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...
Understanding code signing for iOS apps
If you're an iOS developer, most likely you've had to deal with code signing. And if you're a junior iOS developer, you might've felt a bit overwhelmed by everything going on in the "Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles" section of the developer port...
Insights from NSSpain
We've recently attended NSSpain, a developer conference focusing mostly on iOS. This was our experience, in three different perspectives. Jakob Mygind The main points that stuck out for me during the NSSpain conference were the increased focus on and need...
Continuous Integration With Deployment to TestFlight and HockeyApp
We've recently revised our development process on the iOS team and set up a continuous integration server to make and deploy our builds faster, easier and more consistently. This post should shed some light on what we chose and how we set it up. The Requi...