Angular is the most powerful JavaScript framework for building highly interactive and dynamic web applications. And material design Is an adaptable system of guidelines, components, and tools that support the best practices of user interface design. In this article, Rachid Sakara is going to build a news application using Angular 6 and Google’s material design in combination, which will help you to make your future applications with Angular look great in web browsers and mobile devices.
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A Progressive Web App or PWA is a web application that has a set of capabilities which provide an app-like experience to users. PWAs need to meet a set of essential requirements. PWAs are similar to native apps but are deployed and accessible from web servers via URLs, so you don’t need to go through app stores. Throughout this tutorial, Ahmed Bouchefra will be using Angular 6 to build a Progressive Web Application, step by step, implementing the core tenets of PWAs using Angular CLI v6.
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With the release of iOS 12 and XCode 10, the view controller in the content extension now enables user interaction which means notifications will become even more powerful and customizable. There are several new notification features such as new authorization options, dynamic quick actions and user interaction within notifications. In this article, Kaya Thomas will take a look into how to implement these features and if they are right for your app.
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how can we detect the moment you and your phone are in the kitchen, or bedroom, or living room? With today’s commodity hardware, there are a myriad of possibilities: In this tutorial, Alvin Wan will show you how to build a desktop app that predicts which room you’re in using a simple machine learning algorithm: least squares. The code applies to any platform, but we only provide dependency installation instructions for Mac OSX.
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Frameworks such as Espresso and Mockito provide easy-to-use APIs that make writing tests for various scenarios easier. The important thing to consider while writing tests is the units of responsibility that emerge as you design the new feature. The unit test should cover all possible interactions with the unit, including standard interactions and exceptional scenarios. In this article, Vivek Maskara will cover the fundamentals of testing and frameworks which developers can use to write unit tests.
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Capacitor and cutting-edge web technologies such as Vue.js and Ionic 4 web components to build cross-platform mobile applications for Android and iOS.
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With modern email service providers, it’s easier than ever to create a first-class transactional email experience for your users, but, for most of us, the challenge lies in the fact that you don’t know what you don’t know. If you’re sending transactional email for your application, you’ve probably got the basics down, but you may be missing out on some of the more advanced best practices without even knowing it. With this guide, Garrett Dimon will help you make sure that you haven’t overlooked anything and aren’t unwittingly doing something wrong that could be hurting your delivery or user experience for your recipients.
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Flutter makes building cross-platform mobile applications a breeze. It allows high-performance, beautiful applications to be built for iOS and Android from a single code base. It is also the development platform for Google’s upcoming Fuchsia operating system. In this article, Mike Bluestein introduces Flutter, compares it to other mobile development platforms, and shows how to use it to get started building apps.
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WordPress can work as an excellent back-end platform for your next native app, especially if it is content-driven or an online shop. In this article, Muhammad Mushin will show you the foundations for building mobile apps with React Native and WordPress. You will learn how to build an e-commerce application for iOS and Android using the WooCommerce platform as your backend. This would be an ideal starting point for anyone willing to get into native cross-platform development.
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Not all developers are aware of how useful React Native actually is. Here are some tips on how to create an audio and video recording app by using Expo development tools. In this article, Oleh Mryhlod will share some insights about the high-level capabilities of React Native and the products you can develop with it in a short period of time. By the end of this guide, you should have all the necessary knowledge to create video/audio recording functionality with React Native. Let’s get into it.
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