Piotr Mionskowski
July 20, 2015
android
Android application code often suffers from being more verbose than it could be. As libraries such as Android Annotations and ButterKnife have shown that’s only partially due to tediousness of Java. The recently announced Android Data Binding library can remove at least part of the boilerplate code we need to write. Since I’ve always liked Presentation Model pattern (MVVM) this is very dear to my heart. However just getting rid of a tedious code is not the main reason I’m so happy to see the new API. Let’s recap on common issues developer faces on Android and then I’ll show how using mentioned patterns with new offering from Google can mitigate them.
Piotr Mionskowski
July 12, 2015
android
In the previous post you can read how to use Session object to maintain current user information through the application lifecycle. Now we’ll explore different options of implementing varying behavior depending on user type.
Piotr Mionskowski
June 30, 2015
android
Every but trivial android application needs to maintain information about current user - regardless if he has authenticated or not. While this may sound easy there are still at least handful of ways one can do it - in this article I’m going to explore couple of them.
Michał Łukasiewicz
June 1, 2015
iOS, CocoaHeads, GYP, generate-ios, automation, TeamCity
Here come the slides from a talk I gave at the last Cocoaheads Tricity meeting. It’s titled “Automate your iOS deployment a bit”
and shows how we approach build and deployment automation at Bright Inventions. In just a few days we’re going to publish our “generate-ios” Yeoman generator on Github.
Adam Bar
May 27, 2015
iOS
Recently I had an opportunity to dive into an iOS development and while I enjoy it, I miss a lot of things from the web development world. I was looking for an iOS begginer guide targeted specifically to the web developers like me, but I haven't found any. This is how the idea for this series of blog posts was born.
Adam Bar
May 21, 2015
iOS
Time to finish the iOS layouts for web developers series with the post about events. Both the web and iOS employ similar ideas, but the set of events is distinct and we need to be aware there are different ways to interact with the classical web than with the mobile device.
Mateusz Klimek
April 13, 2015
android, unit-testing
Since version 1.1 of Android Gradle Plugin we can run unit test on a local JVM on our development machine. In this article I'll demonstrate how to make local resources available in unit test case.
Adam Bar
April 10, 2015
iOS
In the fourth post in the iOS layouts for web developers series it's time for something more lightweight. We’ll go through various visual aspects of the controls and see how we can set it up, compared to CSS.
Adam Bar
April 3, 2015
iOS
In the web, we've left behind the times when the view specific definitions like fonts or colors were scattered all over through the HTML structure. Now we’re looking at the iOS layouts. How do we maintain the content vs. presentation separation in iOS?
Mateusz Klimczak
April 1, 2015
iOS, CocoaHeads, CocoaPods
On Tuesday 31th March 2015 I gave a presentation about most popular Cocoa libraries and [CocoaPods] (http://cocoapods.org) at the local Cocoaheads Tricity group meeting, which we are now co-organizing.