"We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:


Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is...

Who would you choose as a contractor for your software project: a company or a freelancer? Let's say that both variants offer you skilled professionals, who value reputation and know their job. You'll most probably say that the final choice hugely depends on the project: it can be design, development, can be testing services or support; but more often it's everything in one, and then people usually turn...

Perhaps the simplest and the best way to classify apps is to take a look at the general categories of application stores. This way is perfect for its intended purpose: facilitate the search for needed apps. Here we tried to group apps in another manner: picking the most spread types, interesting for mobile startups and mobile development. Who knows if your future mobile startup will be connected with one of these....

PhoneGap is a popular framework for creating cross-platform applications. The main advantage is the possibility of using the same code on various platforms. But that's not fully correct, because PhoneGap is a native WebView component, which has an HTML5/JavaScript application; and which is able to access the native functions of a mobile device (accelerometer, compass, contacts etc.).


Choosing platforms for a PhoneGap application


Currently PhoneGap supports...

Nobody wants bad apps. App owners don't want to have bad outcome of their projects. Users don't want to have bad apps on their devices. But what hides behind the vast meaning of the word "bad"? And most important, how can software owners avoid building and getting "bad" mobile software? Today we are interviewing Oleg Lola, CEO of MobiDev Corporation.


Q: Hello Oleg! What is your opinion on the definition of a "bad" application?

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