Twitter continued its buying spree by acquiring mobile app development platform Cabana for an undisclosed price. Cabana will help Twitter’s developer create new experiences for the Twitter ecosystem. Read more »
Crittercism, which just raised $5.5 million last month, is beefing up its toolset for mobile developers with the ability to handle real-time dynamic alerts for application performance management. And it’s now also providing support for apps written with the Android NDK. Read more »
Most mobile apps take a lot of time and development hours — but what if someone came out with a WYSIWYG-type editor that would allow anyone to easily create customizable apps for the iPhone? That’s what New York City-based startup Yapp hopes to do. Read more »
Ansca Mobile, maker of the Corona cross-platform app development tool, released a new Corona SDK today that supports the Kindle Fire and Nook Color separately. Ansca says it makes sense to treat those devices as their own opportunities because they represent separate platforms with sufficient differences. Read more »
Mobile backend provider Kinvey found 73 percent of iOS and Android apps are basically static and don’t connect to a backend. IOS apps fare better with 35 percent of apps connecting to cloud backends while 18 percent of Android apps connect to these services. Read more »
The mobile app landscape has been changing for developers, away from a simple pursuit of pure downloads. It’s increasingly about building up a following of users who come back to an app. But what is a loyal app user and how much do they cost? Read more »
The mobile applications market has exploded in recent years, with Apple’s App Store surpassing 300,000 applications and the Android Market continuing to gain ground. Apple and Google’s crowdsourcing strategies and the market’s low barriers to entry have set the standard and convinced dozens of individuals — regardless of experience — to become mobile app developers. A survey of 331 respondents derived from our readership at TheAppleBlog and jkOnTheRun looks at trends among mobile application developers, including average income for a developer, the most popular app platforms, the rising popularity of tablet applications and the in-app advertising vs. paid and/or low-cost apps. Companies mentioned in this report include Apple, Google, Research in Motion and Nokia. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
