Google Play Store is one of the largest platforms for publishing, distributing, promoting, and selling Android apps. For beginners, publishing an app to the Play Store can be a confusing and daunting task. At Instamobile, we are publishing a ton of apps to Play Store and App Store, including the demos of our fully functional React Native templates. In this tutorial, we are describing a checklist of how to publish an Android app to the Google Play Store.

As we wrap up the work on our fully functional React Native WordPress template (yes, we launched it and couldn’t be prouder of the result!), I realized that many React Native developers will face the task of integrating WordPress REST API with React Native. As a result, I decided to share our learnings, in order to help out programmers who are building their React Native apps with a WordPress backend.

Next time you start working on a new mobile app, consider using a fully-coded react native starter kit, to speed up your development. At Instamobile, we build react native templates, to help mobile developers and small business owners launch their apps faster. We’ve compiled a list of beautiful React Native templates, that allows entrepreneurs to focus on their product, rather than on reinventing the wheel, by rewriting the boilerplate code every app has (like user authentication & sign up, Facebook login, Firebase integration, etc.).

If you’re a mobile developer like me, you’ve already heard about the new toy everyone is playing with these days: Flutter – Google’s open source SDK for building native apps for iOS and Android from a single codebase. In other words, it’s Google’s competing horse against Facebook’s React Native, to say the least.

In this article, we curated a list of the best Kotlin starter kits that are available as of the time of this writing. Kotlin is the new cool kid in town: Google’s new programming language for coding up Android apps. It brings up a lot of value on the table, through amazing modern features such as higher order functions and lambdas, which were not supported in Java. With Kotlin, Google is shifting the paradigm towards functional programming, which can also be seen as a response to Apple adopting Swift.

Kotlin is extremely powerful and Android developers should adopt it as soon as possible. An effective way of ramping up on Kotlin is to download an existing free starter kit, to learn practically. By getting used to the Kotlin syntax and by making a few changes to existing open-source Kotlin templates, an Android developer can quickly incorporate the new language.

Android Pay and Apple Pay have gained a lot of ground in the recent years and they’ve become the new standard for payments in mobile apps. If you have a native checkout experience in your apps, consider using them as your main method of payment. Otherwise, you’ll be missing on great opportunities. If you’re looking to integrate payments into your mobile app, check out our React Native shopping app, which can save you months of hard work, design and development.

Our mission at Instamobile is to enable mobile developers and entrepreneurs launch their dream app as fast as possible, by automating most of the process required for designing, developing and releasing an app. A part of this is to accept payments in React Native apps, for which we use the React Native Checkout package, an open-source library, that has support for Apple Pay, Android Pay as well as regular credit card payments via Stripe.

One of the most important aspects of designing a mobile app consists of colors. We’re introducing a Color Framework – Chameleon, which can be used by mobile developers to create iOS apps. It provides support for amazing flat colors, color gradients, complementary colors, colors from images, hex codes, and many other features. The framework can be used in both Swift and Objective-C and it’s open-source on Github.