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Max Smith 2019-09-06
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In this article, we compare native and hybrid app development and explain which type of app is better for achieving your goals.

If you want to make an app for both iOS and Android, you can use one of these options:

Develop a native app for each platform

Use frameworks and technologies for hybrid development

Each of these methods offers unique features, uses different programming languages, and allows you to achieve different goals.

If you don’t know whether to choose a native or hybrid app, you can find all the information you need to make your choice below.

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Max Smith 2018-02-22
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The idea of online marketplace like Wish or Flipkart is simple yet working - shop for anything out of anywhere within a few clicks on your device; no need to spend long hours in change rooms’ queues or waiting for a shop assistant to bring your size - creating a Wish-like app saves you from it all.

Here we are going to discover important points that will help you develop a shopping app like Wish; also, we will try to calculate a rough cost to make shopping app like Wish.

Wish and all the branch products included (as the application consists out of 6 apps)

Taking into account that 50% of all current smartphone users grab their device immediately after waking up [ExpressPigeon], e-commerce might very soon become the only shopping we go for.

Founded by a former Google’s software engineer Peter Szulczewski in 2010, Wish has its eyes set on becoming the brightest shopping app in the world.

Read also: how to make an app like Spotify

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Max Smith 2017-12-13
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Apparently, if I were to give a brief answer to this question of yours, I’d say - most likely you can use Firebase as a back-end for a mobile app with a large number of users. Will you benefit out of using this technology is a different question,

The pluses of Firebase include:

  • less time-consuming as it already is a ready-made solution
  • real-time solution for apps with real chats in it
  • Firebase is pretty secure - as it is owned by the Big and Powerful Google

Though, at this point there are things that you need to take into account once you get to use Firebase.

Once you choose Firebase as the primary backend stack, there are a few points you need to consider. Not the disadvantages of using firebase, just things you need to know about. With Firebase, you are free to choose the pricing plan - but the one fitting for the real time applications is a “pay as you go” one. With this plan, you pay only for the resources you consume, so the more users your app gets - the more will backend maintenance cost you.

Many people consider this to be amore of a plus - as many users on your product is fantastic, isn’t it? However, in the very beginning it is tough to monetize all of them - you need to make people love your product first. And in case with Firebase, you’ll get to spend money on all of your free users. So if you intend that thousands of people will use your product - then Firebase might be a worthless solution.

Rumor has it that Firebase also has hidden costs, when after a rapid user or usage growth you might get charged without a warning; so if you are not worried about being silently charged - then go for it.

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Max Smith 2017-10-18
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In this article we will go all the way through the making of an app like Airbnb, getting rid of potential losses and calculating the future costs.

Every product has a price tag on it, and with a cost to create an app similar to airbnb many questions might become resolved from the very beginning. For the start, a wise step to make would be an MVP-version for iPhone first, to test product’s performance and viability.

Universally-known fact - applications like Uber and Airbnb are considered to be the most progressive ways of human within-society interaction, as there are two factors they help with:

They help to build a “sharing economy” model, a system where assets or services are shared between private individuals, either free or for a certain fee.

More to this, the globalization aspect comes into play; as we live in the century of Internet, more free space and more interest to travelling and foreign cultures, it results in the rise of lodging reservation website or app development.

Regarding safety issues, an important one is an insurance you need to provide - but don’t try to hit the 10000000 dollar one Airbnb currently holds; remember that Rome was not built in a day, and Chesky together with Gebbia once started with a 50 000 $ of insurance compensation per person.

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Max Smith 2018-07-24
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SO this is something the whole tech world goes crazy about these days - the augmented and virtual reality so far. But in order to develop for it, one must consider a few handy tools and libraries to implement, in particular:

  1. Kudan SDK.
  2. Simple CV.
  3. Vuforia
  4. Wikitude SDK
  5. ARKit

Read more about Best Augmented Reality SDK.

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Max Smith 2018-02-16
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Honestly, it is a pretty hard and not a very professional move - to give the quote right after hearing the “fitness app” word combination.

There are a few classes applications for sport like Google Fit and 7 Minute Workout could be categorized into though: there can either be nutrition apps, fitness trackers, workout apps or sport-oriented social networks; however, the question still is - how to develop a fitness application like FitBit?

What features would you need to have in a simple activity-tracking mobile app?

  • login/sign up screen + social networks integration
  • User profile/Body values (e. g. gender, age, height/weight, activity level)
  • External device connection
  • Various signals (vibrations) for different push-notifications
  • How much does it cost to make a fitness app?

Of course, the cost of fitness app development may depend on the amount of time and features you would like your product to have. We will take a MVP-verion as an example of an activity tracker.

Read full article

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Max Smith 2017-11-27
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As Apple claims, Swift is a fantastic language to write code on.

Among the adjectives Swift is described with, are:fasttype-safe (in contrast, Objective-C is not)expressiveBack to Swift, and it’s new 4.0 version in particular, which updates does it bring to iOS developers worldwide?StringsString now conforms to Collection protocol thanks to SE-0163 proposal.

Remember Swift 1.x?There is no need in characters array property now as you can iterate over String directly:let string = "Hello, Mind Studios!

"for character in string {print(character)}Read more in our freshly-published article Swift 4 vs Swift 3 - Differences

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Max Smith 2017-10-05
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Could React Native RoR framework compete with Native app development?

As multi optional as our world has become now, we get to make around 3500 decisions each day, and that’s not even the peak of it.

Native app development works greatly for mobile, and is an official type of development for a specific purpose (either iOS or Android), within a specific IDE (XCode or Android Studio) and on a certain language (Kotlin/Java for Android, Swift/ Objective-C for iOS).

React native vs swift/kotlin development - cross-platform application development is a bit different to native, as in most cases it includes an open-source framework that mixes up the concepts of mobile and web development, and quite often it is written on Java Script, though a final result would eventually be a "like-native" application file.

While everything is clear with "native" platforms and languages, hybrid apps have a broader classification.

The most common-used cross-platform JS frameworks are the following:

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Max Smith 2018-04-13
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Apparently, there are many things that can go wrong, even in the perfect world. However, the harm caused could be minimized if you&and your team - if you manage to follow a few rules of a successful partnership.

There are few points that indicate you found mobile app partners and have a successful coalition with your team.

1. Your strategic visions are more or less the same.

2. You business shares are allocated rationally.

3. Clear division of responsibility areas.

Please keep investigating on our blog - How To Find an App Development Partners

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Max Smith 2018-01-29
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Mobile application development trends in 2018 will be a completely different thing - plenty of things have been invented.

There are a few trends and designs we could expect mobile development to go in 2018. Here are a few of them.

1. Internet of Things.

There are many factors that indicate that IoT-based apps will be in great demand soon - just look at how successful TADO (Intelligent AC control) is. Moreover, Statista claims the IoT global revenue to increase dramatically by 2020, so it is one of current trends in mobile applications to watch out.

2. Mobile Payments.

The term first appeared in 2015, when Android Pay, and later Apple Pay were released - products that allowed to send and receive money transfers with no credit cards involved. 

3. Same Old On Demand.

The variety of services covered by on demand economy includes everything now (cleaning, food delivery, taxes, beauty and massage services, healthcare assistance etc.) but there are many areas they haven’t turned upside down yet. On demand working space or an on demand fitness coach could might be the next on demand startups appearing.

read full article.

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Max Smith 2017-11-20
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Roughly speaking, a simple one platform-based event app could be developed within 2,5 - 3 months, and the cost would approximately be around $20 000.

An important query is which features you need to have developed in your own app or platform.

Though, there is a certain list of “must-have” features for your product to function properly.

  • Mapping feature. This would be extremely essential as not all of your users are familiar with the area the nightclub is located in. The power of GPS could be used to bring them at venues doorstep.
  • Listing and calendar. In your nightlife app there have to be events posted regularly, as your users will go looking for them. They need regular updates on the trendy parties, and, in order not lose the thought of them in the information flood, they need to have all of them scheduled.
  • Push-notifications feature. In order not to miss the lively and exciting party your users need to be notified frequently about all the changes.
  • Invite User. A good way to obtain a huge user base is by letting users invite other users and get some sweet perks for this to those who invited newbys.

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Max Smith 2017-09-28
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What does it take to make a dating app like Tinder+ what will be the cost of it? If you are intrigued about it - click on the link.

As I keep going with my “love facts start”, here is another one to contribute - did you know that 20% of all the current couples have found their perfect match on a dating website?

A few more facts that support the claim:

  • Over 3 million messages are exchanged on zoosk a day
  • 66% of users have dated someone they met online
  • 60% of female tinder members want a match, not just a hookup

Among the long line all the resources for online dating stand in, there are a few products that stand out of the crowd - and I do not cover building a gay-Tinder clone Grindr or Her (the lesby mobile dating app) they are Tinder, Badoo and Happn.

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Max Smith 2018-04-02
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The use of technology in today’s industries can not be underestimated - it is drastically changing the world we used to live in today by all means - it is in delivery, cooking, banking and even healthcare.

Medical apps help us in many ways, more specifically in:

  • Send online reports regarding the patient’s feeling and health (e. g. Diabetics’ glucose readings sent to their primary doctor)
  • Keep precise online medical records, accessible 24/7 and mobilize all the data
  • Call a practitioner or an emergency
  • Reminds and refills the drug prescription when needed
  • Lets you book a doctor appointment online - based on letting you look at doctor’s profile, where things like photos, qualifications, working experience are included
  • and many more…

 

Though healthcare apps also fail a lot, mainly due to:

  • poor usability & UX
  • lack of industry knowlegde
  • failure to comply the HIPPA rules
  • they don’t have a UVP, and an issue that could be solved with their product

 

Once you decide to make a healthcare app, you need to answer 3 main questions:

  1. WHICH problem does it solve?
  2. WHICH platforms (iOS, Android) it should be built on?
  3. How much funds do you have?

 

Read more about healthcare mobile application development here https://themindstudios.com/blog/healthcare-app-development/

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Max Smith 2018-01-04
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The Demand has always been there, growing together with all the mankind.

Quite often we get to see on demand startups failing with an immense speed. The issue lies at Uber/Lyft/on demand economy's business models. Read and discover more.

As Snyuix states “On-demand business models are powerful because they are catering to the changes in customer behavior; Millennials and Gen-C have an appetite for greater convenience, speed, and simplicity that an on-demand business model takes care of perfectly, especially when combined with an excellent app which has great user experience and API.” But is it as profitable as it seems at first sight?

 

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Max Smith 2017-11-01
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But a few years ago Sketch was delivered, and turned all the designers to take on the “vector” course in their work.

Sketch was founded 7 years ago, back in the far away 2010, by a Dutch company Bohemian Coding, yet we are so grateful to those who made this witty tool.

Since that time, and during the course of 6 years it has continued to evolve with every upcoming update and plugin, and the most recent version of 46.2 has plenty of enhancements (like Sketch Cloud file sharing, Text Alignment and Searchable Help Topics, showing relevant articles from Sketch app online documentation, along with updated Sketch symbols library).

Designs made in Sketch are the so-called “frontend-friendly”, which means all the in-design properties/entities/symbols are available on CSS.

Any navigation element (an icon, a text field, vidgets etc.)

Thanks to this feature you can now create Sketch app nested symbols & custom symbols (as in Material Design), the interface’ components e. g. icons, button symbols.

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Max Smith 2017-09-11
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SO, first of all, regarding what is needed for a making Snapchat-like app:

  • development team (depending on which platform you’ll have your app on, you either need iOS or Android developer, a back-end dev and a project manager to coordinate it all)
  • design (a UI/UX designer who could make it)
  • budget
  • time
  • original features idea
  • business analysis (business analysts are here to help you)

It’s not the wordplay or a whim to mention the originality of ideas that matters - as if there is none, then what’s the point of having your app built? It’s very unlikely for people to give up the famous and well-known Snap app, for a newly Snapchat-clone. So it is really essential that your product has something new and innovative to offer your audience.

collect
0
Max Smith 2019-09-06
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In this article, we compare native and hybrid app development and explain which type of app is better for achieving your goals.

If you want to make an app for both iOS and Android, you can use one of these options:

Develop a native app for each platform

Use frameworks and technologies for hybrid development

Each of these methods offers unique features, uses different programming languages, and allows you to achieve different goals.

If you don’t know whether to choose a native or hybrid app, you can find all the information you need to make your choice below.

Max Smith 2018-04-13
img

Apparently, there are many things that can go wrong, even in the perfect world. However, the harm caused could be minimized if you&and your team - if you manage to follow a few rules of a successful partnership.

There are few points that indicate you found mobile app partners and have a successful coalition with your team.

1. Your strategic visions are more or less the same.

2. You business shares are allocated rationally.

3. Clear division of responsibility areas.

Please keep investigating on our blog - How To Find an App Development Partners

Max Smith 2018-02-22
img

The idea of online marketplace like Wish or Flipkart is simple yet working - shop for anything out of anywhere within a few clicks on your device; no need to spend long hours in change rooms’ queues or waiting for a shop assistant to bring your size - creating a Wish-like app saves you from it all.

Here we are going to discover important points that will help you develop a shopping app like Wish; also, we will try to calculate a rough cost to make shopping app like Wish.

Wish and all the branch products included (as the application consists out of 6 apps)

Taking into account that 50% of all current smartphone users grab their device immediately after waking up [ExpressPigeon], e-commerce might very soon become the only shopping we go for.

Founded by a former Google’s software engineer Peter Szulczewski in 2010, Wish has its eyes set on becoming the brightest shopping app in the world.

Read also: how to make an app like Spotify

Max Smith 2018-01-29
img

Mobile application development trends in 2018 will be a completely different thing - plenty of things have been invented.

There are a few trends and designs we could expect mobile development to go in 2018. Here are a few of them.

1. Internet of Things.

There are many factors that indicate that IoT-based apps will be in great demand soon - just look at how successful TADO (Intelligent AC control) is. Moreover, Statista claims the IoT global revenue to increase dramatically by 2020, so it is one of current trends in mobile applications to watch out.

2. Mobile Payments.

The term first appeared in 2015, when Android Pay, and later Apple Pay were released - products that allowed to send and receive money transfers with no credit cards involved. 

3. Same Old On Demand.

The variety of services covered by on demand economy includes everything now (cleaning, food delivery, taxes, beauty and massage services, healthcare assistance etc.) but there are many areas they haven’t turned upside down yet. On demand working space or an on demand fitness coach could might be the next on demand startups appearing.

read full article.

Max Smith 2017-12-13
img

Apparently, if I were to give a brief answer to this question of yours, I’d say - most likely you can use Firebase as a back-end for a mobile app with a large number of users. Will you benefit out of using this technology is a different question,

The pluses of Firebase include:

  • less time-consuming as it already is a ready-made solution
  • real-time solution for apps with real chats in it
  • Firebase is pretty secure - as it is owned by the Big and Powerful Google

Though, at this point there are things that you need to take into account once you get to use Firebase.

Once you choose Firebase as the primary backend stack, there are a few points you need to consider. Not the disadvantages of using firebase, just things you need to know about. With Firebase, you are free to choose the pricing plan - but the one fitting for the real time applications is a “pay as you go” one. With this plan, you pay only for the resources you consume, so the more users your app gets - the more will backend maintenance cost you.

Many people consider this to be amore of a plus - as many users on your product is fantastic, isn’t it? However, in the very beginning it is tough to monetize all of them - you need to make people love your product first. And in case with Firebase, you’ll get to spend money on all of your free users. So if you intend that thousands of people will use your product - then Firebase might be a worthless solution.

Rumor has it that Firebase also has hidden costs, when after a rapid user or usage growth you might get charged without a warning; so if you are not worried about being silently charged - then go for it.

Max Smith 2017-11-20
img

Roughly speaking, a simple one platform-based event app could be developed within 2,5 - 3 months, and the cost would approximately be around $20 000.

An important query is which features you need to have developed in your own app or platform.

Though, there is a certain list of “must-have” features for your product to function properly.

  • Mapping feature. This would be extremely essential as not all of your users are familiar with the area the nightclub is located in. The power of GPS could be used to bring them at venues doorstep.
  • Listing and calendar. In your nightlife app there have to be events posted regularly, as your users will go looking for them. They need regular updates on the trendy parties, and, in order not lose the thought of them in the information flood, they need to have all of them scheduled.
  • Push-notifications feature. In order not to miss the lively and exciting party your users need to be notified frequently about all the changes.
  • Invite User. A good way to obtain a huge user base is by letting users invite other users and get some sweet perks for this to those who invited newbys.

Max Smith 2017-10-18
img

In this article we will go all the way through the making of an app like Airbnb, getting rid of potential losses and calculating the future costs.

Every product has a price tag on it, and with a cost to create an app similar to airbnb many questions might become resolved from the very beginning. For the start, a wise step to make would be an MVP-version for iPhone first, to test product’s performance and viability.

Universally-known fact - applications like Uber and Airbnb are considered to be the most progressive ways of human within-society interaction, as there are two factors they help with:

They help to build a “sharing economy” model, a system where assets or services are shared between private individuals, either free or for a certain fee.

More to this, the globalization aspect comes into play; as we live in the century of Internet, more free space and more interest to travelling and foreign cultures, it results in the rise of lodging reservation website or app development.

Regarding safety issues, an important one is an insurance you need to provide - but don’t try to hit the 10000000 dollar one Airbnb currently holds; remember that Rome was not built in a day, and Chesky together with Gebbia once started with a 50 000 $ of insurance compensation per person.

Max Smith 2017-09-28
img

What does it take to make a dating app like Tinder+ what will be the cost of it? If you are intrigued about it - click on the link.

As I keep going with my “love facts start”, here is another one to contribute - did you know that 20% of all the current couples have found their perfect match on a dating website?

A few more facts that support the claim:

  • Over 3 million messages are exchanged on zoosk a day
  • 66% of users have dated someone they met online
  • 60% of female tinder members want a match, not just a hookup

Among the long line all the resources for online dating stand in, there are a few products that stand out of the crowd - and I do not cover building a gay-Tinder clone Grindr or Her (the lesby mobile dating app) they are Tinder, Badoo and Happn.

Max Smith 2018-07-24
img

SO this is something the whole tech world goes crazy about these days - the augmented and virtual reality so far. But in order to develop for it, one must consider a few handy tools and libraries to implement, in particular:

  1. Kudan SDK.
  2. Simple CV.
  3. Vuforia
  4. Wikitude SDK
  5. ARKit

Read more about Best Augmented Reality SDK.

Max Smith 2018-04-02
img

The use of technology in today’s industries can not be underestimated - it is drastically changing the world we used to live in today by all means - it is in delivery, cooking, banking and even healthcare.

Medical apps help us in many ways, more specifically in:

  • Send online reports regarding the patient’s feeling and health (e. g. Diabetics’ glucose readings sent to their primary doctor)
  • Keep precise online medical records, accessible 24/7 and mobilize all the data
  • Call a practitioner or an emergency
  • Reminds and refills the drug prescription when needed
  • Lets you book a doctor appointment online - based on letting you look at doctor’s profile, where things like photos, qualifications, working experience are included
  • and many more…

 

Though healthcare apps also fail a lot, mainly due to:

  • poor usability & UX
  • lack of industry knowlegde
  • failure to comply the HIPPA rules
  • they don’t have a UVP, and an issue that could be solved with their product

 

Once you decide to make a healthcare app, you need to answer 3 main questions:

  1. WHICH problem does it solve?
  2. WHICH platforms (iOS, Android) it should be built on?
  3. How much funds do you have?

 

Read more about healthcare mobile application development here https://themindstudios.com/blog/healthcare-app-development/

Max Smith 2018-02-16
img

Honestly, it is a pretty hard and not a very professional move - to give the quote right after hearing the “fitness app” word combination.

There are a few classes applications for sport like Google Fit and 7 Minute Workout could be categorized into though: there can either be nutrition apps, fitness trackers, workout apps or sport-oriented social networks; however, the question still is - how to develop a fitness application like FitBit?

What features would you need to have in a simple activity-tracking mobile app?

  • login/sign up screen + social networks integration
  • User profile/Body values (e. g. gender, age, height/weight, activity level)
  • External device connection
  • Various signals (vibrations) for different push-notifications
  • How much does it cost to make a fitness app?

Of course, the cost of fitness app development may depend on the amount of time and features you would like your product to have. We will take a MVP-verion as an example of an activity tracker.

Read full article

Max Smith 2018-01-04
img

The Demand has always been there, growing together with all the mankind.

Quite often we get to see on demand startups failing with an immense speed. The issue lies at Uber/Lyft/on demand economy's business models. Read and discover more.

As Snyuix states “On-demand business models are powerful because they are catering to the changes in customer behavior; Millennials and Gen-C have an appetite for greater convenience, speed, and simplicity that an on-demand business model takes care of perfectly, especially when combined with an excellent app which has great user experience and API.” But is it as profitable as it seems at first sight?

 

Max Smith 2017-11-27
img

As Apple claims, Swift is a fantastic language to write code on.

Among the adjectives Swift is described with, are:fasttype-safe (in contrast, Objective-C is not)expressiveBack to Swift, and it’s new 4.0 version in particular, which updates does it bring to iOS developers worldwide?StringsString now conforms to Collection protocol thanks to SE-0163 proposal.

Remember Swift 1.x?There is no need in characters array property now as you can iterate over String directly:let string = "Hello, Mind Studios!

"for character in string {print(character)}Read more in our freshly-published article Swift 4 vs Swift 3 - Differences

Max Smith 2017-11-01
img

But a few years ago Sketch was delivered, and turned all the designers to take on the “vector” course in their work.

Sketch was founded 7 years ago, back in the far away 2010, by a Dutch company Bohemian Coding, yet we are so grateful to those who made this witty tool.

Since that time, and during the course of 6 years it has continued to evolve with every upcoming update and plugin, and the most recent version of 46.2 has plenty of enhancements (like Sketch Cloud file sharing, Text Alignment and Searchable Help Topics, showing relevant articles from Sketch app online documentation, along with updated Sketch symbols library).

Designs made in Sketch are the so-called “frontend-friendly”, which means all the in-design properties/entities/symbols are available on CSS.

Any navigation element (an icon, a text field, vidgets etc.)

Thanks to this feature you can now create Sketch app nested symbols & custom symbols (as in Material Design), the interface’ components e. g. icons, button symbols.

Max Smith 2017-10-05
img

Could React Native RoR framework compete with Native app development?

As multi optional as our world has become now, we get to make around 3500 decisions each day, and that’s not even the peak of it.

Native app development works greatly for mobile, and is an official type of development for a specific purpose (either iOS or Android), within a specific IDE (XCode or Android Studio) and on a certain language (Kotlin/Java for Android, Swift/ Objective-C for iOS).

React native vs swift/kotlin development - cross-platform application development is a bit different to native, as in most cases it includes an open-source framework that mixes up the concepts of mobile and web development, and quite often it is written on Java Script, though a final result would eventually be a "like-native" application file.

While everything is clear with "native" platforms and languages, hybrid apps have a broader classification.

The most common-used cross-platform JS frameworks are the following:

Max Smith 2017-09-11
img

SO, first of all, regarding what is needed for a making Snapchat-like app:

  • development team (depending on which platform you’ll have your app on, you either need iOS or Android developer, a back-end dev and a project manager to coordinate it all)
  • design (a UI/UX designer who could make it)
  • budget
  • time
  • original features idea
  • business analysis (business analysts are here to help you)

It’s not the wordplay or a whim to mention the originality of ideas that matters - as if there is none, then what’s the point of having your app built? It’s very unlikely for people to give up the famous and well-known Snap app, for a newly Snapchat-clone. So it is really essential that your product has something new and innovative to offer your audience.