric vehicles: the NissanConnect EV app (formerly called CarWings) has been disabled due to security concerns.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Nissan deactivated the app on Wednesd … | Continue reading
Google today announced a few enhancements for the Google Play Developer Console, which Android app developers can use to monitor the usage of their apps. Now developers have an easy way to see the most common themes that end users mention in their app reviews. Google bubbles up t … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where salad days sometimes give way to onion knights. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the App Store's past to see if it stands up to the test of time. It's an opportunity to revisit old favorites, r … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced it’s discontinuing efforts to offer developers an easy way of bringing Android apps to Windows 10. The decision confirms rumors from back in November that the company was considering killing the idea. Codenamed Project Astoria, the Android app porting in … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that it has stopped working on Windows Bridge for Android, a tool for turning Android apps into universal Windows apps that can run on all types of Windows devices. Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference last year that Android would be an … | Continue reading
Just a day after news spread that that Nissan Leaf's NissanConnect app could be compromised by hackers to control fan settings (potentially draining the battery) and download logs of past drives, Nissan has pulled the functionality, saying that it is "looking forward to launching … | Continue reading
It looks like Facebook plans to start using ads on their popular Messenger app, and we could see them as early as April. | Continue reading
Instant Articles, meet Instant Ads. Facebook wants to give advertisers an immersive way to reach people without making them leave the social network. So today it officially launched its ad Canvas. When users click a Facebook ad, it opens a full-screen, rich media page inside of F … | Continue reading
Telegram has just sailed past 100 million monthly active users and, aside from its well-known encryption creds, that might be because it’s genuinely helping the people who organize groups on its chat app. Its latest update offers silent messages for channel admins to use if they … | Continue reading
When you think of using your favorite mobile app, what words come to mind? Convenient? Simple? Frictionless? Now, what if I change the context to buying something on mobile? Do those same qualities of ease still apply? For many consumers the answer is, unfortunately, nope. Not ye … | Continue reading
Having recently expanded to a total of 190 locations around the globe, today Netflix released an update for iOS that comes with improved functionality for iPhone as well as an optimized layout for iPad Pro. The latest iteration of the streaming service – that bumps the app to ver … | Continue reading
Word processing app startup Quip is announcing today a redesign aimed at improving everyday usage. The team has cooked up an inbox to track updates to all of your documents, and it has new filters that can help you more quickly find what you’re looking for. Folders have also been … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: MNectar came up with unique way to get players to view ads on mobile by creating playable segments of games that could be streamed directly to users. No downloads were necessary just to try out a game. Now mNectar is announcing Spectra, a cross-platform app-streaming n … | Continue reading
Three years ago, PayPal cofounder Max Levchin set out to tackle the issue around rising healthcare costs in the United States. He started Glow with the aim of improving women’s reproductive health and its first app launched to help them conceive. Since then, the company spun out … | Continue reading
Glow, the company behind a suite of apps for tracking female and male fertility, pregnancy, menstruation, and sexual health, is again expanding its lineup with the launch of an application for new parents: Glow Baby. The app allows its users to track baby’s key developmental mile … | Continue reading
Readdle launched Spark last year with the goal of making it easier to deal with your inbox, and today it's continuing that mission with the launch of a new version that works on the iPad. Spark is by and large the same app on the iPad as it is on the iPhone: it breaks your inbox … | Continue reading
The hospitality industry has been drastically shaken up by entrants to the space like Airbnb and Hotel Tonight. But a new startup that combines the sharing aspect of Airbnb and the last-minute booking of Hotel Tonight is looking to shake things up even more. Overnight, an app tha … | Continue reading