Tag: Technology

#UX

Why is Handling Errors in Your App Crucial for Your App's Success?

Michał Nowak

Flutter Developer

Do you handle errors in your apps? Have you thought of all of them? Why is it essential to think about them during development? You can find answers to these questions here.

#MVP

Top 5 things you’ve been doing wrong your whole MVP - part 2

Damian Kasperski

Flutter & Android Developer

While building MVP you will face many challenges, but by avoiding those 5 mistakes you’ll increase your chances for success.

Why is Flutter the best choice for building a mobile app Minimum Viable Product?

Jakub Kostrzewski

Flutter developer

Why is Flutter the best way to deliver a mobile app MVP? Check here!

Proposing architectural changes

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

It’s not easy to introduce changes in a team that numbers more than just a few developers. You should ensure that everyone understands what is going to be changed, why and how. I’d like to guide you on how you can make this process as painless as possible.

Code Review Best Practices

Michał Nowak

Flutter Developer

A chunk of every developer's work is a code review, but are you doing it well?

Challenges with testing Phoenix LiveView with Cypress

Krzysztof Józefowicz

Backend Developer

We came to a conclusion, that number of dynamic UI elements is big enough to justify using LiveView, at least in some specific components.

#3D

A texture problem in a large Threejs scene.

Marcin Dekier

Frontend Developer

Check how easy it is to solve the problem with 4k textures in a big scene with Threejs.

Today I Learned

Leverage git to quickly explore a new project

Lukasz Kasperek

iOS developer

Choosing the right software development company to build your app

Zuzanna Demska

Marketing Specialist

In this article, you can find tips on what to consider when choosing a software development company.

People & Teamwork

#People

How to increase chances to be hired as a junior frontend developer

Tadeusz Miesiąc

Frontend Developer

Have you ever wondered why you have not been invited for a job interview? Did you send another CV and no one responded? In this article, I’m going to give you a few tips how to increase your chances to be hired as a junior frontend developer. and improve your resume.

Introduction to Reactive Programming in Unity

Tomasz Lewandowski

iOS & Flutter & Game Developer

Bringing the reactive programming world to the Unity game engine with UniRx.

Introduction to asynchronous programming in Unity

Tomasz Lewandowski

iOS & Flutter & Game Developer

Executing tasks over several update calls? Let's explore different approaches to asynchronous programming in Unity game engine.

#Maintenance

9 tips for long-term app maintenance

Amelia Kaczmarek

Business Development Representative

Maintenance is one of the critical steps of building mobile applications. Learn the best tips for long-term app maintenance and why it’s worth the effort.

E-commerce plugin in Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager

Kasia Bernad

FullStack Developer

Continuation of the complete guide how to connect google analytics with your website. In this article you will learn how to connect your website with E-commerce plugin and get access to powerful statistics.

Today I Learned

TIL: Cleaning your Git repository by removing the unused branches

Adam Siekierski

Fullstack Developer

Ever had a headache because of the number of branches you have on your repo locally? If so, take advantage of the tips from this post :)

How to implement Google Analytics via Google Tag Manager

Kasia Bernad

FullStack Developer

Complete guide how to connect google analytics with your website via Google Tag Manager. You will see step by step how you can integrate Google analytics and what you should do in your code but also in GA console and in GTM console.

GitHub CI/CD for Flutter project

Marcin Hradowicz

Flutter Developer

Explanation of a structure of CI/CD on GitHub using Github Actions. Example of CI/CD for the Flutter project.

Today I Learned

Ecto’s Repo.stream/1

Adam Siekierski

Fullstack Developer

Today I learned about Ecto’s Repo.stream/1

2 most common issues with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

Kasia Bernad

FullStack Developer

Examples of troubleshooting for Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager. You will see what common cases you may come across and how to deal with them.

#Maintenance

What is mobile application maintenance? 4 types of mobile application maintenance

Amelia Kaczmarek

Business Development Representative

Maintenance is a crucial part of ensuring security, efficiency and reliability of an application. Check if you know all types of app maintenance.

Design & UX

What is User Experience (UX) and why should it be important to you?

Zuzanna Demska

Marketing Specialist

Marek Szmyt

Product Designer

This article explains why UX is so important in the application development process.

Data Science in application development

Szymon Janowski

Data Scientist

Data Scientists with machine learning skills and a data-centric approach become critical team members in the application development process.

Why should you consider using Flutter for your next mobile project?

Jakub Żerko

Flutter Developer

When starting a project, you have to decide which programming language to choose. Here are a few benefits of Flutter development.

#Frontend

AppUnite & Strapi one-year relationship

Adam Siekierski

Fullstack Developer

Kacper Latuszewski

Backend Developer

For over a year, we've been working on the new AppUnite's website. For the main (and only) backend, we've chosen Strapi. How did it work with our frontend application? What were the advantages and what were the drawbacks of using Strapi? We’ve described it all in this article.

10 Companies you didn’t know that use Elixir

Amelia Kaczmarek

Business Development Representative

Elixir is chosen by more and more developers and businesses. Except for the obvious ones, we made a list of 10 not-so-obvious companies that use Elixir.

How to build great software products in 2021

Amelia Kaczmarek

Business Development Representative

Karol Wojtaszek

CEO

In this article we share our thoughts on what we view as the best software development practices in 2021.

Integrating FireStick Cast into Android App with Chromecast

Jakub Adamczewski

Android Developer

Mateusz Kaźmierczak

Android Developer

Learn how to integrate FireStick Cast into Android App with Chromecast - tips and hints to implement straight away.

Why choose Elixir for the development of your products?

Andrzej Wyduba

Head of Operations

If you’re unsure whether Elixir is the right choice for the development of your product, we’re here to dispel your doubts. Check out the insights from top Elixir experts.

When a product requirement is not worth implementing

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

Life is full of compromises, so is software development - this article will help you make good decisions when an unforeseen problem occurs.

People & Teamwork

5 things that will make your work experience more pleasurable and efficient

Bartłomiej Wiśniewski

Frontend Developer

What is a good working environment? Check out these 5 not so obvious things that will make your work more pleasurable and efficient.

Let the force be with Livebook

Kacper Latuszewski

Backend Developer

How about playing with Elixir Livebook using Star Wars API?

Design & UX

Why build design systems?

Marek Szmyt

Product Designer

What would you gain by following design system rules? Read the article to learn an excellent way to organize your work.

Paycheck, events, idempotency and Elixir - what do they have in common?

Damian Romanow

Head of Engineering

Still wondering what paycheck, events, idempotency and Elixir have in common? Here’s a specific business scenario, which explains it all.

What the coastline paradox has in common with software development

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

Get to know, what is the coastline paradox and how software engineers can learn from it.

Make your system more predictable by using idempotent interfaces

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

Let's analyze how a toggle button that turns activity on and off, can be designed and implemented on the server-side.

#Marketing

Can a 17-year-old work as a software developer?

Michał Nowak

Flutter Developer

I'd like to share with you my experience of working while still studying in High School.

People & Teamwork

#Marketing

How to introduce yourself to a new team

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

When you join a new team, you usually want to show that you’re a valuable person to work with. Here you'll find some personal opinion based on our developer's experience.

What’s the best solution for your app: “No code” or traditional development?

Amelia Kaczmarek

Business Development Representative

Should you give “no code” a try or rather stick to traditional development methods in terms of developing your new app or a product?

How atom keys with JSON in Ecto can break your system

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

If you use the map type in your Ecto schema, you definitely should read this article. It'll help you to avoid possible system failures.

5 tips for software engineers transitioning to the team leader role

Piotr Mądry

Software Engineer

The demand for software is growing continuously. Newly created teams need strong leadership and leaders are often chosen among software engineers. What to expect and how to prepare?

How to become Junior Elixir Developer with no Elixir knowledge?

Artur Kasza

In this article, we’ll go through a tale of how I landed in my current role, Junior Elixir Developer, having marginal Elixir knowledge - from application to present days.

Ecto.Query.preload/3 vs. Ecto.Repo.preload/3

Łukasz Pauszek

Which is better Ecto.Query.preload/3 or Ecto.Repo.preload/3? Read and find out what are the main differences.

Renaming column and table in database migrations with Elixir and PostgreSQL

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

Step by step tutorial on what to do to guarantee zero downtime deployment, while deploying a new version of our application on more than one node.

5 reasons why you should consider building a mobile app

Amelia Kaczmarek

Business Development Representative

The purpose of this article is to show you the benefits and help you decide on building a mobile app. Mobile isn’t going anywhere and businesses need to adapt.

Junior Dev's first days. From writing to releasing your first commercial code

Hubert Józwowiak

Hubert, our developer, uncovers some of the rules and steps that we, as AppUnite, focus on while building products for our clients and teaching new team members good practices.

Modular software design - 10 common mistakes

Maciej Kaszubowski

Modular software design is all about dividing functionalities into independent pieces - modules. Learn what are the most common mistakes to avoid.

Is Code Review harmful?

Maciej Kaszubowski

How does code review affect your team? Can it be harmful? This article lists some issues that can be related to code review and some ideas for improvement.

Concurrency and parallelism with Elixir and BEAM

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

Patryk from our Backend team explains the differences between concurrency and parallelism, based on Elixir and BEAM.

Become a pi-shaped developer

Maciej Kaszubowski

T-shaped skills are a compromise between being a specialist and a generalist. It's considered a great way to grow. But is it the best way?

Handling failures in background workers with Elixir and supervisors

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

Elixir allows us to write systems that can run practically forever. Does that mean that we don't have to do anything to make our systems reliable?

Decomposing domain models based on lifecycles

Maciej Kaszubowski

There is no one golden solution to decomposing. As it is one of the hardest things to do, it is essential to know the various approaches. That is exactly what you'll find in this article.

Mastering development process

Lukasz Niedzwiedz

When it comes to being a professional, it's not only about coding skills. It's about mastering the development process. Learn, how to do it!

Why shouldn't you use Elixir code in database migrations?

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

Elixir code used in migrations can cause troubles when we decide to start up our system with an empty database. But we'll help you to deal with that!

RxJava Backpressure in practice

Filip Grześkowiak

The majority of us know of its existence, but only a few worked with it. It's time to get to know one of RxJava features more, Backpressure.

How to migrate live production data

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

Even simple migrations can be dangerous and when executed incorrectly can lead to errors and downtimes. Avoid these problems with our dev team tips.

Enabling constraints in software development

Maciej Kaszubowski

You can govern or enable constraints. Here, we'd like to describe a concept of enabling constraints and how to use them in development.

Should you use database transactions for data consistency?

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

In our systems, most business actions require changes across multiple contexts. How can we keep these contexts consistent?

Top 5 advantages of Native App Development

Jakub Fingas

Marketing Manager

Let’s take a look at what true native mobile application development has to offer according to experts in mobile apps development.

Combine Framework with UIKit

Fatih Kagan Emre

iOS Developer

A view of our iOS developer, Fatih on matter of combine framework with UIKit.

Defaults, not rules. Should you use Scrum in your team?

Maciej Kaszubowski

Some use a well-known framework while others complain that following any specific process stands in opposition to being truly agile. Who is right?

The story of iOS CI at AppUnite (Part 2)

Szymon Mrozek

A continuation of our story about the Continuous Integration system that we are using at AppUnite to test and deploy our software every day.

How I changed the default structure of Elixir project to suit my preferences more

Tobiasz Małecki

Elixir Developer

Reasonable defaults can make your life easier but what reasonable means? How many benefits can the personalized default structure of Elixir project bring?

The story of iOS CI at AppUnite (Part 1)

Szymon Mrozek

Our little story about CI infrastructure that we've been working on and which is used for building iOS applications.

Things that you should know while localizing your iOS app

Lukasz Kasperek

iOS developer

In this article, Lukasz from our iOS team, shares his experience, best practices and what can go wrong with supporting multiple languages in your iOS app.

Agile Project Management: The AppUnite Approach

Maciej Ulatowski

Maciej, our PM, explains approach to Agile at AppUnite. Check this article and compare your approach to agile project management with ours.

How to test iOS apps with Combine, ReactiveSwift and RxSwift

Szymon Mrozek

In this article Szymon from our iOS team, presents ideas for testing in three different frameworks - Combine, ReactiveSwift and RxSwift.

How we spent 500 hours for writing tests and proved this to be a business value

Szymon Mrozek

Is implementation of the automated tests worth the time and most of all, what value for business does it generate? Look for the answers in this article!

Beyond Ruby on Rails

Emil Wojtaszek

AppUnite Co-founder

We reveal behind the scenes details of one of the most important decisions we faced in AppUnite and why it turned out as a huge win!

How to keep dependencies up to date

Szymon Mrozek

AppUnite team resolves the problem of updating dependencies with a simple script running automatically. Easy solution for software development teams.

Don't tell me how to test my software

Maciej Kaszubowski

Why do you write tests? Get to know the most important reasons and change your approach with an eye-opening article from AppUnite team member.

How your business can benefit from using Elixir and Phoenix

Karol Wojtaszek

CEO

Discover how Elixir can influence your company and improve the products you offer.

Events and different kinds of coupling

Maciej Kaszubowski

Piece of meaningful advice for developers on when and why you should or shouldn't use events.

How to Write a Project Brief for a Software Development Company

Andrzej Wyduba

Head of Operations

In this short article, Andrzej our Business Development Manager, shares his thoughts on how to write a great digital product brief.

Absence bot - a solution for managing absences at your company

Emil Wojtaszek

AppUnite Co-founder

AppUnite’s R&D department share an innovative and time-saving solution to managing absences.

How can your product benefit from the latest WWDC announcements?

Piotr Bernad

Team Leader

Developer’s perspective on Apple’s conference and upcoming opportunities for digital products.

The life of a Fragment in a ViewPager - pro tip for Android developers

Michał Saleniuk

Engineer, Android

Make your android app development easier with this pro tip from one of our Android development experts!

Android Quiz #2

Marcin Adamczewski

Android Developer

Welcome to the second part of the Android Quiz - the quiz for those who are interested in android software development 🎉

Don't Shoot the Developer!

Andrzej Wyduba

Head of Operations

The moment when a developer touches the keyboard is actually the last part of his job, and probably the easiest one.

Android Quiz #1

Marcin Adamczewski

Android Developer

Marcin from our Android team prepared a form with a couple of questions about Android, Kotlin and Java to test your knowledge!

The Decalogue of a Pro Media App

Marcin Adamczewski

Android Developer

Marcin, our Android dev, reveals 10 ancient commandments that will help you create a pro media application.

Welcome Aboard Flutter!

Andrzej Wyduba

Head of Operations

Learn why we chose to add Flutter, a cross platform from Google, to our Tech Stack.

Our First Journey with Flutter

Paweł Rąbel

Flutter & Android developer

Pawel, our Android developer, shares his experience with Flutter - an open source cross-platform SDK from Google that allows to create apps for iOS and Android with single codebase.

IOS Open Source Hell

Szymon Mrozek

In this article Szymon, our iOS developer, takes a look at open source problems of modern iOS applications and tries to find a simple rules of thumb for each of them.

MVVM - You're Doing it Wrong

Damian Kolasinski

In this article, I write about a slightly different approach to MVVM, one that overcomes classic implementation problems.

Open sourcing Imager - yet another image processing service

Łukasz Niemier

Release announcement of Imager - our brand new image processing proxy service. Written in Elixir, it provides easy solution to thumbnailing problem by using URL query string.

The Big Ideas

Maciej Kaszubowski

If you look at the history of Computer Science, you can see that there are few big ideas that keep emerging. Is there a lesson that we may learn from this?

Building Dependencies on iOS with Carthage

Szymon Mrozek

In this article I want to share my experience with building dependencies by using Carthage.

Kotlin Delegates in Android - Real Life Examples

Marcin Adamczewski

Android Developer

Real life example of using Kotlin delegate in Android. A tricky way to overcome final class inheritance.

Migrate from legacy FCM to FCM HTTP v1

Bartosz Górka

In this article, I will show you how easy is to migrate from Legacy Firebase Cloud Messaging to new FCM HTTP v1 service.

How to test User Interface on iOS and Android

Andrzej Wyduba

Head of Operations

In AppUnite we put emphasis not only on quality of code, but on quality of the product as well.