Volley is a useful library and can save the day for any developer. It can handle multiple request types, such as JSON, images and text, and it performs better than AsyncTask. Volley is an integral part of Chetan’s toolkit, and it’s a huge win for any development team in any project. Let’s review what Volley is and get to know its benefits. In this article, Chetan Giridhar would like to take you through his experience of using networking libraries in Android, focusing on APIs.
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Nic Raboy is an application developer that has been developing mobile applications as a hobby for the past five years. In this article, Nic is going to tell his story about mobile application development. He will look at some of the common problems with developing mobile applications, both native and hybrid, and how NativeScript by Telerik fills the gap. He’ll proceed to develop a NativeScript Android and iOS application from scratch, and then convert the same application to use the bleeding-edge Angular 2 JavaScript framework.
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In this article, Jordan Crone will talk about his experience with Cross-OS mobile app development. His goal was to cut through the typical pains in the app development process and create a three-platform app in four weeks.
His team was working with Scripps, an American cable TV media company; their new business development team had been working on concepts for new, rapidly developable apps. They wanted to prove that app development could be done leanly and agilely by working quickly, eliminating unnecessary clutter, utilizing cross-device user experience similarities and leveraging web views.
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For those of us who use Varnish and also want to move to HTTPS, there is a problem: Varnish doesn’t support HTTPS. If you make the move to SSL, configuring Apache to serve your website securely, then you lose the speed advantage of Varnish. There is a relatively straightforward way to deal with this issue, and that is to stick something in between incoming SSL requests and Varnish, a layer that handles the secure connection and SSL certificates and then passes the request back to Varnish. In this article, Rachel Andrew will show you how to move your website to HTTPS, taking advantage of Varnish Cache.
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In this article, Patrick Rudolph provides many hints, code snippets and lessons learned on how to build great hybrid mobile apps. He’ll briefly introduce hybrid mobile app development, including its benefits and drawbacks. Then, Patrick will share lessons he has learned from over two years of developing Hojoki and CatchApp, both of which run natively on major mobile platforms and were built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Finally, you’ll review the most prominent tools to wrap code in a native app.
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The vast majority of practices from the world of manufacturing have come to influence how things are done when designing and building software products as well. Lean thinking is one of the latest approaches software development companies have adopted to maximize value and reduce wasted effort and resources by breaking down an objective into a series of experiments. Approaches like design thinking tend to be lean by nature. There is a huge opportunity, however, to take this notion even further and align design to the new ways digital products are being built and improved on. Let’s look first at the current approach towards design and how it has an impact on the product.
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The popularity of mobile has skyrocketed over the past few years. We’ve seen six generations of iPhones, five iPad models, hundreds of Android phones and thousands of different devices being manufactured.
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Sometimes, UX practitioners need some time to work through big design issues that don’t fit neatly into an existing user story or an individual sprint. This article will explore one answer to these problems: design spikes. This give UX teams a framework to conduct big-picture design within the scrum process.
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Lean UX is an approach that quickly followed the lean startup movement. It is not a new thing. It’s just a new name for things that were always around. This article takes the principles of the lean startup and suggests their UX research equivalents.
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A top WordPress developer moves far beyond the basics, and pushes the very boundaries of what is possible. They innovate, contribute to the community, and demonstrate mastery in the work they do. In this post, Jonathen Wold wants you to have some tips to become one of the best WordPress developers.
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