Universal App Platform - State of Progressive Web Apps in 2019
What started as best of both worlds, web and native, Progressive Web Apps can now also be installed and run on desktop, from Windows to Mac, from Linux to Chrome OS. You code once and it can run anywhere, ensuring PWAs as the Universal App Platform. In M...
Fetching files easily in Vapor when you are writing tests
Vapor has a nifty build-in feature to derive the working directory of a project. This makes it easy for you to fetch files from your project and serve their content; fx if you want to seed some data in your database, if you are building an initial mock ap...
Android navigation with MVVM and State made easy
Working on a large app with a large number of screens which we organized by feature (Messaging, Settings, Profile, etc.) made me test the single activity - multiple fragments approach by using the Navigation component. This technique has the advantage of ...
Deploying Node.js apps in Amazon Linux with pm2
Running a Node.js application can be as trivial as node index.js, but running it in production and keeping it running are completely different. Whenever the application crashes or the server reboots unexpectedly, we want the application to come back alive...
Join the dark side and implement Dark Mode in iOS
WWDC this year brought to light a lot of amazing features Apple has been working on lately. One of these features, and maybe one of the most expected, was Dark Mode support. As Apple mentioned in their keynote, Dark Mode is easy to implement and will brin...
Higher order functions in Swift
Higher order functions in Swift are extremely powerful tools to have in your developer toolkit, the only issue is that it might take some time to get comfortable with them. Before we get started, let’s have a look at some important terms to know in relati...
ARKit 3 brings more power to Apple's Augmented Reality
We can already see Apple having a big lead when it comes to augmented reality and the new version of ARKit will push them even further. There are amazing opportunities for AR as a mass market E-commerce solution and we can already see big companies taking...
Add a Swift Package to Your iOS Application
With the release of Swift 3.0, Apple introduced the Swift Package Manager, a tool for managing the distribution of Swift code. It is integrated with the Swift build system to automate the process of downloading, compiling, and linking dependencies. Though...
Create Your Own Swift Package
In Part 1, Add a Swift Package to Your iOS Application, of this Swift Package Manager series we saw how you can add an already existing package to your application. Now, you might be wondering, "How can I create my own package?" The answer is simpler than...