Mobile app usability testing: what it is and why it’s important Have you ever spent a considerable amount of time and effort on a specific task and created something that you feel attached to it? I think we can safely admit that it has happened to all of us quite a few times in our…
Small and large business owners alike, startups and entrepreneurs can all face the same questions at some point – “Do I need a mobile app for my business?”, “is it worthwhile?”, “Does it makes sense from a strategic perspective?”, “Will it help us increase revenue, onboard and convert new customers?” — to this end we prepared a rundown on how to build…
Covid-19 into our lives — a Software Engineer’s Perspective and Thoughts Hi guys, hope you are doing well with all this unprecedented situation we are living over the past months. In this post I want to discuss my thoughts and feelings that emerged through the coronavirus situation, the mandatory quarantine, and the change of our daily (and not…
Why your e-commerce & retail business needs a mobile app E-commerce websites have been met with tremendous success in the last decade and lately, due to the Coronavirus developments, demand for online shopping has skyrocketed to new levels, rendering a retail business without an online presence completely irrelevant. Why mobile apps are critical for e-commerce stores Studies have shown that nearly 90% of prospect customers use…
Since my previous article, the landscape and tooling around React Native have changed, so I wanted to provide an updated post for React Native best practices in 2020. There are also quite a few more areas to cover, so this article is also intended to work as a continuation of the previous post. Use Expo-Kit only if you know exactly…
Coronavirus Pandemic: Why Technology Matters More than Ever Today Even before the coronavirus pandemic struck, remote working was accelerating in most business hubs, but the next few months will be key to how things develop in the future and how the ways we work are shaped for the future. The accelerating factors are pretty obvious;…
As Coronavirus has entered the scene and countries and companies are escalating safety and prevention measures to finally control the spread, remote working has been put in the spotlight once again, and now it matters more than ever. As we enter a new decade, we can take a moment to consider the trends that changed…
If you are new to the React Native world, there are some pitfalls that you probably want to avoid while in some other cases you will have to make choices upfront maybe without knowing how important they are. Below I have compiled a list of best practices from my personal experience, which I hope you…
Why lock application orientation mode? Many applications have their User Interface (UI) designed to contain a lot of elements. To have these applications change their orientation (i.e. from portrait to landscape), it would mean that users will have a bad UI experience and also a lot of scrolling to deal with. A typical example of…
Navigation is a chapter that has “troubled” RN developers for some time now. Actually, it still troubles us. When I started with RN, 1.5 years ago, Navigator component was the suggested cross platform approach from React Native documentation itself. The bad news came a few months later, when RN team deprecated it and removed it completely from…