All posts by kamal.chandramohan

How can a mobile application lower your motor insurance premium and improve safety?

Insurance premiums are priced, based on several different factors like age, gender, location, vehicle make, model, type, power output, driving record factors like accidents, claims etc. Insurance providers use these factors to even classify the…

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Aspire’s Mobile CoE and it’s focus on Xamarin

We live in a world where more than 80% of connected devices sold are smartphones and tablets.Unfortunately the market is heavily fragmented with 3 major Platform providers, namely iOS, Android and Windows. This poses a…

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Dalvik to ART, Why a change of runtime in Android Lollipop?

Android has been evolving at a fast pace, but one crucial component of the operating system did not undergo much changes in the last couple of years. The Dalvik run time(Dalvik – named after a…

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Understanding In-memory Analytics

When we say something is in-memory, it means residing in the RAM (Random Access Memory) against the disk. For a CPU to do some data processing, the data needs to be in-memory and if the…

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iOS 8 New APIs – Part II

Following last week’s blog, here are some more of the exciting new feature introduced by Apple. 1. Safari password sharing iOS 8 will make it easier to set up and login to apps with a…

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iOS 8 New APIs

Apple has released  its new iOS 8 operating system and  here  are some of the exciting new feature introduced by Apple that  you might be interested in. Let’s get to understand some of the exciting…

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What is inside Amazon Fire OS?

Fire OS from Amazon, is primarily forked from Android 2.3.3. Forking in Software Development refers to the practice of taking a copy source code of a software package and developing another version of software on…

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Why Amazon needs its own Smartphone?

60% of the adults in the US already own a smart phone. More than 80% of the US population in the 18 – 34 demographic already have a smart phone. More than 90% of the…

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What is mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS)?

BaaS, also known as mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS), is a technique of connecting mobile apps to cloud services. A substitute to mobile middleware, the BaaS approach uses unified application programming interfaces (APIs) and software developer’s…

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HTML5 – Trends & Changes Expected in 2014

Prakash Nagaswamy, one of Aspire’s Senior Mobile Consultant summarizes the expected changes and trends in HTML5  in 2014… HTML5 is not a standalone technology going to solve the UI puzzle, it will be a coordinated orchestration of…

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Enterprise Mobility – Challenges

Why Enterprises need a Mobile First strategy? Mobility remains the top priority for most of the enterprises.  Enterprises want to enable mobile work force in order to increase their employee productivity and thereby ensure smooth…

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Native and HTML5 – How to choose?

The app development approach battle is heating up between native apps and HTML5 web apps. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages, but which is the right development approach for my enterprise is the key…

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