Since a majority of users spend their time inside of mobile apps, they don’t want to waste it with connectivity issues or flaky WiFi, according to Pete LePage, a developer advocate for Google. Developers play an important role in improving these issues, he said, and they need to watch the future of the mobile web … continue reading
Branch, a mobile deep-linking company focused on contextual app discovery, has announced Deepviews: a new tool that changes how users interact with native mobile apps. Deepviews automatically generates a mobile Web replica of a page within an app, and from a user’s perspective this means they can preview native app content without downloading the app … continue reading
Cyanogen, the Android ROM company behind the CyanogenMod OS fork of Android, has announced a new mobile Web browser it’s developing based on Google’s open-source Chromium browser project. (Related: Microsoft invests in Cyanogen to wrest Android from Google) Gello, teased in a brief Google+ video from Cyanogen team member Joey Rizzoli, showcases features such as … continue reading
A mobile user clicks a link in a smartphone app. Another app automatically opens inside the first to the exact page the user was looking for. When that happens, the user doesn’t question how she or he got there. It just works. Behind those responsive intra-app connections are mobile deep links, the hidden underlying mechanisms … continue reading
