6 important criteria to determine which type of database to use — Over the years, technology and data usages have evolved to the extent that we saw emerging new needs and requirements for database management systems. Data storage, data access and data management nowadays require more and more advanced, flexible and adapted tools depending on how the data is being used, but…

7 steps to Localize your iOS Apps — In this article, you’ll learn how to prepare your App to support multiple languages, including resources translation, regional numeric formats, regional calendar support, and much more. How to Localize your iOS App? Localizing your App is not just adding support of translation. It includes adapting your App Interface to support language and regional specificities. That includes…

New features unveiled at Apple WWDC 2020 Keynote — Like every year in June, Apple organize the WWDC, a series of conferences around development and engineering for iOS, watchOS, tvOS & macOS, that unveils some of the most exciting innovations of the year, and drive App Development, Innovation & Technology to a whole new level for years to come. …

5 steps to create animated images with UIImage and UIImageView — UIKit offers a great builtin feature to display animated images in a few lines of code. It allows to create animations for a lot of different use cases, from loading animations, to glowing items, rotating items, and much more. Here are 5 steps to create and add your own image-based…

5 ways to create beautiful shadows for your apps — Thanks to CoreAnimation and CALayer, we can easily apply to any UIView objects a custom shadow effect, through its layer property. In this article we’ll see how to create 5 well known types of shadows: Drop Shadows Basic Contact Shadows Contact Shadows with Depth Flat Contact Shadows Curved Shadows But…

5 steps to create beautiful gradients for your apps — With CoreAnimation and CAGradientLayer, iOS makes it easy to create custom gradients of any style. It is possible to create linear, conic and radial gradients, and to customize as you want its colors and orientation. It even supports animating gradient changes for smooth and colourful apps. CAGradientLayer is a subclass…

8 principles of Green IT applied to App Development — With climate change and global warming among others environment challenges in the 21st century, Green IT is becoming a more and more important approach. Here are 8 Core Principles to make your Apps greener. But first, what’s Green IT? Also called ICT sustainability, Green IT is the study and practice of environmentally sustainable computing and…

7 steps to add a map with geolocation to your app — Apple offers to developers tools to integrate Geolocation and Map features to their Apps with MapKit and CoreLocation. Initially based on Google Maps service, MapKit now integrates Maps from Apple Maps service. Here are 7 steps to add a Map to your App and integrate a real-time Geolocation feature. …

4 steps to customize your App Icon — Apple introduced in iOS 10.3, a new feature that make possible for developers to offer App Icon customization to their users with predefined additional icons. Here are the 4 steps to add this cool feature to your App. Let’s get started. Step 1: Design your App Icons Design your alternative App Icons and export them in…