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Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020

Are you starting 2020 off on the right foot? How about keeping up with those resolutions to learn or try something new? Either way, you’re in luck. This roundup is packed with new tools to help you through projects or learn new tricks to enhance your skillset. Here’s what’s new for designers this month. Calcolor… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, February 2020

Start With These Courses and Tutorials

Ever since the catchphrase “There’s an app for that” played on a television commercial, there’s been a strong and growing interest in creating mobile apps, especially for Apple and iOS devices. Mobile apps are used by hundreds of millions of users per day, with more than 100 million iPhone users estimated to exist in the… Continue reading Start With These Courses and Tutorials

How Many Programming Languages Should I Learn?

How many programming languages should the average developer learn? While most programmers are expert in one or two languages, how many should they be familiar with? There isn’t a limit to the number of programming languages that any one person can learn. Your memory can expand infinitely inward, but that doesn’t make it easy. Just… Continue reading How Many Programming Languages Should I Learn?

The 7 Programming Languages Web Developers Need To Know in 2019

March 19, 2019 by Alex Fox It might not seem important for web developers to learn programming languages. After all, HTML and CSS can develop some incredible sites all on their own. But JavaScript, PHP, and Swift can all extend the functionality of your web page significantly in was that CSS can’t hope to accomplish.… Continue reading The 7 Programming Languages Web Developers Need To Know in 2019

Top Programming Languages For Mobile App Development In 2019

It doesn’t matter if you are someone who is just entering the app development industry or someone who holds expertise in the field of software development, programming languages act as a basic foundation for them. But there are a ton of programming languages out there and to find out the one that is suitable for… Continue reading Top Programming Languages For Mobile App Development In 2019

What’s New in Core ML 2?

Last year, Apple launched Core ML—a segue into the world of machine learning for Apple developers. Before that, we were already using machine learning with technologies like AutoCorrect, Siri, and a predictive keyboard, but Core ML brought a new level of power and flexibility into the hands of developers. During WWDC 18, Apple announced Core… Continue reading What’s New in Core ML 2?

Introduction to Firebase

We are in an era of rapid prototyping. We may get bright ideas, but sometimes they don’t get implemented if they take too much work. Often, the back-end is the limiting factor—many ideas never get implemented due to lack of knowledge or time for server-side coding. As a mobile developer, using a back-end as a service (BaaS) platform can… Continue reading Introduction to Firebase

8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4

Swift is one of the fastest-growing languages in history, due to its elegance, simplicity, and “safety by design”. In fact, Swift’s official mantra is “to make programming simple things easy, and difficult things possible”. In this post, you’ll learn how to use Swift to its fullest by refactoring your code. While a lot of the… Continue reading 8 New Ways to Refactor Your Code With Swift 4

Mobile App Development 2.0: Build Data-Driven Native Apps On-The-Fly

Posted · Category: Information Everyday, startups and enterprises alike find themselves asking the question: Should we build a mobile app? In 2017, for most, the answer is certainly “Yes we should, but… (insert seemingly insurmountable challenge associated with mobile development here).” The most common challenges include: 1. It’s too expensive2. It requires expert level coding… Continue reading Mobile App Development 2.0: Build Data-Driven Native Apps On-The-Fly

Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource

Dropsource is a brand new mobile application development platform that was built with the developer’s needs in mind. What does this mean exactly? It means that its sole purpose is to make a developer’s job easier and to make building a data-driven native mobile app as simple as drag and drop. Dropsource comes equipped with… Continue reading Visually Build Native Apps Right In Your Browser With Dropsource

Turn Your Web App Into A Native App

Posted · Category: Information Web apps are awesome, but many are not optimized for mobile, or are done so in ways that leaves much to be desired. These days, a poor mobile experience can quickly drive away users and kill engagement. While app users’ attention spans are shortening, they increasingly demand truly native mobile app… Continue reading Turn Your Web App Into A Native App

Turn Your Web App Into A Native App

Posted · Category: Tools Web apps are awesome, but many are not optimized for mobile, or are done so in ways that leaves much to be desired. These days, a poor mobile experience can quickly drive away users and kill engagement. While app users’ attention spans are shortening, they increasingly demand truly native mobile app… Continue reading Turn Your Web App Into A Native App

Turn Your Web App Into A Native App

Rapid, Interactive Prototyping With Xcode Playgrounds

What You’ll Be Creating Introduction Since their introduction in Xcode 6 alongside Swift, to their current iteration in Xcode 7.3.1, playgrounds have come a long way. With new features and better stability, they are evolving into a viable tool for rapid prototyping or quickly hacking together a proof of concept. As a developer, sometimes you have… Continue reading Rapid, Interactive Prototyping With Xcode Playgrounds

Swift 2.0 Essential Training

Swift 2.0 Essential Training 6h 0m Beginner Apple introduced Swift in June 2014, describing it as Objective-C without the C. Yet with version 2, announced in June 2015, Swift is pulling away from its Objective-C origins and breaking new ground as a modern language that is safe, fast, and expressive. In this training course, Scott… Continue reading Swift 2.0 Essential Training

Apple Swift Makes iOS and Mac Apps Development Easy

Apple’s New Free Programming Language – Apple Swift is set to make iOS App development easier than ever. Apple announced a totally new programming language known as SWIFT, for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, at WWDC 2014. It is a big deal for Apple as they launched a new programming language after a long break of… Continue reading Apple Swift Makes iOS and Mac Apps Development Easy

Beautiful Graphics Framework for Material Design in Swift

Material is a graphics and animation framework for Google’s Material Design. It is designed to allow the creativity of others to easily be expressed. It includes Fully Configurable UI Components, Base Material Layers & Material Views To Create New UI Components, Side Navigation View Controller, Navigation Bar View, Material Buttons, Material Card Views, Camera /… Continue reading Beautiful Graphics Framework for Material Design in Swift

Free Swift Tutorials for Apple’s New Programming Language

Unveiled only a month ago, the new programming language Swift that was created by Apple for iOS developers shook up Xcode lovers a bit. It aims to provide programmers with an alternative that slowly should replace Objective-C, which is not so resilient against erroneous code. Swift includes slightly revised basic Objective-C features and new advanced… Continue reading Free Swift Tutorials for Apple’s New Programming Language

Swift Web Development Techniques for Startup Landing Pages

When launching a new startup online you need to consider the features which will draw attention. Visitors can often be easily distracted when browsing the Internet. So ask yourself what value does your page really offer to the average visitor? Developers should think about these topics from a user experience point-of-view. Then the process of… Continue reading Swift Web Development Techniques for Startup Landing Pages