Solution Design for Free Range Developers
At Monstarlab, the role of Solution Architect (SA) provides one career path for developers to progress towards, should they wish to pursue a less hands-on role over time. Many of the most common problems faced by a rookie SA are around the communication o...
Using Policy As Code to manage permissions in REST APIs
Authorization and Authentication (AuthZ and AuthN) are very critical parts of any system for identity and permissions validation and enforcement, AuthN is basically the process to verify who the user is, while AuthZ is the process of validating the user’s...
API First
We've been building APIs for a long time, enabling our mobile software solutions to communicate with each other across their respective platforms. For years these APIs have been built as part of a "mobile first"-approach, under the guiding light of an int...
Tagging feedback messages using Deep Learning
At Nodes we use Deep Learning to classify thousands of user-generated feedback messages across our digital solutions. We do this to create actionable insights for our clients, giving them a way to decipher large amounts of data that otherwise would be ver...
Building a COVID-19 Tracing app in a week
We wanted to create a prototype app to help people to find out if they contacted anybody infected by the COVID-19 disease. It will use wireless technologies searching near by and notify users. In this post we're going to talk about the thoughts behind thi...
Android Image Framework Comparison
As an Android developer you have a lot of options when it comes to adding images to your app. In this blog we will give you a quick comparison between Glide (https://github.com/bumptech/glide), Picasso(https://square.github.io/picasso/), Fresco (https://f...
Avoiding tampering on Android
It's important to keep user data safe. Like any software, Android can be target of attacks to access valuable data and even though no software is perfectly safe, as developers we should always follow the security best practices and do what is in our reach...
Android Dark Theme
With the arrival of Android 10, the latest trend in Android development is giving the users the choice to select a dark version of the app. Some say it can help save battery life and some just prefer it because it is easier on the eyes when the user opens...
An overview of watchOS complications
Complications are bits of watchOS application that can be put on the user's watch face and offer quick information, simply by looking at his/her Apple Watch, without opening the accompanying watchOS/iOS app. The Apple Watch ships with some default complic...
Nordic.js 2019
The 9th version of the Nordic.js conference took place at Magasin 9 near the harbor of Stockholm. The whole frontend team was invited, and three of us were able to attend (Rasmus, Themi and Jonas). It was our first trip to a conference as a team, and it w...
European Women In Technology 2019
European Women In Technology 2019 European Women in Technology is the largest conference by women for women in the industry in Europe. It was two days in Amsterdam filled with talks, workshops, mentoring opportunities and networking. With 7 tracks and 6 w...
NSSpain 2019
NSSpain 2019 NSSpain is one of the most well-known iOS conferences held in Europe. This year was its seventh year, and with over three hundred participants, the tickets got sold out even before a single speaker was announced. Taking place in Logroňo, a be...
Sharing code between iOS and Vapor
Code reusability has always been one of the ultimate goals for us developers. Building your backend with Vapor not only gives you highly scalable apps with shallow memory footprint, but also the potential to share some of your backend code with your iOS a...
Google Docs viewer with Flutter
Flutter is a powerful framework when it comes to rendering complex nested widgets with countless styles and customizations. This small project will explain the basics of using Google APIs and Services, in particular Google Drive, Google Docs and rendering...
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 ...
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...
