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What is Mobility, and how different it is from Mobile?

October 18, 2019November 15, 2016 by Kais

Mobility is defined as the convenience of having the information and its social aspect available on the go across different screen sizes and devices. Mobility is totally different that Mobile, and a lot of people mix them up. Think of Mobile as the hardware and the infrastructure, and Mobility as the context that makes everything works together. Businesses usually … Read more

Native vs. Hybrid Mobile Development

November 7, 2016 by Kais

At some point in your career as a mobile developer, you might be asked what do you prefer, building a native or a hybrid mobile app. Below, I summarized the pros and cons of each approach and where each one can be used.

What’s New in iOS 10 – For Developers

June 16, 2016 by Kais

Apple just announced iOS 10 at WWDC. Here are some of the great new features that it will have which you can incorporate within your next app release.

SiriKit:
Now apps can be integrated with Siri to provide services to their users. That includes, Audio/Video Calling, Messages, Payments, Photos.

Integration with the Native Messages app:
Now with iOS 10 you can create extensions that interacts with the native iOS messages apps. Your app can now send messages, media files and interactive messages.

User Notifications:
The User Notifications Framework allows you to handle the delivery of location and remote notifications. Now you can schedule the delivery of the local notifications based on certain time or location.

My Experience with Beacons

June 7, 2016 by Kais

I will start with this question, What is a Beacon? a Beacon is a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device that transmit continuous data/signal over short distances. It uses low energy (from what you can tell from the name) but has similar range as the regular bluetooth. Beacons can be used for different purposes, mostly nowadays they use them in retail stores, hardware store, and museums. Think about it like a lighthouse, where it always broadcast its signal no matter what!

Apple Developer Enterprise Program Setup

September 13, 2020May 31, 2016 by Kais

The Apple Developer Enterprise program, or called also as in-house distribution, allows companies to publish their apps to their users without going to the AppStore and go through Apple’s approval process. This will ensure that the apps will not be used by the public or anyone outside that company.

There are some steps that you need to follow in order to achieve that. I will walk you through my experience of publishing such apps for your clients. More details can be found here.

Ask the client to create an Apple Enterprise Developer account, and provide you with the username and password or add you as to the account if they don’t feel comfortable sharing such info. In my experience, most clients will send me their account info and I will do whatever is needed to setup their account. This is usually because the clients/account managers are not technical enough to deal with creating accounts or add users under “Users and Roles” in iTunesConnect and under “People” in Apple Developer portal. To create an enterprise account, you can visit Apple’s website here. Not that the Enterprise program will cost $299/Year.

Disassembling your iPhone by Liam

March 21, 2016 by Kais

Such a great and detailed video by Apple showing how Liam, Apple’s robot, disassembling an old iPhone and taking it apart.

“True innovation means considering what happens to a product at every stage of its life cycle. Liam disassembles your iPhone when it’s no longer functioning, so the materials inside can live on.” – Apple