Category Apps

How do you go about designing an app? Well, first things first: Since there are so many apps out there already, it would be good to know what the curret trends and future prospects of the mobile app market are, right? Also, the process behind building an app should not be underestimated — there are a lot of things to keep in mind. Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!

The Making Of "Melody Jams"

by Jamie Kosoy

22 min read
No meows just yet

May 24, 2016 — After months of hard work, I’ve finally gotten my side project, Melody Jams, into the App Store. It’s been quite the adventure, and I’m thrilled to see it in the store. Seeing it live makes me reflect ... Read More…

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Matteo Manferdini wrote

A Better iOS Architecture: A Deep Look At The Model-View-Controller Pattern

May 4, 2016 — If you’ve ever written an iOS app beyond a trivial “Hello world” app with just one screen and a few views, then you might have noticed that a lot of code seems to “naturally” go into view controllers. Because view controllers in iOS carry many … Read More…

Nash Vail wrote

The Beauty Of React Native: Building Your First iOS App With JavaScript (Part 2)

April 19, 2016 — In part 1 of this tutorial we started building our iOS app from scratch. We started out by setting up a blank React Native project. Then we pulled data from the Unsplash.it API. Because downloading data takes time, we built a loading screen. In the process we went over … Read More…

Nash Vail wrote

React Native Tutorial – Building Your First iOS App With JavaScript (Part 1)

April 12, 2016 — The idea of building mobile apps with JavaScript is not new. We’ve seen frameworks like Ionic and PhoneGap take on the challenge, and to some extent succeed in gaining a fair amount of developer and community support.

Why You Should Consider React Native For Your Mobile App

April 7, 2016 — Like many others, I was initially skeptical of Facebook and Instagram’s React. Initial demos of React’s JavaScript language extension, JSX, made many developers uneasy. For years we had worked to separate HTML and JavaScript, but React seemed to combine them. … Read More…

Ksenia Sternina wrote

How To Make A Physiology-Friendly Application For The iPad

March 30, 2016 — If you’ve ever had to move your iPad from one hand to the other just to tap a button you couldn’t reach, then you may have already guessed why we began this study in our UX lab. Our Mail.Ru Group’s UX lab team carries out many usability studies of our apps for smartphones … Read More…

Anya Pratskevich wrote

How To Improve Conversions By Localizing An App: A Case Study On “Paper”

March 7, 2016 — When your design looks beautiful and polished, how do you know if it performs well? While it is easy to predict the appeal of a clean and simple UI, design that converts is always a shot in the dark for marketers and designers. We worked with the team at FiftyThree to test … Read More…

Dmitry Nutels wrote

React Server Side Rendering With Node And Express

March 2, 2016 — Web applications are everywhere. There is no official definition, but we’ve made the distinction: web applications are highly interactive, dynamic and performant, while websites are informational and less transient. This very rough categorization provides us with a starting … Read More…

Martin Sikora wrote

Simple Augmented Reality With OpenCV, Three.js, And WebSockets

February 25, 2016 — In this tutorial, we’ll make use of OpenCV in Python to detect circle-shaped objects in a webcam stream and replace them with 3D Earth in Three.js in a browser window while using WebSockets to join this all together. Read More…

Shawn Jansepar wrote

Building A First-Class App That Leverages Your Website: A Case Study

February 10, 2016 — Mark Zuckerberg once said, “The biggest mistake that we made, as a company, is betting too much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just wasn’t there. And it’s not that HTML5 is bad. I’m actually, long term, really excited about it.” And who wouldn’t be excited by the … Read More…