Tag: App development
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Seven tips on Firebase security rules and the Admin SDK
Posted on March 14, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
Posted by Hiranya Jayathilaka and Rachel Myers this article focuses on Firebase offers security rules -- a powerful mechanism that helps enforce the security and logical correctness of your apps. The backend services use security rules to authorize and validate the requests made by client apps, and make sure they adhere to the policies that app developers have put in place.
Tags nosql infosec cloud app-development
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React Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Posted on January 5, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
John Tucker wrote this little guide in which he explores React BDD using Gherkin syntax with Jest Cucumber.
Tags programming tdd javascript nodejs frontend app-development
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Apple CoreML: Introduction to machine learning in mobile app development
Posted on November 5, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Post by JetRuby Agency about enhancing your mobile app with machine learning. You will find out what machine learning is and understand the way it changed our life. CoreML is a framework that was presented by Apple in 2017.
Tags ios machine-learning app-development
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Launching my first Flutter app
Posted on October 16, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags app-development android
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Learn how to create a Python GUI with PyQt5
Posted on September 25, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Tutorial by Michael Herrmann explains how you can use PyQt5 to build a desktop app with Python. It covers everything from the best way to set up PyQt in 2018, to compiling your app and distributing it to other people's computers.
Tags python miscellaneous programming open-source app-development
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Six layout myths busted
Posted on September 20, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An older article encapsulating thoughts by Jen Simmons on topic of six layout myth. Every website reaches for an identical 12-column symmetrical grid. Every site uses the same shapes and patterns over and over. And we are totally bored.
Tags ux browsers app-development web-development frameworks
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Beginner's guide to designing smart chatbots
Posted on September 15, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Vaibhav Verma, an User Experience Designer at Haptik, about his experience with designing the smart chatbots over 4 years period. He has designed more than 50 chatbots across various domains and use cases.
Tags bots nodejs miscellaneous robotics app-development ux
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Compiler hinting with Kotlin contracts
Posted on September 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length short
Jarno Walgemoed short introduction on some new interesting features in Kotlin 1.3. Kotlin's built-in null-safety makes it easy for us to write code that's less error-prone and less susceptible to the unwanted and unexpected NullpointerException at runtime. Kotlin is introducing Contracts in the upcoming 1.3 release in which we can use contracts to tell the compiler how a function behaves and what results are implied, so we can benefit from improved smart-casts.
Tags java android app-development kotlin
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Understanding Android Gradle build
Posted on August 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Łukasz Wasylkowski article about Android Gradle builds. In his post he'll write, step by step, Gradle configuration files for a single Android project in order to take some of the magic away.
Tags android java app-development cicd
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React Native -- how to setup your first app
Posted on July 22, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length short
Aman Mittal's article about first steps with React Native. React Native is a framework for building mobile applications with JavaScript and leveraging Reactjs. It uses native UI components. In React Native, there is no DOM rather than Native Components which are provided by platforms such iOS and Android.
Tags web-development app-development react
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Best practices for unit testing in Kotlin
Posted on June 9, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Philipp Hauer post about how unit testing in Kotlin is fun and tricky at the same time. We can benefit a lot from Kotlin's powerful language features to write readable and concise unit tests.
Tags programming app-development android
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The character of Kotlin
Posted on June 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Marcin Moskala interesting blog post inspired by Seven Languages in Seven Week book in which he presents characteristics of Kotlin language. And one very typical Kotlin trait is that it isn't really introducing anything new into programming languages family.
Tags programming app-development kotlin