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Photo Credit: Matt Henry on Unsplash Apple have been doubling down on privacy in recent years. In its latest move, Apple are requiring all new apps and all app updates in the App Store to include information on how user's information is used in the app. The idea is to...
In the last number of weeks, we've been approached a number of times about development of a contact tracing app to help curb the spread of COVID-19. As we now know, one of the biggest things we can do to fight the spread of the disease is to "flatten the curve". This...
Once the concept of an app is floated, the idea can sometimes take on a life of its own. If you’re not careful, you wake up one day and realise that you’ve created a monster and it’s out of control – crashing around the office like Appzilla munching up time and money...
"Well, just because people are vocal about it, doesn't mean everyone hates it, we should probably run a survey and check analytics""The findings are in! Loads of people hate it, some like it. If we get rid of it we'll annoy 7.24% of our audience""The retention team...
As 4K monitors go, Samsung's U28E590D is pretty good value. Due to a recent change in my laptop (I've moved from a MacBook Pro to the new MacBook Air), I had to swap out my trusty (and old!) Apple Cinema Display, so I chose the Samsung 4K device. Out of the box, I...
Sometimes, we develop an app for customers where they are implementing their own back-end services. The issue of handling push tokens regularly comes up. Often, the business logic may seem difficult to manage all the scenarios, but it really isn't that difficult....
WWDC is a special place for me. I first visited in 2009, and went to every one between 2011 and 2017. It starts with the keynote, which is where Apple tells us what's coming in iOS, MacOS and usually some new capabilities or tools is it making available for...
How a user first enters your app is an important experience. It's the first opportunity for the brand to build trust and set the users expectations. Depending on the type of product, the app onboarding experience will be different. Over the next few minutes, we'll...
The benefits of Cloud Computing and on-demand computing environments are pretty well known. One such service is EC2 from Amazon, which allows business subscribers to run application programs in the computing environment. The EC2 serves as an almost unlimited set of...
At Tapadoo we love when new people join our team. Although Caoife is not entirely new! She did an internship in Tapadoo for six months in 2017 as part of her college course. Here's a little info on Caoife: I studied Computer Science in UCC and had to do six...