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What are the benefits of Mobile App Consulting?

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Mobile app development is a complex and ever-evolving field. It is crucial to find the right partner in order to achieve success. By working with a knowledgeable mobile app development consultant, you can be sure that you are receiving the best possible advice on how to succeed in the marketplace today. With the world of technology constantly changing, it's difficult to stay on top of all the latest developments. It's even more difficult when you're on your own, or when you don't have the knowledge or resources that a consulting firm can offer. That's why it pays to work with a knowledgeable mobile app development consultant who can help you navigate these changing waters and stay competitive in today's marketplace. Benefits of mobile app development consultant? Mobile app development is quickly becoming the norm. More and more people are turning to their phones as a tool for information, communication, and entertainment. With this huge shift in how we use techn

3 Compelling use cases to showcase the transformation of user identity in Web 3.0

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Web 3.0 is no more a tech jargon to impress your clients and investors, but a hardcore reality, that is slowly but gradually changing the rules of the Internet as we know it. The third generation of the Internet: Web 3.0 eliminates the data privacy risks which engulfed Web 2.0, and is sculpting a decentralized and open Web, which empowers the users, and gives control back to them. In this blog, we will understand how Web 3.0 protocols and foundation is transforming the concept of User Identity with real use cases, and how Blockchain-based applications and concepts are revolutionizing data transfer, digital asset creation and movements, and giving birth to a whole new world of trust, connectivity, and commerce. The journey of Web 3.0 As per Investopedia, Web 3.0 “represents the next iteration or phase of the evolution of the web/internet and potentially could be as disruptive and represent as big a paradigm shift as Web 2.0 did.” When Berners-Lee spearheaded the creation of the Internet

Tripple: A unique inheritance-based social media app that nurtures your digital legacy

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What happens when a social media user is no more? All the pictures, videos, posts, and memories are buried deep into the inter-web and lost forever. Tripple is changing this by unleashing a new era of inheritance-based social media platforms which is centered around protecting & nurturing the users’ digital legacy. TechAhead has been proudly associated with the team behind this powerful social media platform, and together we conceptualized, designed, developed, and launched this app, and attempted to transform social media. Tripple: Creating & Nurturing your digital legacy Tripple social media platform has been designed and developed to empower users, and give them more control over their information. Once a user joins Tripple, they can create Time Ripples, which will have all their past and present memories, which can also be experienced and viewed when they are no more. Users will have full control over who is able to watch their Time Ripples in the future, which content will

React native applications are now turbocharged with hermes engine: find out how?

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Meta (previously Facebook) has decided to make all React Native applications faster, and turbocharged with Hermes Engine, the new default JavaScript engine. In this blog, we will share how React Native apps will become faster, and leaner, with Hermes Engine, and how mobile app developers specializing in React Native platform can leverage this powerful Javascript engine. But before that, let’s find out more about Hermes Engine and the new updates in React Native 0.70 version. What is hermes engine? As the size and capabilities of mobile apps became complex, bigger, and more demanding, the performance of JavaScript frameworks started to deteriorate. This prompted Facebook to develop Hermes Engine in 2019, which is an open-source JavaScript Engine, optimized for mobile apps. For Facebook-centric apps, created using React Native, Facebook created Hermes Engine to make the apps faster, leaner, and performance-centric. Hermes engine becomes default for all react native apps Starting Septembe

Understanding the legacy of HBO Max & its powerful, scalable technical stack

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Over The Top or OTT Platforms have changed the rules of video consumption across the world. By 2027, around 4 billion users will be accessing OTT platforms like HBO Max, Youtube, Netflix, Disney, and more, generating billions of dollars in advertisement revenues, and unleashing a new era in video content and consumption. With more than 200 million OTT users and subscribers across the world (2021), this is a $150 billion industry. One of the biggest, and fastest growing sections within the Internet and entertainment economy. This is the reason that slowly and gradually, traditional TV channels and TV-based media houses are transitioning to OTT, and that includes HBO. In this blog, we will try to understand and dissect the top-of-the-class scalability and powerful performance of the HBO Max app and share some interesting information about its legacy. The Legacy Of HBO Max 49-year-old HBO, which is the oldest and longest continuously operating subscription television service in the United

Decoding Shazam: How does music recognition work with Shazam app?

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It’s a typical scenario: You listen to a song at a restaurant or an event, and then that song stays with you, haunting you, forcing you to find its source and singer. Earlier, the only option was to replicate that song, or a few verses and ask friends and family to hunt for the source. But since 1999, this changed, because that year, a magical app was born, called Shazam. What Exactly Is Shazam? Shazam is an app that can recognize music, movies, advertising, and television shows, and showcase the source and other details about that content. It seems magical, right? In this blog, we will decode the internal working of Shazam, and find out how it works. But first, let’s have an overview of Shazam, and find out some startling facts about this app. Shazam: A brief history Shazam was launched in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee, who teamed up to create a system that can recognize music and other related content and reveal everything about them. In

This is how DoorDash uses Machine Learning & Optimization Models for delighting their customers

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DoorDash is America’s biggest food delivery platform with more than 56% market share, and globally, the world’s 2nd biggest. Although there exists tons of other food apps/platforms which deliver restaurant food to customers, DoorDash has managed to carve a unique niche for itself in this hyper-competitive market by doing just one thing: Delighting its customers, consistently. Foodies who order from DoorDash are known to be fierce loyalists, as if part of a cult, and they dedicatedly order their food from this app, without fail. How has 9-year-old DoorDash been able to delight its customers and their vendors, consistently? What magic recipes have been used to understand their customers and decode their needs and resolve their pain points? The answer lies in Machine Learning and Optimization Models. We will discuss that shortly, but before that, let’s have an overview of DoorDash, and some fascinating statistics about their operations, which will surely amaze you! DoorDash: America’s big