Google’s I/O 2018 asserts one thing – the next wave of smartphones will run on a generous amount of Artificial Intelligence. Not just Google I/O. Even the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC) also had conversations that were largely revolving around Artificial Intelligence. Major smartphones makers, led by Apple, Google, Samsung, and many others are creating […]

Android architectures components is a set of libraries and guidance for modern architecture. These components can combine to create a testable, and maintainable apps. The new Architecture Components help solve some of the more difficult problems that you may have faced when building your Android applications in the past. Android architecture components are:- Handling Lifecycle […]

Hundreds of mobile apps are getting launched in the app stores every day. In 2016 alone, there were around 1.25 million apps which got published via Play store alone and around 5 Million apps are already present in the market. Studies reveal that 90% of all downloaded apps are used only once and then eventually […]

Today enterprises have realized the importance of having a digital business model to succeed in highly competitive and frugal consumer markets. A recent study about the State of Digital Business Transformation by IDG has revealed that on an average an enterprise can increase its business revenue through a digital model by around 23 %. Start-ups, […]

It is estimated that by 2021, the investments made by enterprises on Artificial Learning and Machine Learning will be more than USD 57.6 Billion. In 2016, this figure was just USD 8 Billion. So why do enterprises take AI and machine learning so seriously? The answer is the decisive capabilities of these technologies and how […]

Mobile-first used to be the war slogan of the tech giant until a few years ago. Now, AI-first has replaced the mobile strategy of businesses. Although we do not realize it, we are living in a world surrounded by AI-enabled personal assistants that do everything from fetching information from the Internet to playing music over […]

Long story, short: Machine Learning needs a torrent of transactional data which is labeled and accurate. Without these 2 elements, it cannot give accurate predictions. Machine Learning is a subset of Artificial Intelligence – the larger technology with promising industrial applications. There is so much of attention that this single piece of technology is receiving […]

Together, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence create a synergy that can advance the digital transformation goals of an enterprise. Big data as a standalone technology has a might of its own to process large volumes of structured and unstructured data. Artificial Intelligence has touched base with all modern-day industries where scalable data analysis is required […]

With Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning becoming an integral part of every enterprise’s digital journey, the choice of a deep learning framework is critical for mission success. Unlike traditional analytical programs, deep learning frameworks are made up of neural networks. They need massive amounts of labeled data, high-power computing environments and complicated data models with […]

In few words, GDPR is a set of new rules that will control the export of personal data of EU citizens outside the European Union. It comes into force starting May 25th, 2018 and will have a transformative effect on how digital and social media business capture, store and use personal data of users, especially […]

We celebrated our 5th birthday in Singapore at the Meeting Point @ JTC LaunchPad, in the presence of our valuable clients, partners, advisors, and employees. A quinquennial is a long time. Few things in our lives or the world last that long—the average tech startup doesn’t quite make two years. At Perfomatix today we have completed […]

Serverless computing is not new to the tech world today. From the days of Netflix to modern day social media platforms like Instagram, some of the world’s most consumed web services rely on Serverless platforms for their daily operations. For beginners, Serverless computing is basically developing an application as a collection of computing components that […]

What is Proguard ? Proguard is free Java class file shrinker, optimizer, obfuscator, and preverifier. It detects and removes unused classes, fields, methods, and attributes. It optimizes bytecode and removes unused instructions. It renames the remaining classes, fields, and methods using short meaningless names. 1. Shrinking – detects and removes unused classes, fields, methods, and […]

A standard protocol SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is used for sending and receiving web service requests and response. In SOAP, the data is platform independent, uses XML format to send and receive the request. A SOAP envelope is used for message exchange between sender and receiver application. To escape from messages getting blocked by […]

Push Notification is a service which notifies a user of new messages or events even when the user is not actively using your application. Let us see how to create an Android Push Notification Using Parse. Parse Database: It is a powerful cloud database that provides a lot of services like push notification services and […]

WebHook Webhook is a service which is using to process or call  some events when something happens. It is like a simple HTTP call back which is process HTTP POST method when something happens before/after in database. WebHooks using parse cloud function Following parameters needed to implements webhooks in parse master: Set true if the […]

Background Jobs Background jobs are set of process that runs behind (background). Thus jobs execute seamlessly and do not disturb foreground processes and operations. Background jobs can be scheduled to run in the night because that time system load is low. Advantages of Background Job 1. It reduces manual effort. 2. No need user interaction and can run […]

AngularJS 2 is a framework mainly focused on the development of mobile apps due to challenges in mobile like performance, load time, etc. AngularJS 2.0 is still in design and prototyping stage. Since it is in the development stage, some of the currently mentioned features will be differently or not at all in the final […]

REST API Representational State Transfer (REST) is is an architectural style used for web development. It relies on a stateless, client-server, cacheable communications protocol. Call a REST API from Parse.com Cloud Function Parse cloud function allows sending HTTP requests to Server using Parse.Cloud.httpRequest functions. This function returns a Promise that will be resolved on a successful HTTP […]

AngularJS is one of the most powerful JavaScript frameworks which is available today. The development process is simple, which is one of the main advantages of Angular JS. This makes it easier for prototyping not only small apps but also full-featured applications on the client side. I would like to share some good tips that […]

With the release of AngularJs 1.4 , the user can enjoy an improved performance with much more enhanced features. It primarily focuses on. Animation – In Angular JS 1.4, the amalgamation of CSS and JS animations is made more flexible. Performance – It implements a rewrite of the Angular expression parser and improvements to scope […]

Kotlin is a statically typed programming language developed by JetBrains, which is designed to run on the Java Virtual Machine and also can be compiled to javascript code. While it’s not syntax-compatible with java, Kotlin for Android is designed to interoperate with java code and is reliant on java code from the existing java class […]

Virtual Reality (VR) – something blows your mind when it comes to ‘reality’. Since Google foresaw the demand of virtual reality, they introduced Google Cardboard in 2014 Google I/O.  As every year’s I/O, Google instigated a smart leap in the ever-growing field of technology. In this year’s  I/O, it is Google Jump! This blog post […]

As Google Team made a context decision to “focus on quality end to end” on their upcoming Android Release M, the central theme of Android M is improving core user experience by which they are focusing on product excellence. With their new release Android M, Google says the 9 key areas will really improve the core […]

While working on a PDF reader application for iOS I had to dig up a lot of information on the web. Having completed the same I am putting down various options I found: 1. Starting with an easy method, Using UIWebView. UIWebView *webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 200, 200)];NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”document” […]

Push Notification Service on Android Apps : Push notifications let your application notify a user of new messages or events even when the user is not actively using your application. On Android devices, when a device receives a push notification, your application’s icon and a message appear in the status bar. As per Google’s documentation […]

AngularJS 1.3 comes with many features and improvements which are not found in AngularJS 1.2. Now 1.3 is mainly focused on: Performance – With many operations like DOM manipulation and digest 3 – 4x faster, you automatically get snappier apps. Forms – Simpler and more capable APIs let you write less code and better match […]

It has only been a few months since I have started out with AngularJS but this JavaScript framework has caught my mind by storm. The unparalleled flexibility and features it delivers are top notch. So like every guy who takes a walk into the unexplored woods, I had road blocks, found shortcuts, discovered hidden treasures […]

Just imagine, you developed an Android application and published it to Google Play. Then you get a user review like ‘This app has too many bugs, I don’t like it’. Hence, it is important that you test the app well before publishing. There are a ton of test scenarios that should be executed before publishing an […]

MonkeyTalk MonkeyTalk is an open source mobile app automation testing tool for Android and iOS. MonkeyTalk is a simple-to-use tool which automates real, functional interactive tests for iOS, Android, Web/HTML5, Hybrid and Flex apps. This open source tool can be used for simple ‘smoke tests’ or for ‘data-driven test’ suites on native, mobile, and hybrid apps, […]

Let us explore today’s varied choices we have for Automated Browser Testing. There are headless WebKit browsers like PhantomJS and cloud-powered multi-browser testing tools like BrowserStack and SauceLabs. Also, Selenium is kind of the gold standard and offers not only a lot of “drivers” but also a lot of language bindings with which drive a […]

Are you working on AngularJS applications? Are you searching for a test framework to do End-to-End testing in Angular applications more effectively? Then this post will help you to taste a familiar automation framework specific to AngularJS called Protractor or commonly referred as Protractor AngularJS. Most of us are familiar with the WebDriver (Selenium) which […]

Nature of work in the IT sector has changed a lot over the recent years. Developers have moved from memorizing code to utilizing reusable code components or boilerplate code generation tools. Google or StackOverflow has taken over the role of mentors and not just being search engines spewing out relevant information. Application frameworks have taken up […]

The big question among developers and business owners these days are on choosing between a hybrid app and a native app. There are some advantages and benefits of choosing each, so does there are some drawbacks. Let me tell you why you should go for a hybrid mobile app as compared to a native app […]

According to a recent survey by Gartner, more than 50% of all mobile apps would be HTML based hybrid apps, by 2016. Deciding whether to go for a native app or a hybrid app is extremely crucial to the success of the app. Here are some features which need to be considered while evaluating native […]

In part 1 of the series, we analyzed why businesses need a mobile app. Also, we touch base on different app categories, platforms, device form factors etc. We also went through the typical workflow within a company on how the decision-making process for developing a mobile app. Also, we looked into specifics of why companies […]

Today smartphone has become man’s best companion. We interact with the virtual world through our mobile phones and this is more time than how much we interact with our families. Why mobile apps? How is it necessary for any business? Let us have a look at some statistics that would help you make up your mind […]

Mobile apps have definitely eased the way we live these days. There is an app for each and everything under the sky. The impact of the changing mobile app trends has revolutionized business and consumer lives during the past few years. Enterprises are turning to mobile apps to leverage better consumer interaction and engagement. According […]

Selling a vision is the toughest thing every startup may face. Getting and retaining new business is a challenge for almost any start-ups. Getting a decent traction of the products and services needs a lot of struggle and patience. So, is there a better way to start a business? Below we discuss five effective tips on how […]

Why mobile app? To get a deeper post on this question let us review some researches done by Gartner. According to Gartner, smartphone shipments across the world would reach 10 billion in 2016. This prediction points at the smartphone boom overtaking human population in number. For every single person of the 7 billion human population, there […]

Taking a business from napkin sketch to thriving startup does not magically happen overnight. Entrepreneurs can toil for years in an effort to turn their idea into a cash-flow positive venture. For street smart entrepreneurs, there is one proven way to hack startup growth: outsource development at an early stage. Too often, entrepreneurs believe all […]

Building a startup when you don’t have adequate coding skills is one of the toughest challenges you’ll face as an entrepreneur. You can have a phenomenal business idea and a planned path to profitability, but without a programmer to turn those plans into reality, your startup is dead in the water. With a bit of […]

Are you tired of coding all night for someone else’s business? Do you have a software idea that you want to take to market? In a fact checker article on small business success by the Washington Post, 50% of businesses are closed after 4 years of starting. Does that mean you have a 50/50 chance […]

Minimum Viable Product Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of the book The Lean Startup, famously quoted, “A minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort”. In layman’s terms, a Minimum Viable Product […]

In today’s smartphone-enabled world, it is almost impossible to build a successful startup without a mobile application. Whether you are entering the enterprise space or B2C business, end users expect your company to offer a mobile application. Unless someone on your team knows how to write code, creating your own app is out of the […]

Over the years MEAN stack has grown as a popular choice among full stack developers. More and more developers joined the parade mainly because MEAN is an all JavaScript stack. Apart from the easier learning and transition curves, MEAN stack also offers many advantages over other developmental stacks making it one of the most preferred […]

A tremendous increase in the number of smartphone users in the global market creates a huge demand for developing more mobile apps as people are spending more time on their phones. Hence, making flawless applications have become a major challenge for the makers to survive among the competitors. The primary reason for the success achieved […]

Cross-platform development for desktop applications was unjustly overlooked until recent times even when it was vastly explored in the mobile arena. Today situations are changing as Macs are aggressively taking over the market previously controlled by Windows. Also, adoption of open source Linux platforms by governmental organisations and public offices across the globe forced developers […]

Siri. Cortana. Bixby. Facebook Bot. And endless others. Chatbots, turbo-charged with Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become commonplace in every facet of our lives. A Chatbot is the most common avatar in which AI comes into our daily lives. With chatbots gaining entry and establishing their presence, mobile apps are slowly taking a backstep. Or rather, […]

Machine Learning (ML) is bringing an irresistible benefit to enterprises- turning inexpensive computing power into skilled (virtual) employees. ML has the massive potential to kickstart an era of self-learning systems that can replace hundreds of manual operations overnight. From predictive analysis and flagging manual errors, the benefits are literally infinite.   Inspired by these possible […]

Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn says, “Data really powers everything that we do.” Data is the new currency for businesses. The volume, variety, velocity and veracity at which we create data has led to the development of Big Data Analytics. Big Data helps pick granular-level information from large and complex datasets made up of structured and […]

5 major technologies – Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and the Internet of Things hold the power to reshape our digital worlds. Business leaders must know how their industries will be impacted by these technologies in the near future and how they must plan ahead to stay competent. With every passing year, […]

Trust and value Our mission at Perfomatix Solutions has always been to cultivate trust and value for our clients as their full-stack technology partner, regardless of the business, industry, or service. Especially through our UI/UX, cloud consulting, and development skills, Perfomatix has consistently strived for nothing short of excellence in our product design and delivery. […]

Android P is found to be the ninth version of the Android operating system. It was first announced by Google on March 7, 2018, and its first developer preview was released on the same day. However, it’s the second preview, the beta version was released on May 8, 2018. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence were […]

At Perfomatix, we are a talented team of developers, designers, and innovators, dedicated to delivering nothing but the best digital services to our clients. Our development services range from building better realities to connecting the devices in our increasingly digital world. Regardless of the industry or the service required, we strive for excellence in all […]

Achieve High-Quality Android Code With Static Code Analysis Tools These are tools that parse and analyze your source code without actually executing it. The goal is to find potential vulnerabilities such as bugs and security flaws and ensure conformance to coding guidelines. Helps to keep your code healthy and maintain code quality. Think like static […]

The tech industry is known for bringing in a barrage of names for their star hires. Over the years, the most sought-after names ranged from Rockstars to Ninjas to A-Players to World Class and much more. Moving forward to the present, the hype hovers around a more complete designation for a technology wizard who can […]

Sundar Pichai says “AI is the future of Google”. Gartner, the global Think Tank says “AI technologies will be in almost every new software products by 2020”. Machine Learning is the medium through which AI becomes commonplace is poised for market dominance. Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are becoming key components in the digital strategy […]

Real-time analytics has become mission-critical for organizations looking to make data-driven business decisions. Whether it is the Internet of things & Anomaly Detection (sensors sending real-time data), high-frequency trading (real-time bidding), social networks (real-time activity), server/traffic monitoring, providing real-time reporting brings in tremendous value. However, to process large amounts of real-time or streaming data requires […]

In today’s era, the analysis of real-time data is becoming critical for SMEs & Large Corporations alike. Industries such as Financial Services, Legal services, IT operation management services requires the analysis of massive amount of real-time data as well as historical data which has to process. Big data is defined by velocity, volume, and variety […]

Apache Kafka can be rightly called a cornerstone technology that is helping enterprises with data pipelines become digital corporations. Kafka was created first in the tech labs of LinkedIn – the world’s biggest network of professionals. Apache Kafka can be summarized in a single sentence as, “a distributed data streaming platform that is horizontally-scalable, fault-tolerant […]

What is IT Event Management? Events can define as the piece of data which gives the information about the system resources. It can be triggered by any incidents, changes in the status or configuration of resource which affects the system resources. Generation of events can be considered as a reminder if any manual action is […]

Data can rehabilitate a war-torn country to economic supremacy. Sounds impossible? Well, W. Edwards Deming achieved that feat and much more with data analytics. After the World War II, Japan was reduced to rubble with hardly any hope for the future. W. Edwards Deming, an American engineer, statistician, and management consultant led its economic rehabilitation […]

Google’s I/O conference is usually a hotbed of innovations. But for 2018, Google literally blew the minds of enthusiasts not just at the venue but worldwide when it unveiled the Duplex an AI-powered conversational feature that would soon be a part of the Google Assistant we use in our phones as well as on Google […]

The possibilities are many, so we decided to pick the top 5 that you can focus on while building apps for supporting business operations or while developing your enterprise website. Adobe in a recent study has found out that 47% of all digitally matured organizations have a clearly defined AI strategy in place. So here […]

The Software is eating the world & need for software development is ever increasing. In order to thrive in the new world, every company needs to become a software company in some sense or at least be willing to heavily invest on software development in today’s world.No matter what industry you’re in, you are expected […]

Today the talk of the town in the tech space is digital transformation. Across sectors and countries, businesses and even government organizations are investing heavily in digital initiatives. The key reason is the number of valuable insights, requisite compliance, and revenue models that it can bring about besides making decision making transparent and faster. The […]

Analyzing data in real-time and deriving business intelligence insights from the processed data has become a popular trend in today’s data world. Real-time data analytics helps in taking meaningful decisions at the right time. In this blog post, we will explore why Kafka used for developing real-time streaming data analytics. What is Kafka? Let us […]

90% of the data in the world today were created in the past 2 years! Right now you, me and the whole world put together churns out 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, says the tech behemoth IBM. Even a single standalone enterprise is churning data from thousands of data points. Right from […]

In the modern digital world, strong online presence has become the mandatory criteria for credibility and brand image. At Perfomatix, we have always given prime importance to building a good online presence through social media, content marketing and also by maintaining profiles in all leading business networking websites. Recently we found Clutch — a ratings […]

Since the first Industrial Revolution, the manufacturing industry has been a victim of several challenges like volatile costs, industrial sickness, poor inventory management, rampant equipment breakdowns and what not. All these issues had one primary cause: lack of data, or rather its under-utilization. A prime reason why manufacturers failed to realize the true potential of […]

16 billion was stolen from 15.4 million U.S. consumers in 2017, reports Javelin Strategy & Research. Customers and businesses alike are being exposed to serious frauds as cybersecurity criminals become adept at sophisticated hacking methods. The risk of account takeover, identity fraud, online shopping scams and similar frauds has a 200% higher probability than the […]

Recruiters around the world struggle with finding the right candidate from a heap of resumes that pour in from job portals, social media, and their official career page. Grouping, analyzing and presenting the data in a unified form takes so much of time that it takes at least 16 days for an interview process can […]

It is estimated that by 2020 number of connected devices are expected to exceed 50 billion. More and more companies are adopting to Machine Learning and IoT and this is the buzzword of the industry right now. Potential areas where Machine Learning & IoT implemented is home automation, self-driving cars, telecom, automobile industry, wearables, oil […]

Augmented Reality and Machine Learning are two disruptive technologies that are shaping new digital operating models. Augmented Reality bridges the gap between the physical and virtual world by overlaying digital snippets above physical objects. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook regards Augmented Reality as a big idea like the smartphone. Machine learning, on the other hand, picks […]

With more than 75% of the worldwide trades being handled by algorithmic trading systems, the question that traders need to ask is not “Whether to use AI?”, but “How to effectively use AI for financial investments & trading?” If used in the right way, Artificial Intelligence can help maximize RoI at the lowest risk level […]

Machine Learning can help eCommerce retailers offer intelligence-powered shopping experiences to customers, increase conversions & curtail cart abandonment. The average customer of today owns and uses at least four devices – mobile, tablet, laptop and a desktop on a daily basis. At least 50-60% of customers use their smartphones and tablets to make online purchases. […]

Early adopters of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are reaping a range of economic benefits. Is your business ready to gain those benefits? The promise of AI & ML has been around since the 1990s. But, in those years of mainframe domination, AI and ML could not mature into a viable business model. The lack […]

From factory floors to farmlands and even living rooms, the Internet of Things has swarmed into every inch of our lives. Sensors and actuators connected to the cloud via Internet are creating a data deluge that is attracting mega investments from enterprises. However, to unlock the true potential of the data deluge that IoT is […]

In the past, whenever a software application had to be created, there was a whole team of experts involved. One guy to write the code, someone to manage the database, someone to ensure quality assurance for the code, someone to deploy it, a project manager to oversee it all, were few of the team players. […]

Today the biggest change to have happened in the area of software development is the transformation of application development from an on-premises ecosystem to a globally dispersed rich internet powered web application. Organizations big and small are developing or utilizing powerful web apps to manage their business and these applications range from simple websites to […]