While developing an app for the Google Assistant, most of the time you’re focusing on a good conversation flow. Having a good conversation flow, allows your users to use your app without any visual feedback needed. Last year, Google started bringing the Google Nest Hub to the market. The Google Read more…
Using UIKitForMac, it is finally possible to bring your existing iPad apps to the Mac. When making your app available on macOS, you can target a new platform with more than 100 million active installs. The reason iPad apps can now run on the Mac, is that Apple added support Read more…
Every year, Apple is organizing the WWDC for developers. Since 2017, the conference is held in San Jose, California. I’ve been to San Jose for three years now and during the conference last year I noticed that not everybody was aware of all the activities that are organized next to Read more…
Accessibility is an important topic when developing a mobile app that should be available for everyone. Research from The World Bank shows that one billion people around the world experience some form of disability. That is 15% of the world’s population! When developing an app, it is important to think Read more…
Swift Package Manager is available since 2016 but wasn’t that powerful yet. In September, a new version of Swift Package Manager will be released together with Xcode 11. This new version will finally allow you to replace CocoaPods. Using Swift Package Manager, it is possible to manage third-party libraries as Read more…
Apple changed multiple UI styles in iOS 13. One of them is the new way to present a detail view controller. The new presentation style will be enabled by default in iOS 13 and provides some new interactions. UI improvements The new presentation style can be helpful for your users, Read more…
During Firebase Developer Summit 2018 in Prague, Firebase introduced Audiences. With this functionality, you’re able to create groups of users who meet the same requirements and allows you to target them. For example, if you have an app about recipes, and you measure which recipe categories the user is reading, Read more…
Sign In with Apple is a new service, created by Apple, to allow users to use a secure login which won’t take off their privacy. Sign In with Apple is available for iOS 13, tvOS 13, watchOS 6 and macOS Catalina. Besides that, the service is also available for Javascript Read more…
Building an app with a smooth design and a great user experience is important, but there may be some other points where a developer should focus on during the development of an app. One of them, is choosing an architecture, which will improve the maintainability of the code. Choosing for Read more…
Last week I attended the first meetup from the Voice Assistant Technology NL group. It was a great meetup, where I got some new inspiration about communication with voice assistants. The focus of both talks was based on communication between your users and the assistant. The communication between your users Read more…