How long have you worked at Push? It’s been more that a year that I have worked at Push. Before working at Push, I was studying as a Master of Science at the University of Saskatchewan. Why did you become a developer? Surprisingly I used to hate programing! It was an absolute nightmare for me
Mobile Payment ~ Google Wallet vs. Apple Pay
It has been a while since Apple introduced its promised feature, Apple Pay. On September 9th 2014, Apple introduced the iPhone 6 to the world and announced that iPhone devices are going to pack a Near Field Communication (NFC) sensor. NFC enables Apple’s devices to transfer data to any other terminal that has NFC. One
Keep It Safe Saskatchewan – A Push Interactions App
I wanted to highlight one of the apps from our portfolio today. This app was published a while ago but I hadn’t written a feature blog about it yet. I thought it was important to highlight this nifty little app, as it has an important role to play! We were contacted by the Saskatchewan Prevention
Meet Our Team – Jordan
How long have you worked at Push? 16 months thus far. Why did you become a developer? At an early age before I even got into high school I was one of those types that always wondered how things were built. Back then I was quite a bit into gaming (still am) and wanted to
Apps as part of the second screen experience
What is the second screen experience? The second screen experience is the phenomenon that many people seem to love to casually browse, shop, or game on mobile devices while watching TV. This became commonplace with the new set of mobile devices, including touch-screen smartphones and tablets, though it was present (but less common) with laptops.
Expanding Horizons – an iOS 8 Review
If you have even a passing interest in mobile technology, you will certainly have read one of the innumerable iOS 8 reviews that have sprung up since that operating system’s release on September 17th. This year, Apple released what – at first glance – looks like an incremental upgrade. I won’t try and run through
Meet Our Team – Robert
How long have you worked at Push? I’ve been working at the company for close to 4 years now and counting. Why did you become a developer? I chose to be a software developer because I have a small love-affair in challenging myself with logical problems (given x and y, solve for z-kind of
How to justify the text in Android CheckBox
Hi everyone This is the first post in a new “How To” series in our blog. In this post I am going to show you how to justify the text of a CheckBox (or TextView) in Android. As you might know, an Android’s CheckBox is a view that includes a TextView and a box-shaped Button,
How to stay updated on the latest mobile news
In our line of work it is important to stay up to date on all of the hottest things in the mobile industry; hottest phones, tablets, apps, development practices etc! I thought I would share our top 3 sites that we use to keep us up to date on all of the latest mobile news: