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Did you worry you spent too much time on your phone these past months? Maybe even for the last year? Statistics say we spent 1.6 trillion hours on a mobile device in 2020. But don’t blame yourself too much, it’s not you, it’s Corona, or at...

A new platform comes every decade, the smartphone simple client golden era has passed and now makes way for other mediums where the user can be more engaged and the experiences more immersive. I’m talking of Augmented and Virtual Reality...

You’re probably thinking of building an app that has an AI/ML component, or you might want to add an intelligent component in your already existing one, but what exactly is possible and how can you do it?IntroductionArtificial Intelligence...

Today we are starting a new series at appssemble where we are going to talk about various types of applications, how do their business work, who are their target customers, and last but not least, what does it take to build a great app.The...

My name is Dragos Dobrean and I’m the co-founder of appssemble — a mobile development studio, besides that, I’m also doing my PhD on Mobile Applications Software Architectures, you could say that I live and breath mobile. I built an app...

Technology is taking over the world. Taking a quick look around us, we see digitalisation gaining more and more traction.Even more today, in the light of the pandemic we’re experiencing, global businesses are looking to automatise their...

deliverer — Live AI enhanced video and screencast streaming.In the previous article we went through the features of deliverer. We’ve seen what it can do and how, but there was still something missing from it. The augmented reality module,...

A series on how going MVP-first can save your startup a lot of money. Market validation for startupsIn our work of building digital products for startups around the world, we get to see how a lot of them thrive, while others fail. But what...

deliverer — Live video and screencast streams to all content platforms simultaneously.deliverer is the one app you need if you want to stream to one or more platforms at the same time. If you are someone somewhat big in the social media...

This article was written in collaboration with Professor Laura Diosan from Babes Bolyai University, Cluj NapocaAbstractDue to the increased number of mobile applications and their popularity, many software developers have begun to focus on...

Building an Apple Watch independent app on watchOS 6.0One of the new shiny features of the new iOS 13 and watchOS 6 is the ability to create apple watch apps without having an iphone companion app. The process is not as straight forward as...

If you don’t have time for this jump to the code.We needed an AppStore like card animation for one of our apps. While there are a few examples available on the internet that shows you how to do it, they do not look production ready, nor...

If you are working on a relatively big mobile project, most definitely you are going to need a CI/CD pipeline for building your application and distributing it to your testers. There are many tools which can be easily used for setting up...

Hello 👋Today I am going to talk about UIWindow, rootViewController and some of its quirks, namely how you can create leaks in your app by incorrectly using them.My relationship with UIWindow is not that serious as the one with the...

Today I am going to talk about the new WebkitView in iOS 11 and about our love/hate relationship.The project I worked on was a simple iOS application which should provide a native component for login/signup, navigation, and use a web view...