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Create Certificate for iOS Push Notification

Create Certificate for iOS Push Notification

For an iOS app, the push notification certification preparation always make me annoying. Not just because I have to prepare too many certifications, but also sometimes I did a step fail, and the certification does not work at all. But I only realize that when backend code does not work

iOS9 App Transport Security

iOS9 App Transport Security

Warning: this post is indented for temporarily resolve problem about apps, which do not use HTTPS internally for working with iOS9. Please update your app with HTTPS and remove the workaround, if you have ever applied. What the hell is App Transport Security? At WWDC 2015, Apple announced “App Transport

Using Shimmer Effect to Indicate Music Buffering in iOS

Using Shimmer Effect to Indicate Music Buffering in iOS

While developing a music app, which play your songs over the internet, you are likely to meet a normal case, if your music need to be buffered before it can be playable. You can open a random YouTube video and see the buffer indicator like this: [ So with normal music,

Alive - Another Video of Instagram

Alive - Another Video of Instagram

I quite like photography and video app, that’s why I like to browse on App Store to see any interesting everyday. Today, I found Alive. My first impression is “Wow, another Instagram”, but after using a few minutes, I found it still has much more features which I would

Beauty Me Case Study: iOS with Swift

Beauty Me Case Study: iOS with Swift

At previous post, we had talked about designing and developing an administration dash for our project. Using AngularJS with MVC pattern in mind helps us to reduce complex about management session while reusing many view and saving resource load cost. Today, we would like to talk about the mobile part,

Vectorized Assets for iOS with PDF

Vectorized Assets for iOS with PDF

As mobile operating systems continously grows up, the market is filled with more and more devices, apps with different specs, including device capabilities, screen sizes, and so on. Developing apps, with those conditions now becomes complex tasks, because developers are responsible of making their apps work with all of them.

Create a Tag Flow Layout with UICollectionView

Create a Tag Flow Layout with UICollectionView

Before we start, take a look at what we will implement: a tag flow layout. [ A flow layout, is a layout which element is placed horizontally until the row is full, then next element will be placed in start of next row. This layout is quite suitable for app which

Medium - A New Way To Read

Medium - A New Way To Read

I like to read. Yes, I have used Flipboard for a while, until I realize that I hate the flip animation with too much unnecessary animation and elements of Flipboard, I just want to read, and content is more important with me than those fancy flip effects. And you know,

Animated Splash Screen for iOS App

Animated Splash Screen for iOS App

We are preparing for a brand new app, for both Android & iOS about music. While our designer is busy with Sketch and Photoshop, we want to test some experiments for make our app more interesting, and we come to an idea, just like this: [ This a splash screen for the

Parallax Effect for iOS with Swift (Part 2)

Parallax Effect for iOS with Swift (Part 2)

In previous post, we had used only storyboard to achieve parallax effect for cover photo just like Twitter app. In this post, we are going to implement the similar effect, but for an image inside scrollview, so when we scroll, the image is scrolled but with parallax effect inside, just

Parallax Effect for iOS with Swift

Parallax Effect for iOS with Swift

For an app which has many long content, mixed with images and text, scrolling through a long and static content is boring. We can make scrolling more interesting by implement parallax effect for images inside. There are many way to create parallax. Let’s take a look at Twitter for

Beauty Me Case Study: RESTful Web Service

Beauty Me Case Study: RESTful Web Service

In previous post, we had defined how data is organized and flow. We understand that, data will be queried from MySQL server, then exposed through web-service for CMS and mobile app to use. Today we are going to define web-service tier, make sure every APIs are available for both end-users

Using Video as Background for iOS App

Using Video as Background for iOS App

You should be familiar with many login screen in mobile app, boring username field, then a password field, and some button for log user in, forgot password, etc. You can try add some icons, fancy color or animation to field with validation and social login, but you should admit that

Beauty Me Case Study: Architecture Design

Beauty Me Case Study: Architecture Design

Beside of user interface design, it’s time for us to go for architecture design. Including all data flows and transfers from mobile app to server, from CMS to backend and vice-versa. Beauty Me project will follow MVC in general, and also applies MVC onto all components including: Android app,

Beauty Me Case Study: Mockup and UI Design

Beauty Me Case Study: Mockup and UI Design

In previous post, we planned and created timeline for Beauty Me – a mobile-first application. Today, we will desribe more about how next phase was done – The mockup and User Interface design. In desktop environment, you should be familiar with something like Swing or GWT for Java, or Windows Presentation Foundation,

Beauty Me - A Case study for Mobile-first App

Beauty Me - A Case study for Mobile-first App

We are just finishing our latest project – Beauty Me, and now we want to share the concept of app, as well as flow and technology we used from begining day to release as a case study for mobile-first app. It took us about 2 months to complete the project for