In the current market environment, Reactive is a niche word. It is a concept wherein elemental changes on the UI are driven by the changes in the data by binding, observing or scheduling to listen to these changes. We have always wondered what’s Reactive and have made our hands dirty with the Reactive programming in mobile. It turned out to be really interesting and we understood that it can be

Mobile apps, designed to run on smartphones like Android or iOS-based phones, are ubiquitous in today’s enterprises. Every enterprise wants to build one or needs one. However, not everyone knows what it costs, or the efforts involved in building it.

Introduction Notifications have become trendier with the new visual refresh in iOS 10. As part of a new framework, Apple has introduced new features that help us make notifications that contain images, sound and video.

Introduction to Custom Renderers Xamarin assists in delivering native Android, iOS and Windows apps with a single shared .NET codebase. However, controls look different on different platforms. Example: TextBox as shown below Xamarin.Forms exposes a complete cross-platform UI Toolkit for .NET developers. This UI Toolkit renders UI controls as per native platform design. When someone is developing

Xamarin Automatic Build Generation for Deployment Xamarin lets you deliver native Android, iOS, and Windows apps with a single shared .NET code base.

An android app in its life time goes through numerous change cycles, app upgrades with many features addition/removal. Incorporating these over a period creates chaos in your application code if it is not designed well. This is why we should use an architecture pattern. By applying architectural patterns to your mobile code base, you can significantly reduce bugs, build fragile code, making code

Developers and testers are tasked with releasing software in short cycles. This demands continuous development and testing. This also means software must be developed and tested in tandem to achieve the ideal requirement. But not all parts of the software can be developed and tested simultaneously. Some components may not be ready yet or even accessible on time to enable continuous development

Xamarin assists in delivering native Android, iOS, and Windows apps with a single shared .NET code base. Xamarin tools are available for download on Visual Studio and one can directly create Android, iOS and Windows apps from Visual Studio. Most of the common codes are written in C#; hence, one doesn't need to be well versed in Java, Objective‐ C or Swift to build apps, if they know C#. If you

How it all started? The current test automation world is undergoing a sea change. Unlike today, earlier, there was no accuracy and back then ‘test harness’ was missing due to the lack of an integrated management system in place. But, in the current trend, where new gadgets and devices are coming up every day and with users accessing your website or applications from a variety of devices, real app

There has been a rush in the number of databases on the server side with several projects kicking off every quarter to rival old databases and to innovate new features. But the real issue is, how many of these databases can actually run on mobile, tablets and wearables, because they were never designed for this environment in the first place.