Bitrise Tests Made Easier: Add JIRA Build Step and Forget About Delays in QA Testing

With the new Android version, Nougat 7.1 (API 25), Google gives us some interesting possibilities. One of them is the option to create shortcuts to an application. In this post I will show you how static shortcuts work.

The new version of iOS introduces a number of changes concerning both local and server notifications. We can use a new framework, UserNotifications, which enables both delivering and handling notifications.

Recently, the new 3.0 version of the Swift language has been presented. Some of the noticeable changes include modifications involving the removal of functions which have already been removed in Swift 2.2. Changes involving modernization of the language are also present.

Clean-swift architecture is very simple and does not require any additional libraries. It consists of 3 layers that nicely separate views from logic. Find out what makes them special and how they are related to each other.

Nowadays, there are tools that help us a lot to manage the memory when creating apps. Because of that, most software developers rarely encounter memory problems (or are simply unaware of them). However, every once in a while, we have to face some memory leaks. What do we do then? The most common method is to activate the Instruments tool and debug the problem, which can often be quite laborious. With the release of the new Xcode 8, Apple has introduced a new tool which significantly facilitates that – Visual Memory Debugger.

Introducing 10th version of iOS, Apple gave developers a new tool – UIViewPropertyAnimator. It enhances options of creating animation in our application. What can we do with this tool, and how to use it?

Today, I will talk about one of the frameworks added in iOS 9: Core Spotlight . API allows you to add content to spotlight search engine, so that, for example, an application used for watching movies allows for adding movies, actors, directors and reacting if users select an item, so that we can move them to the desired location within the application.

When bringing to the smartphone market iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, Apple presented to the world 3D Touch. Thanks to the option of checking touch pressure, this function facilitates diversification of interaction of users with their phones at the moment of contact. This allows, for example, implementing application behaviour varying on how you touch a screen.

When getting into the subject of dependency injection, we need to understand numerous new techniques that enable us to control created objects. Dagger allows developers to declare interfaces that will handle that. We can create an interface which will be a component or a subcomponent. What is the difference?