Metrics, Metrics: How We Improved our Website Performance
Front-End Full-Stack WebOur Nerds love graphs. Developers geek out on numbers, designers labor over information visualization, and ops + marketing love upward trends. Web developers, too,...
Server-Side Validation in Your Ember Application
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebBrowser validation has come a long way, but sometimes you need the server's help to determine whether is something is valid. This post explores...
Building an iOS App in Rust, Part 2: Passing Primitive Data Between Rust and iOS
iOSLast time, we built a simple "Hello, World!" library in Rust and successfully linked it into an iOS app. This time, we're going to...
Expand a RecyclerView in Four Steps
AndroidThe Expandable RecyclerView library is a lightweight library that simplifies the inclusion of expandable dropdown rows in your RecyclerView.
ViewPager Without Fragments
AndroidEvery once in a while, an Android developer might want to use a ViewPager without the added complexity of also using Fragments. A good...
Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition
AndroidIt's over! Brian, Kristin, Chris and I are finally done working on the second edition of [Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second...
Swift 2.0 Error Handling
iOS MacAs my fellow Nerd (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/about/the-team/juan-pablo-claude/) pointed out in his post on (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/blog/error-handling-in-swift-2/), the latest iteration of Swift introduces...
Testing Android Product Flavors with Robolectric
AndroidIn a previous post, I (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/blog/triumph-android-studio-1-2-sneaks-in-full-testing-support/) as part of Android development. Some inquisitive commenters...
To Kill -9 a Drone Daemon, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack WebLast time, (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/blog/to-kill-9-a-drone-daemon-part-1/) to shell into the Linux-powered (http://www.parrot.com/usa/products/rolling-spider/). This time, we’ll telnet...
Open-Source Licenses and Android
AndroidIf you’ve ever written an Android application, then you’ve likely used a third-party library in the process. The library may even have been open-source,...
WatchKit 2: Complications
iOSThere are a lot of nerds with a soft spot for (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horology). I tend towards chronographs; I love the extra functions for stopwatches, secondary...
We’ve Got You Covered: Code coverage and Xcode 7
iOS MacOne of Xcode 7’s new features is in-line display of code coverage metrics. Yay? That’s a pretty dull way of describing a nice feature....
