2015.09.02 / Industry news
Abel Avram
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2025-07-04 / Technology research
Prior to iOS9, you could only use spotlight to find apps by their name. With the announcement of the new iOS9 Search APIs, Apple now allow developers to choose what content from their apps they want to index, as well as how the results appear in spotlight, and what happens when the user taps one of the results. The 3 APIs NSUserActivity The NSUserActivity API was introduced in iOS8 for Handoff, but iOS9 now allows activities to be searchable. You can now provide metadata to these activities, meaning that spotlight can index them. This acts as a history stack, similar to when you are browsing th[…]
by Chris Grant
2025-07-04 / Technology research
Weve talked about APIs and IoT before but in this post we are going to take a look at some of the infrastructure that will be required to provide a mobile API to your IoT service. It goes without saying that mobile devices have become ubiquitous in our modern lives. Whether its a tablet or smartphone, most of us are never far from a connected mobile device. To date, these devices have brought us a number of benefits making services such as telecommunications, the internet and banking (to name just a few) mobile. But there is now another market where the mobile device is ready to feature heavil[…]
by Ian Harris
2025-07-04 / Other
The enterprise software market is poised to explode. In a recent report, Gartner projects app spending by companies to rise 7.5% this year to $149.9 billion, and in 2019, to more than $201 billion. While those numbers may sound exciting for developers working on business-class apps, a key finding is that 41% of those surveyed stated extending capabilities of core enterprise applications was a high priority for their companies. In the end, it isnt about looking for more apps, but better ways to improve work. This comes as a warning signal, particularly on the mobile end of the spectrum. There i[…]
by Daniel Kraft