Mobile development
Mobile app development refers to creating applications and other software specific to mobile devices, like smartphones, smart TVs and smart watches. Netguru builds mobile applications on all major platforms, including iOS and Android. Mobile development seeks to optimize functionality and user experience on mobile devices. On Netguru blog we cover mobile development topics, including Native Apps, Swift, Kotlin, React Native and Flutter.
Nowadays, almost everyone uses WiFi at home, workplace, or even when commuting. When there is no wireless network available, we connect to the mobile network. Does it mean that we shouldn't be concerned with the availability of network when making custom mobile apps? Not really. There are many scenarios where a short period of no connectivity can ruin your app’s "smoothness".
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After all the scandal caused by Cambridge Analytica and considering the role Facebook had in it, people went crazy about the personal information companies are collecting about them. Many users revoked permissions from applications or removed applications that they’re not using.
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How to Improve Mobile App Security? Get Your App Tested with a Mobile Security Review
Maciej Markiewicz
Mobile app security issue Nowadays, with the growing popularity of smartphones, almost everybody uses mobile applications, but hardly anyone thinks of their security while using them. At the same time, when developing a system everyone's focusing on the back-end security, but rarely on securing mobile apps. We just take security for granted, relying on the back-end, where there may be vulnerabilities as well.
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A huge amount of a developer’s daily work is debugging. It’s the thing that makes this job really annoying, however on the other hand, resolving an issue and making something work is such an amazing feeling that being a developer is still worth it.
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There are various types of testing and many quality assurance techniques. You can choose from methods ranging from manual testing, through unit tests, functional test, to end-to-end tests. Each testing technique brings additional value to the project and improves its quality. Some of those techniques are also confused or misused.
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Google began sending emails notifying about the coming changes in the Google Play Store policy. Starting from November 1, 2018, every app uploaded as a new application or an update of a previously launched app has to target Android Oreo (API level 26) or higher.
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Android has a whopping 85.9-percent share in the mobile OS market. Even if you’re an iPhone enthusiast yourself, these numbers can’t be argued with – Google’s operating system is an extremely important part of the modern technology landscape.
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React Native lets you build native mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich enterprise mobile app UI from declarative components. It basically allows you to reuse your code for writing apps for Android and iOS. “Write once, use everywhere” was one of the most popular slogans for this technology when it came out.
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Skills and Qualities of Mobile Developers – What You Should Pay Attention to When Hiring a Team
Radosław Szeja
To say that mobile development is the future would be an understatement – it also dominates the present. Mobile devices (think smartphones) have overtaken desktop machines (such as laptops and old-school workstations) in Internet use back in 2016, and the trend has only progressed since then. Plainly speaking, if your website or product is not usable on mobile devices, you are set to lose over 50% of your potential customers right off the bat.
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18 Months of Experience with React Native at Netguru: Lessons Learned, Mistakes Made and a Look into the Future
Radek Zaleski
In 2016, React Native was one of the rising technologies giving a great promise to save on development time but also carrying some risks. No one really knew in which direction it would go, whether it would last or become forgotten. We decided to take a bet and invest in the research on React Native. Today, we know it paid off, and React Native is here to stay. Facebook’s framework has been leveraged by big players such as Tesla, Instagram, and Airbnb. Airbnb has recently shared their experience with RN on their blog. After having delivered 20 projects and with 15 RN developers on board, we want to share what happened over the past 18 months of our journey with this technology.
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