To effectively develop an app for iOS or Android, IT must understand how their development environments differ. It's easy to get started in mobile software development -- administrators just have to ...

Apple's Swift programming language can now be used to develop for Android, and share code with iOS apps. Swift was launched by Apple in 2014 — although it had secretly been in development since 2010.

Organizations developing mobile applications must choose between two dominant platforms: Apple's iOS ecosystem and Google's Android ecosystem. Each platform offers different programming languages, ...