What you can do to give a developer the best chance of finding the bug, recreating it and thus, squashing it as soon as possible
Using React Native in the real world - how to build an RPM meter to measure the speed of your record player / turntable.
It’s all very well having the best idea for an app, but you’re going to need your final product to match that great idea you had at the beginning. That’s where QA comes in.
Do you subscribe to the philosophy that pull requests should be a pleasure to review? This blog explores several ways in which this can be achieved
We look at what's involved in creating and testing a Custom Hook
The state of Android Camera: Tap to Focus
Multi Schema WSDL and separate packages
React Native is a solid, tangible solution to develop an application at speed as 90-95% of the code will be shared across platforms.
There’s nothing like the perfect image to make your app shine. But what if you want your app users to actually engage and interact with an image? Maybe they want to zoom in, pan around, really get to grips with the pixels?
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.
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.
Alistair pinpoints how and where to define your user-facing strings.
How to use JAXWS to generate HTTP client code using the Gradle Kotlin DSL.
This glossary explains some common app development terms you'll come across when working with us
A simple solution to securely storing client and application secrets when using Google Cloud Platform
Using the new and improved AnimatedVectorDrawable to pause and seek your animations.
Is it just me or do the words ‘refactor’ and ‘rearchitect’ fill you with dread?
We wanted to make sharing our apps with testers easier, Nick explains how we went about it
How to implement certificate pinning in Kotlin Multiplatform using Ktor
Jonny is our latest junior developer, here’s his experience of working at Brightec so far…
A how-to guide on writing tests within Kotlin Multiplatform.
A guide to how should you structure your multiplatform project?
How we went about creating tooling to maintain high-quality code.
Rate The App - Part One: The story of creating an Android Library.
A quick guide to developing Top Shelf content for a tvOS app.
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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