Backend, Meet Frontend: Managing Assets with Bower
Back-End Front-End Full-Stack WebDon’t manage vendor assets with Rails gems; use Bower and NPM. Here's a true story of how backend and frontend developers can work together.
Extracting Colors to a Palette with Android Lollipop
AndroidEditor’s Note:n This post has been updated since its initial release. The generate(Bitmap) and generate(Bitmap, PaletteAsyncListener) methods have been deprecated in favor of a builder static...
All in Together: Android Studio, Gradle and Robolectric
Android ClientsIn May of 2014, we made the switch to Android Studio as our preferred Android IDE, migrating away from Eclipse in our ({{...
2014 by the Numbers
In the past 365 days (that’s 8,760 hours or 525,949 minutes), we’ve been busy developing, teaching and learning. Let’s take a scroll down memory...
RecyclerView Part 2: Choice Modes
AndroidLet's take another look at choice modes in Android Lollipop's RecyclerView.
‘Port’ Isn’t a Dirty Word: Moving your iOS Apps to Android
Android Design iOSFor a designer, the word “port” can be cringe-inducing. By definition, a port is an application adapted from one environment to another. However, what...
Implementing Swipe to Refresh, an Android Material Design UI Pattern
AndroidOne of the great ideas formalized in the new Material Design user interface guidelines is the (http://www.google.com/design/spec/patterns/swipe-to-refresh.html). In fact, you've...
Swift Access Control
iOSSwift access control enables you to hide the implementation details of your code and to specify a preferred interface through which that code can...
RecyclerView Part 1: Fundamentals For ListView Experts
AndroidAndroid Lollipop's RecyclerView makes animating items into and out of a list of content much easier. Getting RecyclerView to cleanly transition into a multiple...
Considerate Commenting
Leveling UpComments have been the target of much negative advice—delete them! rewrite to eliminate them!—but little positive advice. Let’s take a look at why they get...
Polishing Your Android Overview Screen Entry
AndroidLooking for a way to further polish your Android app on Lollipop? One option a lot of developers overlook is the Overview Screen.
How to use Facebook’s React Library to Build UIs, Part 2
Front-End Full-Stack WebIn my previous post, we created a simple UI component with Facebook’s React library. Now, we’ll create data flows between multiple components.
