What this WWDC means for us
WWDC 2017 happened at the beginning of June in San Jose, California, and Apple presented lots of exciting changes. We already covered in this article the most important iOS additions from a user's perspective, but what exactly did WWDC 2017 bring for an i...
Nodes Wars - My experience as a Vapor intern at Nodes in Copenhagen
Hello! My name is Valen, I am studying in Spain and the last subject of my training consist in an internship in a company. They gave me the chance to do this abroad and it seemed like a good opportunity. So, here I am, in Nodes, a digital agency in Copenh...
Our experience at iOSCon 2017
iOSCon is an annual conference in London, focusing mainly on Swift development for iOS, but with talks also spreading this year to as diverse subjects as Accessibility and making the most of the time you have with no regrets. The conference was hosted at ...
Haptic Feedback makes you vibrate!
The iPhone could vibrate ever since it was launched. And so did almost all the other phones, even from before smartphones were a thing. But Apple took this function further than anyone else, by introducing the Taptic Engine in the Apple Watch, and afterwa...
Serpent - more than just another JSON mapping framework
At Nodes, we develop apps that rely a lot on complex REST APIs. The iOS team needed a fast and fully featured JSON mapping framework. We had been using our own internal parsing framework for Objective-C for a long time, but when Swift came out we decided...
Android Bottom Navigation
This blog post will give a quick introduction on the new Android Bottom Navigation component, how to setup your project to use it and a few tips on how to utilise it to get the best results. Despite being part of the Material Design recommendations for a ...
Droidcon London 2016
Last year we attended DroidCon London and it was my first Android conference ever. Before that I attended CocoaConf in Las Vegas, as I mostly did iOS back then. DroidCon London 2015 was exciting because at that point I had been doing Android exclusively f...
6 simple steps to get your first Vapor JSON response
We will cover the initial setup and how to make both POST and GET with controllers and models. This tutorial will assume that you already have installed Vapor and Xcode 8 and are familiar with Swift 3. ### 1. Creating your project Now open your terminal a...
Adding MySQL to your Vapor project
In this tutorial we will walk through how to add a database layer to a Vapor project. We will be using MySQL and will assume that you have set it up on your local machine. Follow these 3 steps if you don't already have MySQL on your machine. Install Hom...