mobility

Everybody knows about the Google Assistant, available on most Android and iPhone devices. As for “Hey Siri”, the well known “Ok Google” has entered common language. We probably all have already used it at least once if only to try it. However, the scope of its field of action and implementation seems to be mysterious for us developers. At least, it was for me until recently. Is it only a mobile feature? Can we use it in our application? What are the possibilities of interactions?…

Material Components is the (not so) new library made by the Material team to replace the old support design library. It provides components to apply Material Design in your application with ease. Among these components, you can find the famous FloatingActionButton, the CardView or the BottomSheet. But there are also some less known, nonetheless powerful, components. And one of them is the MaterialShapeDrawable.

Keeping your dependencies up to date is not the funniest part of a project dev process. Especially if the dependencies list becomes long. However, it is crucial to keep your dependencies as possible close to the up-to-date versions available in order to benefit from the latest upgrades (such as bug fixes). The longer you wait, the harder the upgrade will be. So what if you receive an email every week to inform your team about the last version available of your projects dependencies? Some tools like Lint…

ASIHttpRequest, AFNetworking, MKNetworkKit,… The iOS/MacOSX programming landscape is full of helper libraries to deal with asynchronous network communications in your applications. RestKit can be seen as yet another library to do it. However, its approach is radically different since it does not only address asynchronous networking but also object mapping and a seamless persistance of such mappings locally through CoreData. This approach is quite interesting when it comes to interact with Restful web services because of the time (and code!) you can save. In this…