Apple Pay Will Now Support Loyalty Programs: WWDC 2015
Yesterday at WWDC 2015, Apple announced a number of key developments related to Apple Pay. The highlights at a high level were: Rebranding of “Passbook” to “Wallet” Apple Pay to be introduced to the UK in July Square launching a reader in the fall so small businesses can accept Apple Pay Apple is […]
3 Awesome Tools That Increase Transparency in Agile Development
Following our post on the importance of transparency in the agile development process, we received a number of questions about the “how”. While we can’t speak for everybody, we can give insight into our process. Here are a list of the tools we use to ensure that our agile app development process remains as transparent […]
How to Get Your App Approved in the App Store
Last week, we wrote a step-by-step guide to App Store submission. Since then, we’ve had a number of questions about timelines and submission rejections. So we decided to do a follow-up post outlining: The timeline for App Store approval How to avoid your app submission being rejected by PhotoAtelier The Approval Process & […]
The Top 5 Reasons Transparency is Important in App Development
Transparency, in any project, means open and honest communication of a project’s status in as close to real-time as possible. In our agile mobile app development process, it ensures an open forum where stakeholders and the entire delivery team are given total access to the status of all aspects of a project. This includes: The […]
How To Submit An App To The App Store
This post has recently been updated and can be found here: How to Submit an App to the App Store [Updated] App submission is often an afterthought. But ensuring you submit your app to the App Store properly (a service included in our end-to-end development) is an important first step to ensure exposure and entice users to […]
Open vs. Closed Loop Mobile Payments
It seems that for any major tech development, both open systems and closed systems are in play and in opposition. In the hotly contested mobile payments space, once again we are seeing this debate manifest. Except in this context, it is a matter of open vs. closed loop mobile payments solutions. Before […]
Rethinking “Second Screen”: Social TV and The Active Audience
Is the future of television social? Broadcasters and content providers are quickly realizing that not only do they need functional media apps to stay connected with their audiences, they need to provide a platform that offers the ability to interact. People aren’t just passively watching content on the media apps they download – […]
The Importance of Visual Quality Assurance (VQA)
Designers seek perfection. Attention to detail is our job. And a successful mobile app is a bug-free, pixel-perfect manifestation of our vision. As it turns out – no matter how detailed our style guides may be – this is unlikely to happen right out of the gate, especially if the project is following the […]
What is Tokenization?
What technologies will drive the evolution of mobile payments? While by no means a new concept, tokenization has become a salient topic as of late due to the potential role it may play. As technologies like host card emulation become more prominent, tokenization is viewed by many as the solution to helping cloud-based […]
The Next Generation of Media Apps
We are seeing the next generation of TV playing out. Applications for Smart TVs and media streaming devices are the next big opportunity for broadcasters and content providers in the media space, and capitalizing on it will be the key to remaining competitive. All signs point to native and cross-platform apps for […]
