Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with Xamarin
From App Builders CH, Hajan Selmani brings his extensive experience as a Microsoft MVP to show the benefits of writing cross-platform apps…
on Jul 5 2016
Faceoff: Android vs. iOS
Sebastian Vieira and Vikram Kriplaney examine the state of Android and iOS in 2016 from App Builders CH. Join them as they talk iOS for An…
on Jun 27 2016
Testing With Kotlin #1
In part 1 of this two-part testing series from Kotlin Night SF, Spek framework contributor Laura Kogler demonstrates the current state of …
on Jun 20 2016
Testing With Kotlin #2
In part 2 of this two-part testing series from Kotlin Night SF, Spock maintainer Rob Fletcher demonstrates the current state of Kotlin tes…
on Jun 20 2016
Gotta Persist 'Em All: Realm as Replacement for SQLite
Realm is a new player on mobile database scene, and acts as a replacement for SQLite on Android and Core Data on iOS by providing a databa…
on Jun 14 2016
Instrumentation Testing Robots
Libraries like Espresso allow UI tests to have stable interactions with your app, but without discipline these tests can become hard to ma…
on Jun 7 2016
Where We Stand & What's Next for Kotlin
Andrey Breslav, the Kotlin project lead, gives an overview of what Kotlin is today, as a tool for developers and as an ecosystem. He then …
on Jun 1 2016
Redux-ing UI bugs: Borrowing the Best of the Web to Make Native Better
Between React, Cycle.js, Flux, and Redux, many interesting UI related architectures, frameworks, and libraries are gaining traction on the…
on May 23 2016
Material Design Everywhere, Using the Android Support Libraries
The introduction of Material Design was one of the more exciting things to happen to Android in recent years. The specifications describe …
on May 17 2016
Gradle Adopts Kotlin
Starting with Gradle 3.0, you can specify your build scripts in Kotlin, the new statically-typed language from JetBrains. Finally, your ID…
on May 16 2016
D is for the Dependency Inversion Principle
SOLID Principles for Android #5: the Dependency Inversion Principle, by Donn Felker
on May 5 2016
Relaunching TaskRabbit's Tasker App on React Native
React Native is a new way to build mobile applications where most of the code is written in Javascript, but with a native experience as th…
on May 4 2016
I is for the Interface Segregation Principle
SOLID Principles for Android #4: Interface Segregation Principle, by Donn Felker
on Apr 28 2016
Building Realm Add-ons for Android
Realm is great, but your app has to be a lot more than just a database. You need a UI! Thorben explains how he built Realm add-ons for And…
on Apr 22 2016
L is for the Liskov Substitution Principle
SOLID Principles for Android #3: Liskov Substitution Principle, by Donn Felker
on Apr 20 2016
O is for Open/Closed Principle
SOLID Principles for Android #2: Open/Closed Principle, by Donn Felker
on Apr 13 2016
DIY: Build Your Own Dependency Injection Library
We've heard a thousand times why Dependency Injection is good. We know how to use it: put an @Inject here, an @Singleton there, and now we…
on Apr 12 2016
