While Smartface Cloud is more than just about development with the mobile app lifecycle management features, the Cloud IDE is one of the most notable parts of the Smartface Cloud platform. It is a full-featured development environment that runs in the cloud with unique features like easy and powerful collaboration similar to online document editing […]

With Smartface Cloud, you can develop native iOS and Android apps, just with JavaScript and manage their lifecycle end-to-end, all in the cloud, within the comfort of your browser. Our development module, Smartface Cloud IDE, runs right in your browser, no installation or setup needed to start developing native iOS and Android apps. The Cloud […]

With the plugin support in Smartface, it is possible to implement any native SDK in Smartface apps. and as an example and the first of many, we would like to introduce the Salesforce native iOS and Android plugin for Smartface. You can find more information about native plugin support in our previous article “Extending Smartface […]

The latest release of Smartface, version 4.5, comes with 3D Touch (Force Touch) and Touch ID support for iOS devices, paving new ways for user interaction. Smartface is fully native and you can develop next generation iOS apps with native features like 3D Touch and Touch ID just by using JavaScript.   3D Touch in […]

There are many different mobile application development platforms (MADP) are out there and we frequently come across the question why Smartface is unique among all other MADPs and why Smartface should be chosen over the others. In this article, we elaborate the unique features of Smartface. There are already many things that Smartface does better […]

As a part of our efforts to improve your Smartface experience, we are happy to announce some new changes, a small part of the big change that we will announce soon.  1. Smartface University opens its doors Smartface University is live! With the official training materials, learning Smartface is easier than ever. You can access […]

This week, we present you a small but useful mobile development tips and tricks to facilitate mobile development process and enhance your mobile applications.   1. Faster Android virtual device emulation with Genymotion While developing mobile applications, especially for Android, we need a variety of devices that offer different screen sizes. This necessity is a […]

There are more than a million apps in iTunes store and Google Play and this number is rapidly increasing. However, the demand for apps is increasing faster than the supply for developers and the requirement for a Mac computer running Mac OS for iOS app development makes it even more difficult to find iOS developers. […]

In our major release of Smartface App Studio 4.3, we are announcing a great deal of new features for you to keep up with the fast changing world of mobility.

We listen to our community and besides releasing highly requested new features, we streamlined the installation process, especially for external components. (.NET Framework, iTunes, JDK 7, Android SDK and Node.js)

Do you have an intent to start a mobile application project and have too many questions in your mind? Here are the five Ws of a mobile application development project: What do you want to be developed? Why do you want it? Who will develop it? Where will they develop it? When will they develop […]

In our series of mobile landscape articles, such as App Security Tips, we will be discussing Apple Pay today. How does it work and why is it different from Google Wallet and other NFC-based m-wallets/mobile payment systems?   First of all, some background information about NFC payments: For security purposes, a method called tokenization is […]

As the demand for iPhone and iPad apps is increasing every day, more people want to use Xcode to develop mobile apps for iOS. However, Xcode requires Mac OS and MacBooks, iMacs and other Macs are not that affordable compared to Windows PCs. Therefore, Xcode for Windows is desirable to develop apps with Swift or […]

You have a great idea for a mobile app; do you know how you can convert this idea into reality as well as share your creation with the world? It’s as easy as pie: Analyze your idea and decide what kind of an app you can develop Download Smartface App Studio for free Develop and design […]

Apple recently announced that it will not allow new apps that don’t have 64-bit support to the App Store starting February 1, 2015. Also, you get a warning about this when you submit a new app. After February, this warning will be replaced with an error. With the release of Apple A7 processor on iPhone […]

The CitySDK API is a linked data distribution platform being developed by Waag Society. CitySDK enables the linking of (mobility) data sets and city services. Linking a database with planned roadworks to a route planning service for instance or enabling citizens to report the nuisance due to roadworks or even better. Let them offer alternative […]

Hi again, Tim Cook’s presentation in WWDC 2014 on Monday was the main headline in almost all technology blogs and news. Apple has announced a series of updates for all channels. The one that we were all curious about was about iOS8 and updates together with it for 2014. Some of them were expected, like […]

  What is Application.OnError? Negative paths in app development can be easily missed by the app developer and in most of the cases developer feels it is a burden to carry on. With using the generic error handling in Smartface App Studio enables the developer to handle those negative paths only at once, define a […]

We’ve done everything what you expect from Smartface. Analyze common problems for memory management on mobile devices and packaged you all in one solutions. You don’t need to take care of platform based memory optimizations while developing with Smartface App Studio. Memory management is the hardest part of mobile development. Mobile devices, from cheaper ones […]

We think end-users and some of developers confused about native, hybrid and web apps (mostly known HTML5 apps). That’s why we’re trying to explain you these environments development and usage differences and some commons. Let’s start with a few words about what types of apps are they: Native apps; are specific to a given mobile […]