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What do we use smartphones for in our daily life apart from communication? - Right, the answer is for so many routine stuff that everyone feels bored when it comes to list them. However, the variety of purposes never ceases to amaze. Let’s take a look at automotive service stations, for instance. How they might refer to our smartphones? Keep reading to find it out.

React Native has recently gained a lot of traction. Those, looking to commission an application development, are attracted by the promise of  reduced development costs and a single codebase  for iOS and Android. My team has accumulated certain experience with React Native for the last couple of …

If you have recently considered developing a mobile application, you have likely heard of  React Native . Developers either love it or hate it. But here is a short guide for those are looking to make a business decision whether to use React Native or not bother. Actually, I am going to save …

In a digital era when smartphones have already become a significant part of our lives, it is quite hard to imagine a person who doesn’t use this device on a daily basis. They dominate almost every aspect of living: from regular social communications to health examinations and measures. Even if …

In 2015 Factorial Complexity team has released the set of iOS travelling applications for  National Park Service aimed to help visitors get the most of their experience. After 2 years of active use, gathered feedback and the worldwide changes in design trends, the customer decided to go with the …

Working with small dedicated teams that are easy to control is one of the most optimal solutions for your business if it is connected with the development of mobile applications. This, of course, could be an obvious and unreliable statement of a technical writer that is preparing a sponsored post, …

People we hire are our main strength and our weakness at the same time. Those who we entrust with the work that we are not capable to do ourselves can both please us with their results and let us down. By trial and error, we at Factorial Complexity invented our own recruitment criteria which we …

Photon Unity Networking (PUN) is a Unity package for multiplayer games. It provides authentication options, matchmaking and fast, reliable in-game communication through Exit Games Photon backend. In this tutorial we will use PUN for simple two player network game. Photon Unity Networking is …

Very often Tablet applications are just resized versions of Smartphone applications. But does it mean that they have the same UI needs? 1. Some key points to be considered Smartphones are used almost in all spheres of everyday life and in the majority of locations. While tablets are more …

While working on the user interface in their applications, mobile developers tend to make the same mistakes over and over again. If the development process is properly organized, these are normally fixed during the quality assurance phase. However, the mobile developers should normally avoid making …

When it comes to developing a mobile application the first question one should be asking is “Which platform to support?”. These days the answer is obvious. iOS and Android heavily dominate the market with a combined share of  more than 95% and growing . Between iOS and Android market share is …

It is commonly believed that a fixed-price model is the best way of cooperation which  gives the client absolute clarity of the project budget and timeline, insure them against the team’s fails and cheating, and saves the costs . But is it really so and are not there any hidden rocks in fixed-price …

I have recently shared my thoughts on  the UI/UX mobile trends for 2017  and today I’d like to talk about the web design trends and what will be popular in the coming 2017 year. It is hard to give such predictions but we can say that for sure about the things which are taking a back seat to the …

I was really excited when it turned out my new Android project was related to the video processing because the task was very interesting and I thought I knew some possible solutions. But in some time after starting the development, I realized Android OS did not (and does not) have instruments for …

More than  2,5 billion people on Earth have smartphones  and use them heavily every day. We spend about  4 hours a day  staring at the screen. Curious fact but each person has  three favorite apps  used most frequently. The leaders among them are Facebook, Youtube, WhatsApp, Instagram, Uber, Gmail …

We are happy to revive our blog with useful and fun information for our readers and to mark this wonderful event we decided to connect it with a present for everybody involved into mobile. This is a free UI Kit for a music app and you can do whatever you want with it: download and save on your computer in order to use in some time, have a look at it and get inspiration for your own apps or rework them partially or completely and create your next great app based on this UI kit!

Yes, there is opportunity to combine this languages in the same project. It’s great. Apple provides a tutorial how to do this magic. You can find  here . But in spite of it I would like to share my experience on real examples, because it’s not as simple as it sounds. Swift code in Objective C …

Today I want to share with you one of my pieces of code that has proved to be quite useful. Sometimes what you need is not something brilliant or especially sophisticated, but something steady and dependable, doing all that annoying work for you. Well that’s  DAAlertController . I did not …

Unfortunately, there’s no official way provided by Apple for this purpose. Let’s look at two methods for solve this problem. Method 1 Apple provides a way to specify application specific language, by updating the “AppleLanguages” key in  NSUserDefaults . For example: [[NSUserDefau…

Few days ago Apple released long-awaited SDK for Apple Watch. Device itself is scheduled to be released early next year (spring most likely). However, Apple as usually granted registered developers an early access to set of libraries and tools for developing application. It is embedded into Xcode 6.2 Beta and called WatchKit. I have put together a quick overview of SDK, describing what developers can and cannot do with Apple Watch.