Building a Location-based App with React Native

What good can happen when we tap Allow on the pop-up that asks to access our location? Some apps provide better experience, like Facebook suggesting events nearby. Others — can’t work properly without knowing device location, like Uber or Google Maps.

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Google Flutter From Scratch: Building Apps With Widgets

Flutter is fast becoming one of the most popular frameworks for developing cross-platform mobile apps. Most Android and iOS developers today are starting to agree that it is a faster and more future-proof alternative to other cross-platform frameworks such as React Native and NativeScript.

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Code a Real-Time NativeScript App: Social Login and Firebase

NativeScript is a framework for building cross-platform native mobile apps using XML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this series, we're trying out some of the cool things you can do with a NativeScript app: geolocation and Google Maps integration, SQLite database, Firebase integration, and push notifications.

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How to Add Multiple Instant App Features to Your App

In this three-part series we’ve been exploring Android instant apps, a new feature that provides an entirely new way of reaching users who don’t currently have your app installed on their device.

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Code a Real-Time NativeScript App: Geolocation and Google Maps

NativeScript is a framework for building cross-platform native mobile apps using XML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this series, we'll try out some of the cool things you can do with a NativeScript app: geolocation and Google Maps integration, SQLite database, Firebase integration, and push notifications.

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Build an Ionic App with User Authentication

With Okta and OpenID Connect (OIDC) you can easily integrate authentication into an Ionic application, and never have to build it yourself again. OIDC allows you to authenticate directly against the Okta Platform API, and this article shows you how to do just that in an Ionic application.

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Realm Mobile Database for iOS

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use a powerful yet elegant on-device database solution for your iOS apps: Realm Mobile Database.

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RxJava 2 for Android Apps: RxBinding and RxLifecycle

RxJava is one of the most popular libraries for bringing reactive programming to the Android platform, and in this three-part series I’ve been showing you how to start using this library in your own Android projects.

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Code Your First Ionic 2 App: A Photo Sharing App

In this two-part tutorial series, you're learning how to create your very first Ionic 2 app. Now that you've set up your development environment and learned about the development workflow in Ionic 2, it's time to get your hands dirty by coding the app. 

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Code Your First Ionic 2 App: Getting Set Up

With the recent release of Ionic 2, you might be one of those hybrid app developers who wants to try it out. But maybe you're overwhelmed by the amount of learning needed to get started. That's why I want to give you a good start by walking you step by step through the creation of your first Ionic 2 app. If you're already familiar with Ionic then the concepts might easily "click" with you. But if you're a complete beginner, not to worry—I'll won't assume any prior knowledge of the framework.

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Prototype And Code: Creating A Custom Pull-To-Refresh Gesture Animation

Pull-to-refresh is one of the most popular gestures in mobile applications right now. It’s easy to use, natural and so intuitive that it is hard to imagine refreshing a page without it. In 2010, Loren Brichter created Tweetie, one of numerous Twitter applications.

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Reactive Programming Operators in RxJava 2

If your Android app is going to rack up those five-star reviews on Google Play, then it needs to be able to multi-task. As a bare minimum, today’s mobile users expect to still be able to interact with your app while it's doing work in the background.

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Get Started With RxJava 2 for Android

If you’re an Android developer, then you may have heard good things about RxJava, a popular open-source implementation of the ReactiveX library that brings reactive programming to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

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Appium-Mobile App Automation (Configuration and Installation), Part 1

Appium is an open source test automation framework which is used for testing hybrid apps, native apps, and mobile web apps for Android and iOS using webdriver. Appium works on a distributed open source mobile UI testing framework.

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Code an Image Gallery Android App with Glide

Glide is a popular open-source Android library for loading images, videos and animated GIFs. With Glide you can load and display media from many different sources, such as remote servers or the local file system.  

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Getting Started With a React Native App Template

Designing a React Native app from scratch is often a cumbersome process—especially the design part, because you have to plan for both Android and iOS devices. Not only that, but you also have to make sure your app looks nice on different screen sizes.  This is where templates come in handy.

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Get Started With Retrofit 2 HTTP Client

Retrofit is a type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java. Retrofit makes it easy to connect to a REST web service by translating the API into Java interfaces. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use one of most popular and often-recommended HTTP libraries available for Android.

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Hot To Build A SpriteKit Game In Swift 3 (Part 2) – Smashing Magazine

Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a SpriteKit1 game? Does collision detection seem like a daunting task? Do you want to know how to properly handle sound effects and background music? Game-making has never been easier on iOS since the introduction of SpriteKit.

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How To Build A SpriteKit Game In Swift 3 (Part 1) – Smashing Magazine

Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a SpriteKit game from beginning to beta? Does developing a physics-based game seem daunting? Game-making has never been easier on iOS since the introduction of SpriteKit1. In this three-part series, we will explore the basics of SpriteKit.

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Firebase for Android: File Storage

During the 2016 Google I/O conference, Firebase was reintroduced to the developer community as a major tool for providing quick back-end support for web pages and mobile applications. This tutorial will introduce you to the file storage and retrieval functionality available for your Android apps.

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