Making Effective M-Commerce Apps

marketing on 8 January 2020 ■ No Comments

• Client guide
• UX
• Design
• Development

Most marketing and e-commerce experts agree that m-commerce applications or loyalty applications generate business benefits. Apart from constituting an additional sales and communication channel, which is always within the customers’ reach, apps provide high quality data as users never log out, which allows precise profiling, unavailable through web solutions. However, for an everyday end-user such […]

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Passing data between fragments using ViewModel

Patryk Kubiak on 17 January 2019 ■ No Comments

• Development

Android Jetpack was released by Google to fulfil three main objectives: acceleration of programming, removal of redundant code, and improvements to product quality. For half a year Google has been trying to convince us to use their components. But there are problems, which have prevented developers from using Jetpack. One of these is the new way of passing data between the fragments, which I want to explain in this article.

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Why Becoming an Android Developer is Worth Your While?

Tobiasz Olejnik on 20 November 2018 ■ No Comments

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Sooner or later in the life of every developer there comes a moment when they have to decide which field of technology seems the most interesting to them and find out which tools allow them to solve certain problems. If you are wondering whether programming for the Android operating system is for you, today I will present the advantages, tools, programming languages for the Android platform and maybe I will help you to make a decision.

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What is the difference between a Quality Assurance Specialist and a Tester?

Appchance on 26 September 2018 ■ No Comments

• Development

The word ‘tester’ is associated with a person who performs some sort of tests, so simply checks something. In IT, the position of a person whose main responsibility is to find bugs in software has many names. In this article, we have a look for a differences between Tester and Quality Assurance Specialist work.

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Automate Fabric Beta distribution with Fastlane

Mateusz Tylman on 5 September 2018 ■ No Comments

• Development

Managing the publishing new versions of beta applications can be a pain. You must remember about updating the version’s number, setting up the right target or choosing specific emails from the list on Fabric. It’s easy to forget about one of these things when the newest version of the app is ready. That’s why I decided to use the fantastic Fastlane tool which enabled me to fully automate those actions.

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How to create your own Pod?

Piotr Łopata on 19 July 2018 ■ No Comments

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Everyone who comes into contact with programming for iOS or macOS has certainly heard the term CocoaPods. It’s a so-called dependency manager, which allows you to add libraries to your project in a simple and pleasant way. It is so popular that almost every public library is available through the use of CocoaPods. We often create our own components, extensions that we use in many projects. Maintaining such physical files is very inefficient. The solution may be to create your own Pod, which will introduce order and automation

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Step by step guide on how to use Mapbox on iOS

Maciej Jurgielanis on 10 May 2018 ■ 4 Comments

• Development

Have you ever thought about building an application around navigation which allows users to explore places using proper maps? Today we’re going to set up and run “your own Google Maps” using Mapbox (just without Google). The first steps process is fairly simple. The requirements here are: having Xcode installed on your system, minimum iOS development experience and a Mapbox account.

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CoreNFC for iOS 11: How to make an NFC Reader for your iPhone.

Michał Banaszyński on 1 February 2018 ■ 2 Comments

• Development

NFC Tags are passive devices – it means that they do not need any traditional power supply to work. They are triggered by a device present in a supported range. In order to power up the tag, electromagnetic induction needs to be created to produce a current used to transfer data into an active device (a phone in this case). That is why your phone needs to be within close range of the tag for this to work. There are a few things we need to do before we type the first line of code. To support NFC, the project needs a few tweaks.

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How to better streamline the business logic of the application with Trailblazer abstraction?

Marcin Lazar on 25 January 2018 ■ No Comments

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Trailblazer is a typical framework that adds more levels of abstraction to the basic MVC pattern. It has much better technological solutions than Rails and a defined internal convention to be followed. A lot could be written about Trailblazer, but this article is not a coding tutorial. My goal is to show the organisation of the application structure and business logic of the code.

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How to become a programmer.

Kajetan Janowski on 7 November 2017 ■ No Comments

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Ever thought of joining the ranks of IT? Dreamt of developing kick-ass apps everyone talks about? Solving hundreds of problems in the colourful splash of well-earned satisfaction? Writing awesome articles while listening to Bach? Wait, what?

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