Serverless Server-side Swift using Google Cloud Run
Learn about Google's new service launched recently – Google Cloud Run – and how it allows you to run server-side swift server-less 😱. In part 1 we will cover the basics and deploy a Vapor application in less than 10 minutes. Part 1: Deploying a Server-si...
Automate Debugging and Testing Workflows using ADB
While developing and testing we usually come across repetitive tasks involving manual efforts. Navigating to a certain part of the app, filling out sign up forms or simply taking screenshots are all time-consuming tasks. In this blog post we look at how w...
Is Flutter ready for production?
After hearing about Flutter from different sources and developers with all kinds of background we decided to try to rebuild an existing Android app in Flutter and see the the state of the Mobile framework. We tried to reproduce as many features as possibl...
Does your application waste memory?
Have you ever thought about what is inside your application causing high RAM usage in Task Manager? Take a moment and check out your program memory usage right now. Does it look good/healthy/fit/expected/normal? Do you have an idea about what the top thre...
A dive into the Observer Pattern in iOS applications
Often when developing iOS applications with more complex requirements we may encounter the need to react to, and perform UI updates on, not so easily accessible UI components. Another example could be that we must update an object outside our currently fo...
Bugsnag for Vapor 3
At Nodes we have been working hard on a Vapor 3 provider for Bugsnag. Bugsnag is a reporting tool that we use extensively to help catch and fix bugs. In the new version of the library, we've been able to remove a lot of dead code, simplify the API and add...
A Guide to Google Home Integrations
Within the trend of IoT, Google Home is amongst the most popular. Thankfully, Google has made the development of actions quite approachable. To get an overview of the process, let's create a weather integration together. Actions on Google Creating your Go...
Swift Alps
Swift Alps - as the name might imply - is a conference revolving around anything Swift related. As the name might also imply, the conference takes place in the Swiss Alps, in Crans-Montana more specifically. What sets this conference apart from many of th...
Augmented reality is here to disrupt the industry - Insights from Web Summit 2018
It has been two weeks since Web Summit took place in Lisbon, Portugal and we can still feel the energetic vibes. 3 days full of inspirational speakers, current tech trends, coffee astronauts, robots (have you seen the new social robot Furhat revealed at t...
