The key to having a successful platform these days is app support. But because iOS and Android as so well established, app developers are reluctant to spend the time, effort, and money on new ...

What if Microsoft could convince developers that there is a single "mobile" platform to develop for, rather than three distinct platforms, iOS, Android and the oft-neglected Windows? When you purchase ...

The day after announcing it had purchased cross-platform mobile tool vendor Xamarin, Microsoft officials are offering a few new details about the company's Universal Windows Platforms onboarding ...

Microsoft is relaunching its app store to be more useful and attract developers to the platform. Changes could help Microsoft compete with Apple.

There was a time when you had to choose between creating universal mobile apps and native apps. Universal apps used web technologies like HTML and JavaScript, which often performed badly in mobile ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched ...

Apple fans who were waiting for an iPhone 12 unveiling at the Apple Event today may be a little disappointed. But, Apple gave them a treat to hold them over instead: an announcement that iOS 14 is ...

Slide Over works alongside the window-based iPadOS 26 multitasking functionality, so you can have multiple windows open and still swipe over to quickly access a Slide Over app ... Enter Slide Over.