Native vs Cross-platform: What to Choose for Mobile App Development in 2023
One of the most important decisions to make before starting to build a mobile app relates to the platform: should you go for native or cross-platform app development?
Let’s find out!
Why You Should Outsource Your Mobile App Development (to Romania)
Outsourcing is a great way for business owners to save time, money, and effort, and get a new mobile product on the market fast. Here’s why Romania is one of the best destinations to outsource your mobile app development.
We are now part of the top 7% of global software engineering vendors at Pangea
We are kicking off 2022 with great news for X2 Mobile, and we couldn't wait to share them with you! We are a verified member of the Pangea community. Starting with this month, we are part of an elite community representing the top 7% of the global software engineering vendors. And we did it big time: the X2 Mobile admission score was 9.4 (while the average admission score is 8.4).
Why Digitalization Is Essential for the Education Industry Post-Pandemic
It took a global pandemic to fast-track changes in the education sector, and bring innovation and digitization to the forefront - but it’s happening. Here’s how to build a digital education product that lasts.
The advantages of a mobile-first product strategy
What is the first thing you reach out for when you wake up in the morning?
We’re going to take a wild guess and assume it’s your smartphone. Even if it’s just to turn off your alarm or look at the time, it’s more than likely that your phone will be the first thing you touch in the morning.
We’ve become so attached to our smartphones (some would even say dependent or addicted, but we won’t go there) that it’s impossible to imagine our lives without them. Just think about it; what if apps like Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps, Spotify, or Revolut didn’t exist? What if you could only access these platforms on a desktop computer? If the mere thought sends shivers down your spine, don’t worry, you are not alone.
How to Choose Your App Development Partner
With countless development companies available, an important question arises.
How do you choose a partner that understands your vision and delivers results without cutting corners and leaving you with unstable apps?
To help you make an informed decision, let’s go over the 7 essential things you need to consider before selecting the right app development partner.
UX & UI Explained: What’s the catch?
There are so many critical areas of your business that you have to pay attention to. Why should you care about something as trivial as design, visual elements and user-friendliness when it comes to digital products?
Because 88% of users are less likely to return to a website after a bad user experience. Also, mobile users are 5 times more likely to abandon a task if the website isn’t optimized for mobile.
Implementing a network filter on an iOS device
With the release of iOS 9 in September 2015, Apple added a new functionality to the Network Extension framework. This feature enables an application to monitor and filter the entire network traffic from all the applications installed on the device.
Education and technology into the 2020s: who’s next?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Of course Dickens was not referring to the emerging trend of digitalisation. And I bet he wouldn’t have thought that this society-transforming innovation could actually influence the way children are taught. But he got one thing right: this is how people react when it comes to change. We experience conflicting emotions because we long for change but we also fear it.
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X2 Mobile Development S.R.L. anunta lansarea proiectul cu titlul “Creșterea competitivității X2 Mobile Development S.R.L.” proiect nr RUE 3030 înscris în cadrul Măsurii “Granturi pentru capital de lucru”, instituită prin OUG nr 130/2020.
Improving App Store rating
Even though kids use a given technology, they don’t necessarily understand it technically. Like most adults who don’t understand how a microwave oven works, kids do not feel they need to understand the underlying mechanisms of mobile apps and devices before using it.
Building the first watch app for Android Wear 2.0
I recently had the pleasure to implement Cluj-Napoca Transport on Android Wear 2.0. Android Wear is a version of Google's Android operating system designed for smart watches and other wearables. Google did a big update for the operating system on Feb 2017 and that’s how Android Wear 2.0 was born.
Everything you need to know about the App Store publishing
Whether you are a designer, developer, marketer or the client, you might want to have a better understanding of how the process of 'publishing an app' to the App Store, works and what it requires.
How to conform to Apple's requirements regarding icons
Having to deal with Apple and its requirements sometimes gets you and starts to push your buttons. And you might say..
What the hell should I do?
The simple answer would be..
How to rebrand an iOS app efficiently?
Let's say you built an excellent iOS app, it became highly successful and because of that, some people came to you and asked if you could rebrand it so they can use it in their own organisation. If the proposed conditions are convenient (you want to sell your app like that, you are pleased with the money you get, etc.), you'll do it in a reasonable amount of time.
Handling Canon DSLR cameras from Objective-C Mac OS X app
For one of our clients we had to use professional cameras to take pictures of various objects inside a warehouse. Therefore, we created a Mac OS app that does what the client needs. The Mac app is connected to 3 DSLR cameras to take quality pictures of the shipments boxes and the items stored in them. We apply some image processing on these pictures to detect items, barcodes and documents. So, in what follows we will talk about handling Canon DSLR from Mac OS Application.
Hello world!
Hello! We are X2 Mobile, a mobile software development company located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The mobile technologies for which we develop apps are iOS and Android, and we also develop apps for Mac OS X. This is our first blog post in which we will introduce ourselves, tell you why we started a blog and what we plan to write in it.