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An Overly Thorough Guide to Underused Android Libraries
Any experienced developer will tell you that their best code isn’t code they wrote. It’s code they took from someone else’s work. Many of the problems we encounter have already been solved—and the remedies packaged into libraries available to anyone. Why reinvent the wheel when free wheels are everywhere?
In this guide, Senior Android Engineer Gilad Haimov will take you on a quick tour of some the most powerful Android libraries out there. Robust as a hammer, faster than a drill, and more precise than any scalpel; no Android developer should leave home without these must-have tools.
Gilad Haimov
Gilad has years of experience in developing Android applications, server-side programs, and communication systems.
The Art of Stealing: How to Become a Master Designer
Instead of envying other designers’ work, aspiring designers should look at it as the key to success. Copying work is an excellent way for new designers to hone their craft and improve their skills.
Michael Abehsera
Michael is an experienced UI/UX designer whose background in marketing and data analysis helps him make well-informed design decisions.
Android 7.0 for Developers: New Features, Performance Upgrades & Other Stuff You Won’t Care About
Google formally announced Android 7.0 a few weeks ago, but as usual, you’ll have to wait for it. Thanks to the Android update model, most users won’t get their Android 7.0 over-the-air (OTA) updates for months. However, this does not mean developers can afford to ignore Android Nougat.
In this article, Toptal Technical Editor Nermin Hajdarbegovic takes a closer look at Android 7.0, outlining new features and changes. While Android 7.0 is by no means revolutionary, the introduction of a new graphics API, a new JIT compiler, and a range of UI and performance tweaks will undoubtedly unlock more potential and generate a few new possibilities.
Nermin Hajdarbegovic
As a veteran tech writer, Nermin helped create online publications covering everything from the semiconductor industry to cryptocurrency.
The 10 Most Common Mistakes iOS Developers Don't Know They're Making
Apple’s iOS is the second-largest mobile operating system in the world. It also has a very high adoption rate, with more than 85 percent of users on the latest version. These highly engaged users have high expectations: If your app has bugs, you’ll hear about it. And once the one-star reviews start rolling in, it’s hard to recover.
In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Nikita Tuk outlines the 10 most common mistakes that developers make—and how to avoid them.
Nikita Tuk
Nikita is an iOS developer/Adviser working with Objective-C and Swift.
Webpack or Browserify & Gulp: Which Is Better?
Gone are the days where front-end developers for web applications could use ad-hoc JavaScript with jQuery and such all in a single JavaScript file. Modern web applications require more effort from the developer to adopt an overall architecture and development process. Building such front-end applications relies on lots of external dependencies and modular source code, and these elements necessitate automation to save developers time and reduce the chances of mistakes.
In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Eric Grosse shows us how various combinations of the popular tools Webpack, Browserify, Gulp and Npm can benefit us by enhancing our development environment and allowing us to focus on writing the app itself.
Eric Grosse
Eric is a full-stack developer specializing in front-end work using React, Node, and HAPI. His passion is cutting-edge technology.
How to Improve ASP.NET App Performance in Web Farm With Caching
Caching is a powerful technique for increasing performance, but the whole idea behind caching works only as long as the result we cached remains valid. And here we get to the hard part of the problem: How do we determine when a cached item has become invalid and needs to be recreated?
In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Daniel Ivanov provides an ASP.NET-based solution to replace invalid cached items and assure high throughput and performance of web applications designed to handle a high load.
Daniel Ivanov
Daniel has helped startups bring products to markets for more than a decade using best-of-breed approaches to HTML/CSS, JS, Python, and C#.
Vehicle UIs of the Future Are Going to Be Amazing
The state of automotive UI design is widely criticized for being unintuitive, outdated, and unappealing. As a result, designers speculate about how those UI designs will improve in the near future.
Muwuso Mkochi
Muwuso is a senior interactive art director with more than 10 years of experience in lead digital, brand, and integrated experience design.
Everything You Need to Know About UX Sketching
UX sketching is a crucial, yet often overlooked, aspect of UX design. It’s a very efficient way of communicating design while allowing designers to iterate multiple ideas before settling on one.
Nick Vyhouski
Nick is a senior UI/UX designer with eight years of experience designing applications for the fast-paced and demanding startup world.
How Hibernate Almost Ruined My Career
Are you building the next big thing? Planning to become the next Facebook or Google? Are you at the point of making fundamental decisions that will stay with you for the entire project? There is a good chance that you will pick a robust language like Java. If so, you want to pick the best object-oriented abstraction of your flexible data model because you don’t want to deal with plain SQL. You want to support all kinds of data and ideally, support all kind of databases. If so, there’s only one right choice for you: Hibernate.
Freelance Software Engineer Grzegorz Gajos explores some possible scenarios where things can go wrong using Hibernate.
Grzegorz Gajos
Grzegorz is a software architect with an international consulting & programming background, & a co-founder for Open Tangerine software house
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