“Hello, World!” Mobile App to a customer in less than 24 hours

That’s right! In todays mobile app world, it’s easy to get a basic “Hello, World” mobile app into the hands of a customer or tester in less than 24 hours! What is “Hello, World!” ??? A “Hello, World!” app is a very simple app that displays the text “Hello, World!”. It is usually the very first software program taught to developers since it can be used as a sanity check…

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How much does a mobile app cost?

This is a question that I hear a lot. And it’s a fair question, for sure. But a very difficult one to answer too. I feel this question comes from the fact that mobile app development is just a different thing. I wouldn’t know how much it costs to build a bridge or raise a cow. I’m not in those realms, so I would not know and I would have…

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AQuA – Another Quote App

AQuA, Another Quote App, is an app with curated quotes and various categories, available for Android and iOS.   What we used to build this: Angular 5.2 Ionic 3.9.2 Cordova Firebase with a real-time Database to store the Quote categories and the Quotes This was an exciting project to start on, but it is a work in progress. We were really excited to use the Firebase backend. To add the…

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Check your Blog or Page setup before sharing to Social Media

You can’t see it, but it should be there! Hidden in the depths or your web page. It’s called metadata, which is defined by Merriam-Webster as “data that provides information about other data”. These are small chunks of data within your webpage that helps describe the content or summarize the content of your web page, whether it’s a blog post, news article or About Me page.   When either you or…

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Bar Bands – Complete re-write

The BarBands mobile app started a couple of years ago, when Ionic 1.x and AngularJS were in full swing. I’ve always liked this app and the potential it has, so I decided to upgrade it. Since I’ve begun building my newer mobile apps with Ionic 3.x and Angular 5.x, I decided to take this one and upgrade it. This was not a difficult task, but a little time consuming as…

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