Machine learning
Machine learning technology and how it can be used in app development
Style Advice App Development with Features Based on Machine Learning Technology
Check out how we can develop a stylish and fashionable advice app with personal recommendations for iOS and Android platforms with the help of machine learning.
Tendencies, Prospects, and Recent Developments of Machine Learning
In this post, we're talking about machine learning, discussing its origins, applications in modern mobile industry, and giving predictions for future.
Predicting House Price Using Regression Algorithm for Machine Learning
We have prepared a step-by-step guide of using regression algorithms in machine learning, to help you predict house prices for a given area.
AR and VR
We are going to see more mature AR and VR-driven applications soon. Here are some of our latest articles on the topic
How to Create Engaging Virtual Reality Apps
There are 2 ways to design content for virtual reality apps: using a 360-degree camera and 3D animation. Here is how to implement VR in mobile app development.
Ascape: How We Designed the Virtual Reality App With 360 Virtual Tours
Read a description of how we developed a virtual tour app. This article will guide you right from the prototyping process to each screen we designed.
15 TOP Mobile Apps by NASA: How NASA Bounced over the Augmented Reality
This is an overview of 15 apps designed by NASA which we can use in our everyday life. They include educational, imaging, and augmented reality apps.
What Best Augmented Reality Apps Exist and In What Fields Your Business Can Apply AR
Here we have a list of mobile apps that have successfully adopted the Augmented Reality technology. Let's see what they offer to their users and what we can learn from them.
Slice Planner, the Mixture of Computer Vision and Augmented Reality Technology: How We Contributed in Developing the First Notebook Connected to Digital Calendar
Learn how Slice Planner utilizes computer vision and augmented reality technology, to keep your plans on paper synced with digital calendars.
Are chatbots the future?
We explored the topic of chatbots and here is what we think about the development of products in this field of AI
How to Fight the App Fatigue
Find out more about the so called "app fatigue" and the evolving technologies that are surely going to change the way we develop mobile apps.
Communication with Bots: Everything You Need to Know About Chatbot Development
Creating bot platforms and chatbots is the hottest trend in messenger development. We'll tell you how to develop a chatbot using examples of the best ones.
5 Promising Chatbot Apps Powered by Artificial Intelligence
Here we have the list of five best chatbot applications powered by artificial intelligence. Let's find out how effective and useful they are.
Apps for smartwatches
A watch face constructor for Android Wear and the Apple Watch extension for the My Day app are two examples of products that we built for wearables
Animated My Day Watch App: How Apple’s Activity App Inspired Us
Explore our experience in building an animated Watch App. You'll also get to know its capabilities and how we designed the glance interface for the app.
Customizable Constructor for Designers of Android Wear
Discover how to find the perfect Android Wear watch face that fits all your needs. That is why we developed a watch face constructor can be handy.
Audio processing on Android
Technology behind Horizon, our open source library for sound visualization
Drawing a Cubic Bezier with OpenGL ES as a Useful Solution for Sound Visualization on Android
From this post, you'll learn about our experience drawing Bezier curves with Android Canvas for Horizon, and our open source library for sound visualization.
The Horizon Project: Useful Techniques to Process Audio for Your Android Project
In this article, we're talking about sound manipulation techniques that we used for our Horizon open source library for sound visualization.
How We Created Horizon, Our Open Source Library for Sound Vizualization
Discover how Yalantis created Horizon, an open sourse library for sound visualization that can enrich the funtionality of your media application.
Mastering architecture on iOS
Our findings experimenting with architectural patterns while developing iOS applications
Lightweight iOS View Controllers
When developing applications on iOS, View Controllers tend to become cumbersome and confusing which cause...
How to Achieve Loose Coupling?
All developers know that tightly coupled code elements represent a heavyweight complexity. The code writt...
“Tree of Models”: an Alternative App Development Approach
Learn more about an alternative approach for iOS app development, called the Tree of Models, and discover how it can improve the app development process.
uCrop for Android
uCrop is our open source image cropping library for Android. It lets you scale and rotate images, change crop aspect ratio, and supports touch gestures
How We Introduced uCrop, an Image Cropping Library for Android
uCrop allows you to clip images for further use on Android. Its key features include scaling images, rotating images, changing crop aspect ratio, supporting touch gestures and more
uCrop, the Image Cropping Library for Android: Look under the Hood of Our Masterpiece
Get under the hood of our cropping library for Android and discover a case study of how we developed uCrop that received much attention from GitHub.
Tinder Swipes
Our open source component that improves Tinder-like swipe-right-to-like-left-to-pass animation
How to Prototype in Pixate and Develop in Swift a Second Version of Tinder-Like Koloda Animation
Want to know how we built a Tinder-style card-based animation? The component repeats the Tinder swipe-to-like interface but has a custom implementation.
How to Prototype in Pixate and Develop in Swift a Second Version of Tinder-Like Koloda Animation
This is a follow-up on Tinder-Like Koloda animation we developed. This time we talk about how we changed the cards layout in its second version.
Database
Some lessons about CoreData migration and experiments with FastEasyMapping, our own library for mapping JSON to objects
8 Handy Tips to Succeed in CoreData Migration
Iterative app development always entails CoreData migration. Working with iterative development, we’ve le...
From JSON to Core Data Fast
High-speed performance is a must for development. Our FastEasyMapping library is faster than MagicalRecord, MagicalRecord fork, Mantle, and EasyMapping.
Choosing the Right Database: Factors That Will Help You Make a Wise Decision
Choosing a database is a crucial part of web app development, since the database is responsible for storing and managing all data you collect. Discover the types of databases and best DB solutions.
When you need to move
How do you move from one platform to another one and from Objective-C to Swift? Some advice on when you need to move
How to Port Your App to Another Platform
From requirements gathering to development, design, and testing. Learn what we typically do to make transition to another platform fast and flexible.
How to Turn a Website Into a Mobile App
Wonder how to turn a website into a mobile app? Check out some business considerations, user expectations, and differences between web and mobile platforms.
How You Can Migrate from Objective-C to Swift
The advantages of Swift as a programming language if compared to Objective-C and how it is possible to move from Objective-C to Swift
Is Mobile-First Still a Trend? How to Choose the First Platform for Your Product
If you're looking to make your product go viral, check out the Mobile First concept and three more approaches for the App Store optimization.
iBeacon and beacons
A brief look on the iBeacon technology and our experiment developing an app powered by beacons
How We Built iBeacon-based SilentBeacon App
It’s been two years since Apple introduced iBeacon technology to its 254 U.S. retail stores proclaiming t...
iBeacon and Other Types of Beacons: Seven Most Important Things to Keep In Mind
iBeacon is a new big thing for location-based startups. Today we discuss how this technology works and what you need to build an iBeacon-based app.
Mobile payments
Figuring out which mobile payment technology is right for your app can be a challenge. Here is what we have to say about different mobile payment services
Stripe or Braintree: What Payment System to Integrate with Your App
In this article we compare the ways Stripe and Braintree process payments via mobile apps along with the documentation and features they provide for developers.
Apple Pay Capabilities and How to Integrate It Using Stripe For Your Shopping App?
In this article, we uncover how your shopping app can benefit from integrating with Apple’s new payment system compatible with all existing proximity readers.
Three Tips to Update Your Mobile Payment Application
With the growth of mobile consumption, mobile payment apps posper. Discover best ways to innovate you app and top issues to address and fix.
NFC in Android & Payment Cards
Can you emulate a payment card with a phone? Find out the niceties of NFC environment. You'll also learn how NFC tags and payment cards work.
Mobile App Payment Gateway Integration
How do you enable financial transactions in your app? Learn more about the solutions like Braintree, Stripe, card-present transactions, Square, and PayPal Here.
How to Develop a Bitcoin Wallet App. Opportunities of Bitcoin in Mobile Payments
This post is on one of our products - a Bitcoin wallet app. Take advantage of the innovative payment network and use our experience to build a similar solution.
Performance tuning
How do you make things run faster? Check out our experiments
From JSON to Core Data Fast
High-speed performance is a must for development. Our FastEasyMapping library is faster than MagicalRecord, MagicalRecord fork, Mantle, and EasyMapping.
Why Is Swift Faster Than Objective-C?
We used two approaches to measuring performance in Swift and Objective-C. Discover what are the results and what conclusion we can make after the comparison.
Some Important Aspects of UIKit Performance
Even though a lot of articles and WWDC sessions are devoted to UIKit performance, this topic still remain...
Node.js vs Go: Which Is Better for Backend Web Development?
To help you choose best backend solution for you project wisely, we compare Go and Node.js in terms of performance, error handling, scalability, and tooling.