Mobile apps have changed the way businesses operate in our world today. Awe-inspiring things are happening in all areas of life. If you take a look, it’s easy to see that online, especially mobile presence; this is something every business is after. The reasons for these are simple and obvious, better brand awareness and you can build mutual loyalty with your customers, and your sales increase. In our world today, there is a mobile app for everything. Lots of businesses are improving their customer experience with mobile apps, and the restaurant business is no exception.

Consider having to compete with only hundreds of apps in the App Store. It sounds like every app developer dream! Launching an app isn’t easy, but it’s probably not as hard as you think either. We’ve gathered these steps that you can follow in order to launch your app on your iOS and Android devices. Let’s see how to launch your mobile app correctly, in order to maximize your chances of success.

The Salon and Spa is one industry that’s based on repeated business. Back in the 60s, 70s and 80s spa and salon services like massages, haircuts, manicure, and pedicure were luxurious services generally provided for rich elites as it depends on affluence. In recent times, people have become more concerned about their hairstyle and overall personality. In the past, there was a usual notion that it is the females who are more concerned about their looks, hair, and skin but with the changing trends, even men are willing to groom their body and particularly take care of their hair.

Google Play Store is one of the largest platforms for publishing, distributing, promoting, and selling Android apps. For beginners, publishing an app to the Play Store can be a confusing and daunting task. At Instamobile, we are publishing a ton of apps to Play Store and App Store, including the demos of our fully functional React Native templates. In this tutorial, we are describing a checklist of how to publish an Android app to the Google Play Store.

As we wrap up the work on our fully functional React Native WordPress template (yes, we launched it and couldn’t be prouder of the result!), I realized that many React Native developers will face the task of integrating WordPress REST API with React Native. As a result, I decided to share our learnings, in order to help out programmers who are building their React Native apps with a WordPress backend.

Next time you start working on a new mobile app, consider using a fully-coded react native starter kit, to speed up your development. At Instamobile, we build react native templates, to help mobile developers and small business owners launch their apps faster. We’ve compiled a list of beautiful React Native templates, that allows entrepreneurs to focus on their product, rather than on reinventing the wheel, by rewriting the boilerplate code every app has (like user authentication & sign up, Facebook login, Firebase integration, etc.).

If you’re a mobile developer like me, you’ve already heard about the new toy everyone is playing with these days: Flutter – Google’s open source SDK for building native apps for iOS and Android from a single codebase. In other words, it’s Google’s competing horse against Facebook’s React Native, to say the least.

In this article, we curated a list of the best Kotlin starter kits that are available as of the time of this writing. Kotlin is the new cool kid in town: Google’s new programming language for coding up Android apps. It brings up a lot of value on the table, through amazing modern features such as higher order functions and lambdas, which were not supported in Java. With Kotlin, Google is shifting the paradigm towards functional programming, which can also be seen as a response to Apple adopting Swift.

Kotlin is extremely powerful and Android developers should adopt it as soon as possible. An effective way of ramping up on Kotlin is to download an existing free starter kit, to learn practically. By getting used to the Kotlin syntax and by making a few changes to existing open-source Kotlin templates, an Android developer can quickly incorporate the new language.

Android Pay and Apple Pay have gained a lot of ground in the recent years and they’ve become the new standard for payments in mobile apps. If you have a native checkout experience in your apps, consider using them as your main method of payment. Otherwise, you’ll be missing on great opportunities. If you’re looking to integrate payments into your mobile app, check out our React Native shopping app, which can save you months of hard work, design and development.

Our mission at Instamobile is to enable mobile developers and entrepreneurs launch their dream app as fast as possible, by automating most of the process required for designing, developing and releasing an app. A part of this is to accept payments in React Native apps, for which we use the React Native Checkout package, an open-source library, that has support for Apple Pay, Android Pay as well as regular credit card payments via Stripe.