Bluetooth Low Energy on Android, Part 2
AndroidIn (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/blog/bluetooth-low-energy-part-1/) we set up our BLE Server and Client and were able to connect them. Now it's time to take a look...
Mobile App Maintenance Contracts: Recommended For A Reason
Technology changes, and as new iOS and Android operating systems are released and new phones hit the market, your app will be affected. This...
Accessibility Stories: Interfaces Are for Everyone
Clients iOS Leveling UpWWDC 2017's (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/806/) challenges developers to work for all our users. This post will teach you to rise to the challenge through...
Managing Front-End Assets in Vapor, Part 2: Using a Package Manager
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebIn part one of this series, we added some JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet files to our Vapor web app. We also manually downloaded...
Improve Usability in Your iOS App with These Features
Clients Design iOSYear after year, Apple rolls out platform features that greatly improve usability when they’re used correctly. Unfortunately, many apps that have been around for...
Want Kotlin on the Server? Do Ktor
Android Back-End Full-Stack WebIt has always been possible to use Kotlin on the server. Numerous Java server frameworks happily run any JVM bytecode, whether the code was...
tvOS Games, Part 4: Bullets and Explosions
iOSIn Part 4 of our series on tvOS game development, we add the important stuff: Bullets! Explosions! Death! Carnage! We'll discover how to create...
Bluetooth Low Energy on Android, Part 1
AndroidThere are many resources available on Bluetooth on Android, but unfortunately many are incomplete snippets, use out-of-date concepts, or only explain half of the...
Mockito 2: Updates And Issues
AndroidMockito, the popular Java test double library, got a major version bump last fall. We’ve been watching it ever since, and are excited about...
DESTROY ALL CLASSES: Turn React Components Inside Out with Functional Programming
Front-End Full-Stack Web Leveling UpWith React's stateless functional components, you can create ambitious apps that are 98% plain ol' JavaScript. This design encourages component purity and makes it...
The Important Role of the Product Owner: Leveling Up Our Clients
ClientsOne of the things that separates Big Nerd Ranch from the competition is that our clients walk away with better ways of building products...
Getting Started with Deferred
iOSAt Big Nerd Ranch, our iOS team has created a library called Deferred to help you work with values that have not yet been...
