Event buses, NSNotificationCenter and @channels
AndroidThere are good reasons people like event buses. Why have people come to hate them?
Hi! I’m #available!
iOS MacAs app developers, we don't have the luxury of shipping our software exclusively on the latest-and-greatest OS version. We want to use the new...
Announcing our Android Roadshow
AndroidOur first Android roadshow is bringing one-day classes to various cities.
Implementing Android Marshmallow Direct Share
AndroidDirect Share can save the user a bit of time and make sharing content more streamlined. But how do we actually add Direct Share...
Building an iOS App in Rust, Part 3: Passing Owned Objects between Rust and iOS
iOSIn Part 3 of our "Building an iOS App in Rust" series, we'll cover how to pass much more complex data than strings, and...
I Like Big Apps and I Cannot Lie: Using ProGuard to Avoid the Dalvik Method Limit
AndroidAs the Android community grows, so does the vast offering of available third-party libraries. Utilizing them allows developers to quickly and easily expand the...
Sass From Zero to Sixty
Front-End Full-Stack WebThis post will get new Sass users up and running, and help more seasoned users shift their sassiness into the fast lane.
CSS Sprite Management with Gulp
Front-End Full-Stack WebCSS sprites provide the ability to pack multiple small images into a single file, which is then used as a background on multiple HTML...
Inspecting Auto Layout with the Cocoa Layout Instrument
iOSIn previous posts, MarkD delved into many of the diagnostic tools available to us in Instruments, such as the Time Profiler and the Energy...
Metrics, Metrics: How We Improved our Website Performance, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack WebAlthough our site was certainly not slow (thanks to the static build), several metrics showed it could benefit from web optimizations. In this post,...
Introducing the Open-Source Big Nerd Ranch Core Data Stack
iOS MacWhen we at the Ranch use Core Data, we inevitably end up using it in a multi-threaded environment. The Right Way™ to use Core...
UI Testing in Xcode 7, Part 1: UI Testing Gotchas
iOSUI testing is testing via the user interface. This is nothing new; we do it all the time, manually, by running an app and...
