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Chris Ward reports back from Finovate 2015 in London to discover the part that mobile is playing in FinTech.

Joyce Echessa talks through the changes in XCode 6 that mean Interface Builder now allows you to edit custom controls and see them rendered live.

Now CES is well and truly over, Charles Costa takes a moment to reflect on the trends that emerged for wearble application developers.

Dave Albert takes a look at strategies for personalizing user experience in our Apps. Taking a different perspective from the usual retail focus.

Richa Jain highlights some of the major differences between desktop and mobile design and approaches on how to solve them.

Charles Costa shows us 5 tips to improve your app marketplace ranking and gain those crucial views and downloads.

Rico Zuniga finishes our four part tutorial on game programming with Swift, adding final polish to the game.

Meteor.js is a promising JavaScript framework, that also comes prepackaged with Cordova support, ideal for mobile development. David Turnbull shows us more.

Abbas Suterwala demonstrates how to use several Android ImageViews to easily display and handle images in your app.

Fax Quintus tells us the story of how his startup came up with the software and hardware to make mobile Virtual Reality… A Reality.

In part three of our tutorial on creating a game in Swift, Rico Zuniga shows how to create interactions and basic gameplay.

Tahir Taous looks at 5 services for testing your mobile apps and getting user feedback quickly.

Dave Albert looks at a new cross platform mobile development option that goes beyond providing a coding framework with an entire suite of workflow tools.

Elio Qoshi reviews the year that was 2014 for Firefox OS and looks forward to 2015.

Piotr Pawlak walks us through a promising new SaaS that helps entrepreneurs build native apps with a simple point and click interface.

Recent Developments in Android and iOS have increased the potential of Push Notifications. Dave Albert explores the possibilities.

Following on from our last tutorial on the Junior Framework, Jay Raj looks at connecting it to a backend to build a 'to do' app.

Jordan Morgan outlines the steps you should consider before embarking on your next iOS app.

Your great app launched well and then your users forgot about it. Dave Albert looks at tips and advice on how to keep your users coming back.

The Codename One Designer Tool allows developers to create fast cross platform apps semi-visually. Aldo Ziflaj takes a look.

Another HTML5 Mobile Web framework! Yes, Jay Raj takes a look at Mootor.

The default Android emulator is renowned for it's slowness. Joyce Echessa looks at one alternative, Genymotion.

Codename One allows developers to write in Java and build them into native code for various mobile platforms. Too good to be true? Aldo Ziflaj investigates.

Qt has been with us for some time, but it still offers a lot of easy options for cross platform app development. Jay Raj takes a look.

Junior is yet another Front-end Framework for HTML 5 Mobile Apps. How does it stack up against all the others? Jay Ray shows us through a todo tutorial.

Mozilla have created Appmaker to help people learn to code through a simple drag and drop interface. Elio Qoshi tells us more.

In this tutorial Jay Raj looks at how to run apps built for the Chrome browser on a mobile device with Cordova.

One of iOS 8s most powerful new features is the concept of extensions and it's surprisingly easy to create one for your App. Jordan Morgan shows you how.

With the multitude of devices, we no longer have complete control over how icons will look. Annarita Tranfici looks at solutions to tackle this challenge.

The options for hybrid mobile app development change on an almost weekly basis. Jay Ray shows us his favorite seven.