Even a great app won’t achieve any success if it’s not marketed properly. What is your application about? What are its most important features? Why should people bother to download it? You should ask yourself these questions and take time before answering. A well written app...
Why bother messing with views when you can just bind them with any object and not worry about anything? In short, DataBinding allows us to eliminate a lot of boilerplate code and a lot of errors around that code. To start we are going to take a look at a...
Support annotations usage Android support annotations help developers in writing clean and bug-free code. Using annotations in code makes finding bugs easier and helps programmers avoid legacy code issues. Basicly annotations are metadata tags which improve error finding capabilities for code inspections tools. To give an example of how useful...
Introduction When the whole app development process is finished and your application is basically complete, you have to face one more challenge - “Promotion”. As you probably know getting featured in either App Store or Google Play might be troublesome - the competition for these spots is fierce. While there...
Testing service objects in Node.js (Mocha) Let’s continue our journey with service objects in Node.js. If you haven’t read a first part, here you have a change. Today we will show how to test them. But first of all - let me start with how to...
Let’s assue you are building your application with an outsourcing company with the best programmers. Does your company need a tech guy? - YES it does. CTO (chief technology officer) is a person in your company responsible for: Code clarity Your IT specialist ensures that product is being built...
In MVC frameworks it’s usual that controllers contain a lot of code and are the hardest part to understand; in consequence - to debug and refactor. Why? One of the answers would be: controllers don’t respect Single Responsibility Principle. Their job starts when they receive an HTTP request,...
Above all, the purpose of the agreement is to protect your software. The idea, the team and the commitment alone are worth just one dollar nowadays. A startup gains its real value when people start using it and the brand gains recognition. Therefore, in the early stages, it's the software...
DoD is a must in leansourcing. When you work on a project with external team - doing things is not enough. Things have to be done your way. What is DoD? Definition of done is a set of rules that have to be met until a team member can mark...
Digital Marketing Trends 2016 2015 is inevitably coming to an end. While preparing summaries and hopefully drawing conclusions you shouldn’t forget about the upcoming battle — 2016. It has a lot of changes in store for nearly all areas of business. In the article below I would like...