Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]
Apple will now let App Store developers talk to their customers about buying direct
Apple announced today it has reached a proposed settlement (embedded below) in a lawsuit filed against it by developers in the United States. The agreement, which is still pending court approval, includes a few changes, the biggest one being that developers will be able to share information on how to pay for purchases outside of […]
TikTok is building its own AR development platform, TikTok Effect Studio
Both Facebook and Snap offer tools that allow developers to build out augmented reality (AR) experiences and features for their own respective family of apps. Now, TikTok is looking to do the same. The company recently launched a new creative toolset called TikTok Effect Studio, currently in private beta testing, which will allow its own […]
This Week in Apps: Instagram restricts teens’ accounts, Elon Musk criticizes App Store fees, Google Play’s new policies
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]
Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing
Developer marketing came up in our conversation with strategic marketing firm MKT1, so we called on content marketing production company Draft.dev’s CEO Karl Hughes to learn more.
Google unveils its proposed ‘safety section’ for apps on Google Play
In the user interface concept Google debuted today, developers are now able to see how this feature will look to the end user.
Google I/O 2021: 大事な場面で役に立つこと
この記事は Sundar Pichai による Google The Keyword Blog の記事 “Being helpful in moments that matter” を元に翻訳・加筆したものです。詳しくは元記事をご覧ください。 今年、Google I/O デベロッパー カンファレンスを再び開催できたことを嬉しく思います。5 月 18 日の朝（日本時間 5 月 19 日早朝）、マウンテンビューのキャンパスに車を停めると、日…