Unirest – Lightweight HTTP Library For PHP, Ruby, Python, Java And Objective-C
Today, HTTP requests are used widely in websites as we fetch data using APIs, get screenshots or AJAX requests. Unirest is a pack of lightweight HTTP libraries for many languages (PHP, Ruby, Python,...
View ArticleSharing Your Experiences: How To Contribute To WordPress
WordPress is built by volunteers. People from all over the world collaborate to create the core software, write the documentation, provide support, translate WordPress, organize events and...
View ArticleTest Automation Framework For Native & Hybrid Mobile Apps – Appium
When building and updating native mobile apps, testing them can be a pain as this may require including an SDK or recompiling the app. Appium is an open source framework which helps automating mobile...
View ArticleIs the Web Ready for Responsive Web Design?
Advertise here via BSA The Mobile Playing Field Today, a large portion of site traffic comes from mobile devices—namely smart phones and tablets—in addition to traditional PCs. Across the globe,...
View ArticleDynamic UIs For Native Mobile Apps – Pixate
Pixate is a free platform for creating the user interface of native mobile apps with CSS . It is actually a graphics engine that transforms CSS into scalable graphic s, bitmap effects and more. The...
View ArticleEmail Marketing For Mobile App Creators
If you’ve developed mobile applications or have just started building one, then you probably realize that marketing should be as much of an ongoing concern as the product’s design and development....
View ArticleConferences Roundup: Upcoming Web Design Events (Sept. 2013 – Feb. 2014)
This year has already offered us lots of fantastic Web conferences and events, and guess what, it still hasn’t come to an end! You can continue to plan ahead and make sure that you don’t miss your...
View ArticleBest Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code
Much has been written recently in the ongoing debate between native and HTML5 applications. There are three principal ways to develop a mobile solution: native code, hybrid mobile app, mobile Web...
View ArticleFour Ways To Build A Mobile Application, Part 1: Native iOS
The mobile application development landscape is filled with many ways to build a mobile app. Among the most popular are: native iOS, native Android, PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium. This article...
View ArticleGood-Looking Animations For iOS – Canvas
When developing with Xcode and Objective-C, it is usually hard and time-consuming to create animations. Canvas is a project that makes adding good-looking animations easy for iOS apps. With almost no...
View ArticleGood-Looking Animations For iOS – Canvas
When developing with Xcode and Objective-C, it is usually hard and time-consuming to create animations. Canvas is a project that makes adding good-looking animations easy for iOS apps. With almost no...
View ArticleFour Ways To Build A Mobile Application, Part 3: PhoneGap
This is the third installment in a series covering four ways to develop a mobile application. In previous articles, we examined how to build a native iOS and native Android tip calculator. In this...
View ArticlePop – Extensible iOS and OS X Animation Library
Advertise here via BSA Pop is an extensible animation engine for iOS and OS X. In addition to basic static animations, it supports spring and decay dynamic animations, making it useful for building...
View ArticleThe Mystery Of The jQuery Object: A Basic Introduction
Have you ever come across a bit of JavaScript like $(".cta").click(function(){}) and thought, “What the $('#x') is that” If it looks like gibberish to you, then please read on. If you think that...
View ArticleHow Limitations Led To My Biggest App Store Success and Failure
Look at your calendar. If you’re anything like me, all you see are meetings, places to go, things to do, people to meet and not a lot of white space. Few people love their calendar. So, we set out to...
View ArticleIntroducing Avocode — PSD to Code Without Photoshop
Photoshop has been a part of web design for years, and it’s very likely to continue as such for a long time. If you design for the web using Photoshop, or you’re a developer who handles coding up...
View ArticleUnderstanding Mobile Back End As A Service
What if you could create an entire back end for your mobile applications that was feature-complete in data synchronization, push-notification support, user management and file-handling before you even...
View ArticlePutting Mobile Back End As A Service Into Practice (Part 1)
In a previous article 1 I introduced mobile back end as a service (MBaaS) which aims at giving app developers the ability to create seamlessly new feature-complete cross-platform native and web...
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