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Firebase App Distribution vs Testflight

Perhaps the most important part of software development is acquiring feedback from users. There are multiple efficient ways to do this for mobile app development. Two of the most prevalent are Firebase App Distribution and Testflight. Here are the pros and cons of each and what we use them for.

Build a Mobile App from Scratch

I’ve been building mobile apps professionally for two years now, however I’ve only recently built an iOS app from scratch as a side project. This blog post is a summary of what I’ve learned and resources I used, I hope it will help or inspire you to get started on your own app.

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Mapping, Filtering and Reducing | Swift Basics

These are some of the common ways of working with arrays.

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Enums | Swift Basics

A standard feature of most programming languages is enumerations, allowing you to define a group of related items.

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Control Flow Statements - If/Guard | Swift Basics

There are many control flow statements in Swift, far too many to cover in 1 post. Here we'll just briefly look at the if and guard statements.

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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
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
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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increasing conversion rates
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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In Depth 2018
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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Coding Ideas Featured
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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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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