Ever since its inception in the 1980s, the practice of dogfooding has been steadily gaining in popularity. Today, it is no longer an obscure strategy used only by the most progressive companies and we can find many examples of dogfooding across industries. Dogfooding is not a silver bullet and is certainly not a replacement for…
By Blake Sirach For many companies, software releases are stressful, nail-biting, teeth-gritting stretches of time when the whole enterprise is looking at your team and just waiting for something to go sideways: a major bug on an untested Android device, poor customer response, or unmet stakeholder expectations. But they don’t have to be that way!…
In today’s digital world, there are countless devices running numerous operating systems all around the world. To reach a larger audience, you would have to publish your mobile app on each of these different platforms. However, creating a mobile app for different operating systems isn’t an easy task, to say the least. You would basically create…
Keeping up with the world of Cordova can be a tough job. You need to have a reliable set of Cordova blogs or content sources to stay up-to-date with all of the news, updates, and announcements in Cordova. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the top Cordova online communities including Cordova, Ionic, and PhoneGap…
iOS 12 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2018, and with it came a lot of changes, leaving developers everywhere wondering about how the new changes with the iOS 12 App Store would affect their apps. Apple’s App Store was launched ten years ago and currently has over two million…
Mobile app internationalization (I18n) is the process of customizing your code so that it’s ready for localization and able to be modified and released in multiple languages. Mobile app internationalization needs to come one step ahead of the mobile app localization process as your code needs to be ready to handle the localized content when…
Deciding on a bug tracking tool to use for the development of your app can be confusing. The sheer amount of tools that have surfaced in the recent years and the similar functionalities they offer can make it difficult to determine which one will be best for you and your team. Bug trackers are essentially…
So you’ve received your app’s first bug report, congratulations! Now what? You have to find the best way to handle your bug reports to make sure all the effort you and your testers have made pays off. Let’s take a look at an app bug’s life cycle from the moment it is reported until it is…
What is the difference between alpha vs beta apps, and nightly vs production builds? With so many names and varying definitions across industries, identifying the purpose and process of mobile app builds can get confusing. Here, we will discuss what a build is and examine alpha, beta, nightly, and production builds: their position in the…
iOS 11 was announced in early June at the Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2017, and with it came a lot of changes. There were design changes, app updates, new features introduced and more, but what’s more important for the developers to know are the new iOS 11 developers features. iOS 11 is arguably one of…
Game graphics can make or break the game. The visual aspect of the game is usually the first thing a user will notice and if it doesn’t appeal to them, then the game is doomed to failure. From creating the characters, the objects, and the environment, whether in 2D or 3D, to creating the skeletons,…
Kotlin, Google’s new programming language, comes with a range of functionality. This post looks at the Kotlin features that help make developers’ lives easier. Not only does Kotlin solve real-world problems developers face, it also ensures interoperability with Java. The versatility of Kotlin cannot be ignored, which is reason enough to make it the developer’s choice of…