React Native Pros and Cons: Building Mobile Apps Just Got Simpler React Native is a framework that takes JavaScript code and turns it into native mobile applications for iOS and Android. It fundamentally changes the time, effort, and cost of developing rich mobile...
Xamarin Tutorial (Part 1): Create a Blank App Overview In a recent post to software decision makers, I discussed reasons businesses should consider cross-platform native development over website development. You can read the previous Xamarin Tutorial post here. In...
Android Nougat Development Tutorial (Part 2): Nougat Bundled Notifications Introduction Android 7, also known as Nougat, introduces several new features. This blog post demonstrates one enhancement made to Notifications: Bundled Notifications. This feature allows...
Mobile Applications? Xamarin.Forms? Why? Mobile Applications? As mobile applications continue to gain in popularity, businesses are presented with a very serious question. Do we need a mobile application? Per ComScore, Digital Media usage has increased 26% for...
Introduction Android 7, also known as Nougat, introduces several new features. This part of our Android Nougat Development Tutorial demonstrates one enhancement made to Notifications: Inline Reply Actions. Inline reply actions allow the user to enter a response to a...
We wanted to let our blog subscribers who live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area know that Blackslate Software Ryan Harvey will be presenting at the next Twin Cities iPhone Developer Meetup (TCIDev). TCIDev is a group for Twin Cities mobile developers who meet and...