UX Practices from Best Travel Sites: Functionality and Usability
Whether you want to launch a new travel site or improve the existing, user experience (UX) is the first thing to consider. Attractive and easy-to-use sites achieve better user behavior metrics, which results in a higher conversion rate.
How to Set up a Symfony Project for Work with Docker Subdomains
There are situations when Symfony needs routing based on subdomains. For example, when we deal with various functional clusters within one project or one repository.
Today we will review framework under the terrible name CoreData, from Apple. I hate it so much. This is Apple's solution to work with SQLite (a relational database). CoreData can store Swift objects in SQLite, and also it can perform the reverse operation.
ChatKit Library for Android Apps
In the world of iOS development there is a well-known JSQMessagesViewController library which helps iOS-developers to implement UI chat in their applications easily. Unfortunately, Android developers are deprived of such a wonderful tool.
CSS Transitions And Animations. Motion Path Module CSS
Before CSS3 rising, front-end developers were tossed into a cold sweat, when they heard a word «animation». And all because one reason: it was very non-trivial task to make quality and beautiful animation at those old days. CSS could not do it, so all the animations were made with JavaScript.
Now it's time to make a flexible architecture for Android using DataBinding!
The time has come to share with you this small article on testing Android app logic. It didn’t occur to me that it is a significant component of Android app development for quite a time but it’s never too late to learn, neither for you, nor for me :)
What happens within the system when a user touches the screen? And even more important — how to handle it right? The time has come to figure everything out once and for all! Today’s post is on what I’ve learned about Android Touch System and my experience with it.
How to Create and Publish Your First Android Library
Sooner or later every Android developer accumulates a fair amount of ready-made solutions and decides that it would be great to share them with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, most of us never get down to it since every solution should be turned into a separate library and put into a separate open repository.
Animation In IOS: Native Solutions And Third-Party Frameworks
Today we will take a look at a couple of quite simple examples, learn about pros and cons of what Apple has to offer in terms of animation and get ourselves familiar with some third-party frameworks I personally find to be quite useful for handling animation. I will also show you how to use UIKit Dynamics and Motion Effects available starting from iOS 7.
Beyond MVC: How to Use MVVM in iOS
Today we’re going to talk about MVVM pattern. We will discuss its advantages in comparison to MVC and take a look at two implementation examples, a small and a big one. You will be able to use the latter in your work as an example of a good architecture for almost any MVVM project. So, let’s start with the basics :)
DataBinding: How To Develop Android Apps Faster
Every time you look at those numerous lines of code with findViewById and ternary operations with visibility you want Cthulhu to finally revel across the Earth so you don’t have to see it anymore, don’t you? But trust me, there’s a way. And we will show it to you under cut.
Grunt and Gulp are task runners that allow front-end developers to quickly build web apps and automate repetitive processes, such as file concatenation (joining), image, CSS and JavaScript compression. Let’s find out what is the difference between these two popular tools.
Code Commenting And PHP Documentation Generation
Why do we need comments in code? How to write them? Where they are necessary and where they are not? How to comment code correctly? How to create the same documentation style for all members of the team? What are the tools for documentation generation?
Improve Website Performance Using Varnish Software: Make Your High-Traffic Site Load Faster
Sooner or later, while gaining new users, every project faces a problem of slow server response time. The most efficient solution to improve website performance (this article applies to highly loaded Symfony2 sites) is using the Varnish caching proxy server with support for Edge Side Includes (ESI).
