Category: Mobile App Development

Creating a successful app requires expertise in a range of skills. In our six years of business, we’ve built a world-class team largely consisting of strategists, designers, and developers. For those of you looking to start your own app journey, this blog post serves as a resource outlining the core skills needed in an app…

You’ve seen the lists of “best new apps” and “top apps of the year.” What makes these apps any better than the thousands of others in app stores? What makes an app great? A catchy name and fancy animations help, but real quality comes from how well the app addresses these elements: purpose, audience, stability, and polish. We polled…

Developers are adopting Vue.js at a rapid pace. Boasting over 167,000 stars on GitHub, this modern, modular JavaScript library has become a compelling option for web app development. This adoption is in no small part due to Vue.js being so easy to integrate into an existing project. It’s fast. It’s extremely powerful. And it allows you to build…

We’ve been pushing new and updated apps to app stores for seven years now. Over time, Savvy Apps continues to evolve our approach to ensure every app is released as flawlessly as possible. Still, apps have gotten much more complex over time with many more items to check. Whether it’s something more basic like testing…

Over the last few years Firebase has seen success with what’s now called its Realtime Database, a tool that allows developers to set up and provision a back-end database as a service more easily. For example, we previously shared our experience at Savvy Apps with Realtime Database on Google’s Firebase blog for our work with Sprynt. Developers continue to…

We build apps of all shapes and sizes here at Savvy Apps, but a common element is that they communicate with servers. Very few apps today operate without some sort of Internet connectivity, meaning that they interact with a backend, web services, or APIs. These APIs could be provided by Google, Amazon, Facebook, or comparable third-parties. They…

Once the first version of an app has been built in anywhere from 4-6 months—possibly longer or shorter—the next step is to begin to maintain and support that app. The most popular apps on the app stores often see updates as frequently as weekly while other release cycles may happen once or twice a month. In this…

From Agenda Calendar to Today Weather and even more recently, CatoAudio for The Cato Institute, we’ve successfully named apps that have been featured by Apple and used by hundreds of thousands of app store users. Naming an app—or a business—is not simple task. Here are some considerations to make when naming an app. Set the…