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Why do some app makers limit their app to certain regions?
For example, many dating apps are limited to only certain cities of the USA. Or, they launch first in only regions and then may be unlocked across the country. Why the restriction? Why wouldn't you ...
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Writing apps for Android and Apple phone simultaneously
So, recently I have been looking into developing apps. I joined a school group who wanted to develop an app, problem being that I had an Android phone and my friends all had Apple phones. I know of ...
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For your application it's better to have your own online database or to use some online database service? [closed]
I would like to create an application that will interacts with an online database and i want to host my own online database on an old computer, but i think that in this case i should handle the ...
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App Development in a remote server
I am planning to develop a mobile app. But I don't want my developer team to have copies of my code in their local system (like in the case of git where you can clone the repo to your local system). ...
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Android app development (daily journal type)
I want to get help from you all about building an android app that is capable of logging daily journal type data. I want to have these feature primarily in the app: Capable of logging the daily logs. ...
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How do app developers protect their app when a user decompiles it?
I've been trying my hand at building apps with Flutter and Dart. I noticed in my apps that if someone decompiled my app they could access a whole lot of things I didn't want them to access. For ...
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GPS application targeting mobile devices
I'm working on making a product for tracking workers/staffs locations and in that case the application need to be able to run on the phone for at least 10 hours without the phone suddenly closing the ...
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Logic App next number
I have a need to generate a next number for each file type my Logic Apps is generating. My Logic App is doing some translations between an WMS and a customer's ERP. The issue is the customer is ...
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Are universal apps any less efficient than platform-specific apps?
I have once seen a universal download for an app. It was said to work on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. If the exact same app is designed to work on three different without changing any code. For example, ...
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What is done when an urgent fix for an app is needed but updates have to be approved by Apple/Google etc?
I have very little experience in this area, so sorry if I use any incorrect terminology or if this is a stupid/simplistic question in general. But from what I understand, when a developer wants to ...
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Making launch screens with single color background
In iOS App there is something called a “launch screen” (the screen that appear before the app actually launches and is not equivalent to the splash screen), which can be provided by two ways, either ...
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What would cause a company to need to move their app on the iOS App Store to different "app"?
I'm not sure what SE site to ask this on, but I figure this is something somebody in the SE community has the answer. Feel free to move this question if this is the wrong place. Recently I launched ...
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Geofence triggered credit card transaction
I have a question about a geofence triggered action. Does anyone know if you can trigger a credit card transaction by location? An app I'm having a guy work on requires this function and the guy says ...
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How does an app send an order to a retailer? What happens under the hood?
I am wondering how the apps that allow a user to choose an item and, once the user has selected an item and checked out, give the retailer information about order that has been placed. For ...
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RESTful API with session tokens.. ehh?
After looking at a lot of session/state debates with regard to REST and finding nothing concrete, I'm just going to cut to the chase and ask myself. Developing a RESTful API as a backend for a mobile ...
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