Blog Listing: Mobile

In 2018, 52.2% of all website traffic worldwide was generated through mobile phones, which is roughly double what it was in 2014. As these mobile traffic numbers continue to rise, so does the volume of new mobile apps being introduced, and the velocity of their releases. In this hyper-competitive mobile landscape, users today expect more sophisticated apps and richer experiences,...

GraphQL is an open-source specification for data retrieval from server to client. It was originally developed internally by Facebook in 2012, and made publicly available in 2015. But what drove the need for yet another specification to fetch data from a server? It was the constantly growing adoption of mobile applications. Unlike desktop applications, mobile apps have to rely on...

Mobile phones and apps have become a key part of modern life around the world, and as a result, the number of apps continues to skyrocket (there are at least 2.1 million Android apps available today). As an Android developer, it’s more important than ever to create apps that delight users, because the competition among apps is fierce. And do...

I’m happy to announce the launch of three exciting tech preview features for Akamai’s Ion Mobile Application Performance SDK (MAP SDK). If you’re asking yourself, “What’s MAP SDK?” please click this link to learn more about how MAP SDK helps improve the user experience for your native/hybrid app. If you want to connect with our MAP SDK experts then email...

This Akamai Developer webinar, presented by Akamai mobile experts, provides an overview of common performance challenges and the key considerations for combating those challenges.

Learn how to use the Akamai Mobile Application Performance software development kit (MAP SDK) with the most commonly used, third-party network libraries like HttpUrlConnection, OkHttpClient, Retrofit, and Volley.

The Akamai Mobile Application Performance software development kit (MAP SDK) helps developers build the best possible mobile experience, even when connection speeds are slow or unavailable. MAP SDK supports the most commonly used, third-party image-loading libraries like Glide, Android Universal Image Loader, Picasso, and SDWebImage.

When building mobile apps with the Akamai Mobile Application Performance (MAP) SDK, occasionally you may run into an issue and want to reach out to our support team. To make it easier for everybody, it’s ideal if you can provide a copy of the debug log to the support team.

Google I/O, the annual developer conference held by Google in Mountain View, California, took place this year at Shoreline Amphitheatre near the Google headquarters. As always, there were many new announcements and launches for developers to play around with. In this blog post, I’ll highlight eight of the announcements that our Akamai Developer Relations team found especially exciting. ML Kit...

This is one in a series of posts about the Akamai 2018 Spring Release. For an overview of the Spring Release, see our post here.  As the share of mobile app traffic on the Internet increases, bot operators have learned to take advantage of native app APIs, since they are typically more challenging to protect. This is because traditional methods...