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Ionic and Cordova used to be a reasonable alternative to native development. Now cross-platform technologies like React Native (RN) promise higher quality with similar cost-effectiveness. So let’s dive deep into the React Native vs Ionic, Cordova/PhoneGap debate and see whether it’s time to migrate your old app.

The idea that technology developed by one company just for one service has turned into a popular framework for Android and iOS app development sounds a bit fantastic. Anyway, it is all about React Native. But why do famous companies choose this technology? Let’s analyze the best React Native apps to find our answer!

Last year, MindK ran an unusual contest as a mobile app development company. For a whole month, we accepted the best mobile app ideas. The winner would get their product developed free of charge. The only caveat was that the app had to be small enough to be built in one month.

WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is an awesome new tech for video/audio chat directly inside your browser or mobile app. The best of its kind. But like many new technologies, it has some nasty pitfalls even for experienced developers. This is the story of our WebRTC chat app.

HIPAA is a complex topic. Technical implementation has many nuances, which hackers exploit and regulators punish. In February 2024, hackers broke into the United Healthcare CHC server, compromising the data of 110 million Americans. The alarming part isn’t the human cost, the sheer scale of the breech or eye-watering $2.45B of losses for United Healthcare.

There’s one thing that stops Single-Page Applications (SPA) from dominating all other kinds of apps. They can take forever to launch. This is a huge problem as even a one-second delay can cost you 7% of conversions.

80 percent of the world’s 500 largest companies are offshoring work to India, because of lower costs and accessibility of labor. European outsourcing destinations such as Ukraine, can challenge India when it comes to service quality and reliability. 

Choosing the perfect payment system for your web application can be a nightmare. While mobile apps can get away with in-app purchases (for a monstrous 30% AppStore cut), web applications need a payment gateway to accept money from their users.

Payment processing services are the gateways to revenue for the majority of web and mobile applications. But when you’re new to online payments, the sheer amount of options seem paralyzing.

SPA vs MPA: what is better for your business? Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, GitHub, and Google services are all built as single page applications (SPAs). Yet, multipage applications (MPAs) still dominate the Internet. In this article, I’m going to objectively evaluate the two approaches as a CTO as a custom application development company, list advantages, drawbacks, and suggest the use cases.

Concerned about user privacy? Well, you should if you want to avoid fines of up to €20 million. GDPR compliance is a must for pretty much every software company that handles EU residents’ data. To make the task easier, we created an in-depth guide to GDPR compliance for SaaS platform owners and software developers.

For most companies, increasing app engagement provides obvious benefits. Engaged users see more ads, buy more products, and pay for subscriptions. Yet in 2023, mobile app retention dropped by 12% on average between iOS and Android. 30-day retention rate is at an all-time low. So, how can you reverse this painful trend to boost the ROI?