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 :)
Saving Data In Android Using Realm
How to save data for your mobile application? There’re three possible ways: Shared preferences/User defaults, files and databases. When choosing which one to use you should take into account the volume of data your app will work with, mobile data type and what exactly you’ll be doing with the data.
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.
Integrating Unity To Facebook: Authorization And News Sharing
Who wants to make their game more viral? Welcome to the 2nd part of Integrating Unity to Facebook series. I promise there will be some more code this time.
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?
Useful browser extensions and web services for QA testing
In this review, I will try to talk about all the existing testing extensions, which can be useful for work of beginner software testers. I saw the information about testing extensions appeared very often at the specialized sites, and I wonder if they will be appropriate for the workflow.
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).
Top 5 mobile app design trends in 2015
Mobile application design isn’t standing still, but is growing rapidly. Smartphones came into our lives long time ago and occupied a big chunk of it. A huge number of apps are appearing every day, offering us new opportunities on how to use smartphones.
