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Developing web or mobile apps today often uses dependencies to make a developer’s life easy. However, using that many dependencies in a project can lead to a version mismatch error. In this post, you’ll learn what version...

Introduction Colors serve an important function in life. We use colors to signal important information, like with traffic lights, for example. A red light means stop and a green light means go. In addition to signaling important...

Mobile apps have exploded in popularity over recent years. The introduction of the iPhone 3G in 2008 spawned a new industry overnight. App development is now an industry that generates more than $34 billion in revenue. To reach all...

Be it an e-commerce app, a cryptocurrency trading app, or a social media app, all modern apps use side menus to offer a seamless navigation experience to their users. Side menus are intuitive to use and barely take up any visible space on...

With the introduction of SwiftUI in 2019, Apple made clear what direction it wanted developers to take on the framework. Many saw it as a move needed to bring the Apple ecosystem to new heights—especially in terms of innovation and...

In 2019, Apple introduced a change to the way developers could design apps for the Apple ecosystem. The launch of SwiftUI began a long process of change that arguably was well overdue. It has dramatically benefited developers’...

Firebase is a serverless or backend as a service (BaaS) solution from Google. What that means is, with firebase, you worry less about building a backend and focus more on building your mobile app. To further explain what Firebase is,...

Introduction Checkboxes are one of the most widely used UI components on mobile, desktop, and the web. Checkboxes are classic elements that originated on paper forms and have carried over into digital form. They are a very effective way to...

Almost every social networking app allows its users to upload and post an image. Most apps even let you set a profile picture for your account. All these apps access your device’s camera and gallery through an image picker. In this...

UI alerts are one of the most common views that developers use to get a specific interaction from the user. From confirmations to input, alerts enable the developer a lot of control to ensure that the user flow goes in a particular way....

With the introduction of SwiftUI drag-and-drop functionalities to iOS 13.4 last year, the engineers at Cupertino made a bold statement to all developers: Bring modern and intuitive UI features to iPhones and iPads. For us developers,...

This article intends to introduce you to SwiftUI Bindings and the different aspects of SwiftUI View workflows using them. Then, we’ll work on creating a View implementing simple bindings and add some testing...

React Native is a mobile development framework for building cross-platform apps that run and feel truly native on both iOS and Android. With React Native, you can choose to test run your app either on an emulator or on a physical device....

The purpose of this article is to get you acquainted with SwiftUI Picker. In the process, we’ll be creating a sample code, customizing the appearance of our Picker, and implementing some functionality with them. Once you have...

When mobile apps abruptly clip off content from the screen, it’s a sign of bad UX for developers. Moreover, not being able to scroll through your app’s screen could be confusing for your users. Luckily, scrolling containers...

Are you looking for a way to include an alert in your React Native app? If yes, read on to learn how. Alerts are very common components in mobile apps. For example, a good application will show a confirmation message before performing a...

Carousels are one of the most popular ways to view a bunch of related images on mobile. At the time of this writing, they’re even more famous because Instagram carousels are quite popular. Since we consume most content on mobile in...

Working with DatePickers in Swift has always been simple and straightforward. Despite the complexity that these elements contain behind the curtain, implementing the different representations of a DatePicker has always been...

With the introduction of the Dark Mode feature in macOS Mojave in September 2018, and later in iOS and all other platforms, Apple started opening the doors to developers to allow users to have a certain degree of control over the...

ListViews are a great way to present collections of information in an app. Flutter is an app development framework which is very easy to get started with. It provides ready to use components to get you going, including those that...

With the introduction of SwiftUI in September 2019, Apple once again pushed the envelope forward into the future of development workflows. By creating a more intuitive and interactive way to create and compose their views, the team at...

In this article, you’ll learn… what GraphQL is how it affects API what queries are how to use GraphQL Together, we’ll build an app as a demonstration using a public GraphQL API. You’ll also learn what mutations are...

As iOS developers (and, more recently, Apple Platform developers, given the flexibility available to us now to create device-agnostic apps), we’re no strangers to the essential elements that the vast majority of applications...

Flutter is Google’s user interface (UI) tooling kit for making iOS and Android applications from a single codebase. Kotlin, on the other hand, is the official programming language for Android development. Both Kotlin and Flutter have...

Introduction React Native is the top framework to do cross-platform mobile development. By cross-platform, I mean that the code runs on both iOS and Android. A developer needs to code in Objective-C/Swift to develop an iOS app and...

Originally posted here on January 27th, 2021 by Pierre-Yves Ricau , Android tech lead at Square. Pierre-Yves, had his doubts on “no-code” testing platforms. After speaking with our CEO, Amine, he decided to take Waldo for a...

Mobile test automation that works! Since our launch for iOS in July of last year, we’ve worked tirelessly to provide an amazing product experience for mobile teams. We’ve developed essential “quality of life”...

Inspiration drives the best products out there As a product manager/designer, one of the most common issues we encounter when we are tasked to design a new flow is looking for inspiration. So back in the days, I would download cool apps on...

Mobile testing is hard Mobile app teams create amazing mobile experiences that influence our daily lives. But the way we test the quality of these apps is nowhere near the standards we set for ourselves or that our users have come to...

​​The concept of accessibility stems from the universal need to design and develop software, tools and technologies to accommodate every category of users.  ​​There’s a popular misconception that accessibility benefits only people with...

Last week we looked into the pros and cons of four popular crash reporting tools. This time, we’re gonna dive into the integration part. Now, the details of integration are going to vary per combination of package and platform, and...

One of the most challenging tasks in mobile app development is reproducing issues users are hitting in production. Several factors come together to frustrate your investigation: users might only hit bugs on uncommon devices, or only when...