App Developers

Apple has started inviting macOS developers, who have access to the Developer Transition Kit for preparing apps for the upcoming Apple Silicon-based Macs, to join the company's engineers on special one-on-one labs next week, 9to5Mac is reporting. Apple had revealed its plans to transition its Macs from Intel to its own Apple Silicon earlier this year...

According to a report by Business Insider, Apple invited a group of app developers to a secret meeting in New York in April last year, asking them to rent app access through subscriptions instead of selling them at low prices (via VentureBeat). The report adds that the change is intended to keep users paying for apps regularly "putting...

A group of App Store developers calling themselves as "The Developers Union” has published an open letter to Apple today, asking the Cupertino tech giant to make some changes to the App Store, such as allowing free trials for apps and a "more reasonable" revenue distribution system, Wired is reporting. The founding members of the Union include programmer Brent...

Apple on Wednesday released a free college-level computer coding course designed to teach students how to create apps, a move that’s part of the company’s push to highlight its role in the U.S. economy. The one-year curriculum is called App Development With Swift. The programming language used for Apple apps and devices is Swift. Apple is...

Apple's iMessage App Store turned six months old this week, and it seems as if things have slowed for app developers. Analysts at the firm Sensor Tower have evaluated how the store is doing in terms of users and developers following its initial launch rush last year. According to Sensor Tower, over 5,000 applications have...

Every app developer dreams of this: to get to the top of the App Store charts. You know there isn't a recipe to achieve that, but there are various ways to do it, and three teenagers (one of them Canadian) have made it: their app, Summarize, went to the top of the Paid Apps chart...

Apple had a great start to calendar 2014: it paid more than $10 billion to developers. But that’s not all: it also claims credit for creating or supporting 1,027,000 jobs in the US. We’re proud to create 1M+ US jobs in all 50 states and ring in another record-breaking year for developers globally. http://t.co/kQeHQVCGou— Tim...

Customers across the globe spent nearly half a billion dollars on apps and in-app purchases during the first week of January, setting a new record for billing from the App Store, Apple announced today. New Year's Day, 2015, marked the single biggest day ever in App Store sales history, the company said in a press release....

SoundCloud, the popular audio streaming platform, has today launched a brand new version of its iPhone app, which sports a minimal, more immersive design that focuses on consuming audio rather than discovering or creating it (via FastCompany). "It's a complete interaction overhaul," says SoundCloud director of Product Design Brian Yeung. Moving away from the standard iTunes inspired...

Shiverware, a Regina-based company that recently developed an app for the Vulcan harp, a favoured instrument of Mr. Spock on the TV series Star Trek, has been awarded a grant of $14,755 by the government of Saskatchewan. According to CBC News, the purpose of the grant is to assist Shiverware in marketing the iPad app that was...