Firebase App Distribution: Improving our sharing process

We wanted to make sharing our apps with testers easier

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Kotlin Multiplatform iOS: Certificate Pinning

How to implement certificate pinning in Kotlin Multiplatform using Ktor

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Starting out in a new industry

Jonny is our latest junior developer, here’s his experience of working at Brightec so far…

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Kotlin Multiplatform Android/iOS: Connecting coding and culture

Kotlin Multiplatform Android/iOS: Coding and culture

How does Kotlin Multiplatform affect your development culture?

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Kotlin Multiplatform Android/iOS: Testing

A how-to guide on writing tests within Kotlin Multiplatform.

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Kotlin Multiplatform Android/iOS: Project Structure Strategies

A guide to how should you structure your multiplatform project?

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Taking a checkout conversion rate from 45% to 65%

Updates that make a huge increase to checkout conversion rates.

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Flutter - is this the answer?

Could Google's cross-platform solution solve all our problems?

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Handling International Addresses in Android

How to structure your data to handle different address formats from around the world.

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Cross-platform vs native app development?

At Brightec, we’re specialists in native mobile apps. But is there ever a place for the cross-platform frameworks offered by the likes of React Native or Xamarin?

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Top tips for using Xcode templates

We've been taking a closer look at Xcode templates - here are some of the things we've discovered.

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Enterprise Mobile App Development: 5 ways to plan for success

We offer insights into key issues to consider in the early stages of enterprise mobile app development.

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Swift Code: UI Testing Tips

Chris explores the topic of UI Testing your View Controllers in isolation

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Spend more time in the Playground

In case you missed it, Apple released an experimental coding environment alongside their Swift programming language. So we had a play...

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Using Google Cloud Endpoints

APIs need protecting - when we were recently using Google App Engine we explored Google Cloud Endpoints and utilised them to improve the security.

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Queued tasks on App Engine for Firebase

We’ve recently been exploring Google App Engine with Firebase. Here’s how we queued tasks between them.

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Trigger Firebase Cloud Functions

How do you trigger Firebase Cloud Functions when a file gets uploaded? We recently needed to take regularly updated text files and read them into a database. Here’s how we used Firebase to do it.

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The current state of our iOS architecture

Exploring best architectures is a constant endeavour. Here’s an update of where we are currently at.

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Apple & white label apps

Find out more about Apple's recent store cleanup and white label apps

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May 2017 - Which devices and versions of iOS are most popular?

Each month we take a brief look at the devices and versions of iOS and Android which are currently in use.

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April 2017 - Which devices and versions of iOS are most popular?

Every month we take a brief look at the devices and versions of iOS which are currently in use.

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Mar17 - Which devices & versions of iOS are most popular?

A quick glance at which versions of iOS and which device sizes were most popular in March 2017

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Feb 17 - Which devices & versions of iOS are most popular?

We took a look at which versions of iOS and which device sizes were most popular in February 2017

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Overloading Swift Operators

We explore how to overload existing operators in Swift 3.x

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Apple Event 2016 - The Headlines

Our thoughts on the Apple Event from 7th September 2016. Was it all about the headphone jack?

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Custom iOS camera that replicates system camera app

How to create a custom camera view controller that replicates the functionality and UI that’s found in the system camera app

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WWDC 2016

We've become used to big announcements and exciting innovations through the 27-year history of Apple's annual WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference). What would the 2016 edition bring us?

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Turning an iPhone into an iBeacon

Want to experiment with iBeacons but can’t afford the technology? Perhaps an iPhone is the answer instead.

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iOS Custom Drawing for Beginners

A simple tutorial to help you create iOS custom drawing components

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tvOS Focus Engine

At the heart of interactions on tvOS lies the Focus Engine.

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Apple TV Tech Talk London

Our highlights from the recent Apple TV Tech Talk event in London

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Four apps maximising UX on Apple TV

We took a look at how 4 different apps make use of new UX & UI opportunities on tvOS

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Creating Top Shelf content for your tvOS App

A quick guide to developing Top Shelf content for a tvOS app.

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Straight out the box - iPad Pro

Today we got our mitts on the new iPad Pro. Would it live up to the hype? Would it really be that big?

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Apple Event - September 2015

We hosted a Brighton Mobbers meet up on Wednesday evening to watch the latest Apple Event.

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Communicating between two devices using WebSockets

How we used WebSockets to enable two devices to communicate with each other.

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Implications of WWDC 2015

What are the key implications for developers that came out of WWDC 2015?

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In summary - WWDC 2015

It's that time of year again. So what did we learn from WWDC 2015?

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Straight out the box - Apple Watch

We got our hands on the much vaunted Apple Watch. Here’s our preliminary thoughts

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Wearable Technology. Apple Watch bursts the market open?

The launch of the Apple Watch heralded a major step forward in the sphere of ‘Wearable Technology’. Or did it?

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Information for the App Store

So you have an app! Job done? Almost, there is a little more work to do yet.

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IBDesignable and IBInspectable with CoreGraphics

Working with CoreGraphics can be a developer's nightmare. It’s our bogey-man hiding under the bed.

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Best practice in app tracking

App tracking (analytics) holds obvious benefits to developers and their clients but it can be fraught with difficulty. How much and what tracking is needed? What is ‘best practice’ for tracking?

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Apple Spring Forward Reviewed

‘Anyone want any cold pizza?’ Our thoughts on the Apple Spring Forward Event.

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PreferredMaxLayoutWidth

We explain one of the most confusing UILabel properties - preferredMaxLayoutWidth

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7 difficulties of internationalisation & localisation

Seven of the most difficult aspects of internationalisation and localisation.

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Objective-C code in a Swift project

Objective-C code is Shakespearean English and Swift is the latest London Cockney slang?

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One layout to rule them all

Remember those days, the good ol’ days; when there was just one device, with one screen and one resolution?

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UICollectionView using horizontal and vertical scrolling with sticky rows and columns

A tableview which could be scrolled both horizontally and vertically?

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Review of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch launch

Would there be an ‘iWatch’? What would the iPhone 6 deliver?

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Our 5 favourite iPhone 6 rumours

Will the iPhone 6 be showcased at Apple’s ‘special event’?

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How we created a Custom Slider with marks for IOS

The problem came to light when we needed to set a number of marks on a music player...

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Brightec's thoughts on WWDC 2014

On the 2-6 June Apple held their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco.

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iOS 7 Custom View Controller Transitions and Rotation

Custom iOS7 Transition
iOS 7 introduced a whole bunch of new APIs for developers to sink their teeth into but one of the standout APIs is the ability to create custom UIViewController transitions. Unfortunately it's also one of the most confusing.

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App downloads: Apple versus Google

We wanted to find out which platform has the most number of app download?

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Why build a native mobile app over an HTML5 web app?

This is a question we have been asked many times over the years and doesn’t seem to be going away.

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Upgrading to iOS7 stopped TestFlight working

Following the upgrade to iOS 7, a few of us found that we weren't able to use TestFlight to install apps on our devices.

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How to change the colour of a UITextField's placeholder text for iOS7 and still support iOS6

Working with UITextFields is generally quite easy, but how do we change colour?

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3 interesting articles on iOS7 and new iPhone devices

A few articles about iOS7 and the new iPhone we found interesting and helpful.

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Fierce battle between iOS and Android in the UK

Apple and Google are, without doubt, two of the most powerful brands competing for the loyalty of UK consumers today.

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iPhone vs Android in the UK

A recent study concluded that nearly half of smartphones sold in the UK are Android devices

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April 2017 - Which devices and versions of iOS are most popular?

Mar17 - Which devices & versions of iOS are most popular?

Feb 17 - Which devices & versions of iOS are most popular?

Overloading Swift Operators

Apple Event 2016 - The Headlines

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WWDC 2016

Turning an iPhone into an iBeacon

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tvOS Focus Engine

Apple TV Tech Talk London

Four apps maximising UX on Apple TV

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Straight out the box - iPad Pro

Apple Event - September 2015

Communicating between two devices using WebSockets

Implications of WWDC 2015

In summary - WWDC 2015

Straight out the box - Apple Watch

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Information for the App Store

IBDesignable and IBInspectable with CoreGraphics

Best practice in app tracking

Apple Spring Forward Reviewed

PreferredMaxLayoutWidth

7 difficulties of internationalisation & localisation

Objective-C code in a Swift project

One layout to rule them all

UICollectionView using horizontal and vertical scrolling with sticky rows and columns

Review of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch launch

Our 5 favourite iPhone 6 rumours

How we created a Custom Slider with marks for IOS

Brightec's thoughts on WWDC 2014

iOS 7 Custom View Controller Transitions and Rotation

App downloads: Apple versus Google

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Upgrading to iOS7 stopped TestFlight working

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