The React Native project was introduced during the first React conference in January 2015. It allows you to build native mobile applications using the same concepts from React. In this post I am going to explain the main building blocks of React Native through the example of an iOS demo application. The demo application uses …
Stripe Open Source: Behind the Scenes
ionic/cordova emulate vs. Xcode 7
After the App Store automatically updated Xcode to version 7 (without me actually wanting this for now, but hey …) running ionic emulate ios -c -l would not do much anymore: The app would launch but get stuck at the loading screen No console.log() calls would be logged Fixing it manually To fix this, update …
Chaos Kong
The people at Netflix: Several years ago we introduced a tool called Chaos Monkey. This service pseudo-randomly plucks a server from our production deployment on AWS and kills it. Building on the success of Chaos Monkey, we looked at an extreme case of infrastructure failure. We built Chaos Kong, which doesn’t just kill a server. …
Your iPhone’s lockscreen is unsafe
Videogular – The HTML5 video player for AngularJS
Note: the demo embedded below might not work due to the source files only being available over HTTP, and this site being loaded over HTTPS. In that case you can check out the pen here Videogular is a video application framework for desktop and mobile powered by AngularJS Really nice player. Works way smoother than …
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ion-drawer-vertical – A vertical slide out panel (toggle panel) for Ionic
For a current Ionic project I’m working on I needed a vertical slide out panel (toggle panel) to store in some content that may be hidden by the user. As I couldn’t immediately find such a component in Ionic itself I decided to create one myself: ion-drawer-vertical (source available on GitHub). The result is a …
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Japan’s Yakuza: Inside the syndicate
To Scale: The Solar System
Ionic: Preparing for iOS 9
iOS 9 is releasing next week, and with it comes some changes and bugs that Ionic developers need to be aware of. Even if your app was published for an earlier version of iOS, you might still need to make some fixes due to regressions released by Apple in the web browser. Some minor things, …