Carrying around cash has become less and less popular these days. After all, why you should worry about losing those precious banknotes from your wallet when you can have all your money safe & sound on your credit card or - on your phone.
21st
January
2019
mobile-development
Flutter - a modern open source SDK solution from Google
On the December 4th 2018 Google has presented us their new open source SDK called Flutter. The SDK was made in purpose to help create native mobile apps for both iOS and Android. Flutter Live was a live event celebrating the first stable release (1.0). The event was held in Science Museum in London and streamed online around the globe.
16th
November
2018
mobile-development
The Navigation Architecture Component. Android answer to iOS Storyboards?
Android Jetpack
Android Jetpack is the newly created set of libraries and tools that were presented on the latest Google I/O event in 2018. With the vast increase of libraries released, Google recently came up with the idea to combine the old and new ones and organize those into 4 categories: Foundation, Architecture, Behaviour and UI. The aim of the Android Jetpack is to standardize and simplify the code without losing backward compatibility.
8th
January
2018
mobile-development
Build your light module with ESP8266 WiFi module
Creating mobile apps that communicate with the Internet does not seem to be a great challenge any more. However, apart from pushing and pulling data from web and displaying it to the user, our apps can do much more!
13th
December
2017
mobile-development
Droidcon Kraków 2017 - Android user conference
At the beginning of December I had an opportunity to attend Droidcon Kraków 2017 – the annual conference focusing on Android development. Two days of lectures divided into three paths gave me a chance to hear about some really interesting topics. If I wanted to cover all the lectures I attended, this article would be really long, so I will focus on the topics that interested me the most.
17th
October
2017
mobile-development
Storing structs in a persistence storage Protocol-oriented programming to the rescue
Problem description/Abstract
Most of the iOS applications are often a thin client that provides end-user frontend of your business logic implemented on a centralized, remote server. Thus, prior to implementing core features of your iOS app, iOS developer have to (1) setup communication with a backend server (often as REST requests), and (2) implement persistent storage to keep received data locally.
11th
September
2017
mobile-development
Google Developer Days Europe 2017 - an event for Google enthusiasts
Last week in Krakow, Poland, one of the greatest events gathering Google technologies enthusiasts took place. The event in question is, of course, Google Developer Days Europe - a conference organized to showcase the hottest topics now in Google. Attendants could hear about the latest mobile, web, and Cloud features during 33 sessions, take part in 16 hands-on workshops, talk to Google Experts, and of course meet a lot of like-minded people.
13th
July
2017
mobile-development
Have no fear, Kotlin is here - a few notes on Kotlin programming language
"Life is great and everything will be ok, Kotlin is here”- claimed Christina Lee and Jake Wharton during their talk on Google I/O 2017 conference. Kotlin programming language seemed to be one of the widest discussed topics during and after the conference. Mobile technologies market is very dynamic, and it seems that introduction of the new officially supported by Google language will change a lot the way we develop Android apps in next years.
15th
March
2017
mobile-development
Railwaymen is an Emerging Polish Web and Software Developer by Clutch
Poland has remained a rapidly growing tech hub, catering to high-profile, international clients to fill the seemingly unending demand for highly skilled web and software developers. We felt honored to be included in new research released by Clutch, a Washington, D.C. based B2B ratings and review firm. Clutch analysts evaluated Railwaymen across a number of qualitative and quantitative factors, including client satisfaction and proven ability to deliver.
15th
December
2016
mobile-development
USB OTG - unknown strength of mobile devices
We all know that nowadays smartphones are more powerful than most of the computers 20 years ago. They became immanent part of our lives. Some of us use them way more often that regular PCs or laptops. However, there are some functionalities that distinguish smartphones from computers. One of them is the ability to connect peripherals like pendrives, mice, keyboards or monitors. Is it really a functionality that is out of reach for smartphones users?
