Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - is an important person in your startup, especially if you have zero tech-related knowledge. The fact that there’s a word “technology” in the title may be a bit misleading. A good CTO has to have more than only tech skills. There are at least...
Android applications often need to display different attributes in TextViews. Part of those attributes are not simple Strings, which might cause some problems. Let’s assume we have an object User with a birth date field. Now, if user’s birth date needs to be displayed, there are several approaches....
If you’re reading this, I’m going to assume that you know why it’s important to have a CTO on board in your company, especially if you’re planning to outsource your software development. If not, make sure you check our CTO’s latest article - Why Do...
At RST software house we focus on building our sales based on a model that enables it to scale. What is our understanding of scalability in sales? The sales process consists of two stages: Prospecting, or raising interest in our services in as many potential clients as possible, and Individual...
During creation of our apps we often find it necessary to have data for testing views and logic. Think of a situation when you have to display a lot of data in the list, it’s quite a common case for an android dev. Our example app also has to...
Ruby on Rails applications sometimes require an ability to supply the same business logic with separation of models data for a group of clients. This circumstance is also known as multi-tenancy. This way one user does not see other users' activities nor has access to their data. The most common...
Mobile applications that don’t use the network are a rare thing today. What shall we do when the Internet is not available? A well-designed application contains an offline mode using local storage. There are multiple libraries which support this solution. In the article, I would like to focus on...
App versioning is a critical component of our applications' upgrade and maintenance strategy. It’s important because users need to have specific information about the application version that is installed on their devices and the upgrade versions available for installation, and we, developers, have to be able to track bugs...
Some time ago we noticed that in our apps there are a lot of different libraries, often responsible for the same things, but with distinct APIs, for instance: Retrofit vs Volley, Dagger vs RoboGuice, Requery vs OrmLite. It became difficult to switch to another project or introduce minor changes because...
Coding style is an important part of writing professional, production ready code. It directly affects the comfort of work and should be kept consistent. At RST IT we maintain consistent style across all our projects by enforcing strict rules for iOS and Android apps. iOS Our iOS developers chose The...