Blog posts and articles from Arter Kirkwood & Associates, a mobile app development company based in Alberta, Canada. Read the insights and findings from our top authors below. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like us to write on a particular topic.

3-Step Guide to Unlocking Benefits of Android Push Notifications

February 28, 2017 / by Wes Byers / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Previously, we showed you how to start unlocking benefits of iOS push notifications with our 4-step how-to guide. Now, we will continue with Android push notifications using Firebase Cloud Messaging. Push notifications can have huge benefits for mobile app user engagement. An average of 62% of users will re-open the app the following month when a push […]

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3-Steps to Building a Notification Pusher with Amazon SNS and Ruby

February 20, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Much research on push notification behaviour focuses on the potential for boosting user engagement. Increased engagement hinges on integration with back end company systems to initiate notification sending and provide notification message content. That integration can be hard: a recent Gartner report commented that integration is often the largest part of the effort of delivering […]

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Step-by-Step Guide to Setup iOS Push Notifications with Amazon SNS

February 14, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Recent research shows that while there are differences in user behaviour in response to notifications between iOS and Android platforms, user engagement can be dramatically increased on both platforms with the effective use of notifications. Your push notification solution needs to be cross platform. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a fast, flexible notification […]

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Detect When iOS AVPlayer Finishes Buffering Using Swift

February 9, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

This is based on the article “Detect when audio playback begins with AVPlayer in iOS” we published back in 2014. Plenty has changed in the iOS SDK since then, but the general technique here still applies. We’ve updated the code to use Swift 3, and added a sample Xcode project you can download. In the Call of […]

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10 Must-Have Measures For Push Notifications

February 6, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Research proves push notifications have a dramatic effect on an app’s ability to engage users. Ensuring the success of an ongoing notification strategy requires insight into the reliability and usefulness of your push notification solution. Push notification solutions can vary in technical implementation, but the process typically involves these steps: Some event within a company system […]

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Initialize Your iOS Apps for Push Notifications in 5-Steps

February 2, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

If you want to boost user engagement with your iOS Apps through- push notifications, you’re going to need to initialize support for notification receiving in your App. Research found that users who opted in to push messages averaged 3x more app launches than those who opted out. To give users the ability to opt-in to […]

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NOW AVAILABLE! Our Exclusive MobilizeWorx Notification Model!

February 1, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

If your app users find the notifications you’re sending distracting or irrelevant, you may be doing more harm than good. Surveys show that over half of the respondents found push messages to be “an annoying distraction.” And 32% of respondents said they would stop using the app altogether if they received just 6 to 10 messages in […]

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What’s New in iOS 10.3 for App Developers

January 30, 2017 / by Evan Kirkwood / Uncategorized / 0 comments

Last week Apple released the first beta for iOS 10.3 to developers. While the “Find My AirPods” mode may be the most talked about feature, the update includes a number of new features for custom mobile app developers. SiriKit has been updated with new APIs, and iOS 10.3 updates the device file system to use Apple […]

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