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We love engaging with the tech community, and we are big consumers of the awesome work that people share online. Here we are going give back a little and share our tech knowledge about all things we do at Monstarlab.

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August 6, 2018

Android WorkManager

WorkManager is a new API in Android Architecture Components introduced in the Google I/O 2018. It simplifies and makes it much easier to do work on background threads. The WorkManager schedules tasks as instances of the Worker class and can schedule these...

Muddi Walid

Muddi Walid

Android

July 23, 2018

Composition over Inheritance

You are tasked with building an application that deals with cars. You are off designing the classes for cars unaware of the looming dangers of inheritance. Every car has a drive functionality, the driver floors the accelerator and the car moves. So, you d...

Tanveer Hassan

Tanveer Hassan

Solution Architecture

July 16, 2018

Book a test drive with Siri Shortcuts (a Siri Shortcuts intro)

Earlier this summer at WWDC 2018, Apple announced Siri Shortcuts, a new Siri feature that will allow you to extend your app's capabilities by building custom voice actions. Siri Shortcuts will be available with the release of iOS 12 later this year. Let's...

Andrei Hogea

Andrei Hogea

iOS

May 9, 2018

Getting started with Vapor 3

Vapor has been our go-to framework when we develop backend solutions at Nodes since January 2017. A lot has happened during the past year, especially when we saw Vapor 2 got released back in May. Our overall opinion is that Vapor 2 has been a mature and a...

Steffen D. SommerSiemen Sikkema

Steffen D. Sommer, Siemen Sikkema

Vapor

March 20, 2018

Google Cast

Today, on the App Store, you are able to find a rapidly increasing number of apps that will allow their users to watch video content. There might come a time when you will have to develop such an app, and functionality like Google Cast and AirPlay is not ...

Andrei Hogea

Andrei Hogea

iOS

March 5, 2018

URLComponents

When writing mobile apps, more often than not we have to communicate with a backend to get some data to present to the user. The shared language between frontend and backend is usually URLs combined with either a POST body or maybe some URL query paramete...

Peter Bødskov

Peter Bødskov

iOS

January 5, 2018

Making a Presentation Application with Google Nearby Messages & Firebase

Here at Nodes, we regularly run events and give presentations. We wanted to use technology to make these more accessible and enhance these events for people who attend, and smooth out the event process entirely the only way we know how; making application...

Andrew Bailly Lloyd

Andrew Bailly Lloyd

iOS

January 4, 2018

App accelerators

The competition in the mobile app industry gets bigger and bigger so we have to deliver better and better apps to keep the users hooked. Extra niceness goes a long way in user retention and introducing app accelerators is a great example because it’s not ...

Roxana Jula

Roxana Jula

iOS

December 20, 2017

Custom Gesture Recognizers

If you want to implement a gesture that is not already provided by Apple you can customise your own. However, they recommend using the standard gestures because users are already familiar with them, so take some time to consider if a custom gesture is the...

Roxana Jula

Roxana Jula

iOS

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