Every business owner who decides they need a mobile app faces a difficult choice: to go for native or for cross-platform development.

In the ongoing competition of native vs. cross-platform apps, there still isn’t a clear winner, but there are cases when one type of development has obvious advantages over the other.

Advantages of native app development

• Native apps work well with a device’s built-in features and provide users with smoother UX performance on a particular device.
• Native apps get support from app stores and marketplaces; app stores also veto apps that don’t have enough security or seem suspicious.

What about the advantages of cross-platform apps then?

Full text: https://yalantis.com/blog/native-vs-cross-platform-when-cross-platform-wins/

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A zero-cash future might not be as close as some people predict, but in part it’s already here in the form of numerous payment services that allow people to send and receive money in real time – no need for checkbooks or cash withdrawal from ATMs.Some of these services, like PayPal, are internationally popular, while others are confined to local markets (WeChat payments in the Chinese market, for instance).

But whether local or global, payment apps are changing how we use money in our daily lives.The universal popularity of mobile devices has helped certain types of payment apps like Venmo and clearXchange to grow quickly.

Today we want to look at one other peer-to-peer payment service – Square Cash – in detail.Square Cash is a product of Square Inc., one of the largest payment processing companies in the US market.The Square Cash service allows friends to instantly send money to each other and allows businesses to accept card payments.

In short, it’s a very convenient peer-to-peer payment application: sending money through Square Cash is almost as quick and easy as paying with good old cash.

Full article: How to Build a P2P Payment App Like Square Cash

Social media captures the personal side of your brand, which will draw in the right audience for your app.

Lyft’s Facebook page is all about warm relationships with follower: colorful photos, comments from drivers and passengers, engaging stories, and holiday greetings.

Lyft’s social media team follows all feedback and proactively replies, engaging in a conversation with their followers.

The whole campaign illustrates that Lyft is not just a taxi from point A to point B, but a pleasant experience and a service that creates a wide community.

Runkeeper encourages people with motivational quotes, articles about sports, healthy food recipes and tons of tips and tricks.

Taco Bell – be creative

An in-app calendar is a feature that has become so familiar we hardly take notice.

We see it as an integral part of the application, or as something that should be there by default.

However, getting this calendar into an app is not as easy as it sounds.

No application has a calendar by default.

But there are lots of apps that could really use one.In this article, we’ll help you figure out whether you need a calendar in your app and, if so, how to develop or implement it.To begin, let’s understand what applications use mobile calendars and for what purposes.What type of apps need a calendar?In different apps, a calendar performs different tasks.

But the main goal of a calendar is always the same – to help users manage their events and remember what they’ve planned.Fitness appsGoogle Fit, a fitness tracking app, uses a calendar to track your physical activities and show your progress.

Swift allows you to write less code.

Swift is strongly typed, which means fewer crashes caused by working with types incorrectly.

Swift looks similar to other popular programming languages and resembles English.

Let’s consider what you need to do if you decide to switch from Objective-C to Swift, and determine if making the jump is the right choice for you.

This means that you can add new Swift features to an already existing codebase.

In Objective-C you can call methods on nil objects (more precisely, you can send a message to a nil object), and these methods return a zero value.

The increased popularity of online and mobile banking and e-commerce applications made us see peer-to-peer payments as an essential part of the technology landscape we live in.

Traditionally peer-to-peer payments required writing a check or walking to the nearest ATM, but as of today P2P applications are leading us to a more “walletless” economy than ever before.There is a growing trend for commerce to evolve beyond person-to-market to person-to-person exchange.

In terms of peer-to-peer payments Paypal has dominated the market for the last decade, but now other companies are finally starting to catch up.

According to Business insider, volume of mobile peer-to-peer transactions could reach $86 billion in the US within the next two years.What are peer-to-peer payment apps?The P2P service is sort of like a middleman: peer-to-peer payment services help people transfer funds from their bank account to another person’s account or card using software applications.Peer-to-peer apps are especially popular with younger users who are more tech-savyy and less worried about potential danger of sharing their financial information with a third-party software product.There is a number of mobile applications that people use when they want to send money to each other outside of the established business context - for example, when you pay back your friends, who lent you money for a movie ticket, or you want to split the bill at the restaurant among several people in the group.