Best practices

People have high expectations for their mobile devices - they want convenience, speed, and efficiency. Unfortunately, many apps fail to deliver a positive user experience due to poor design that disregards established best [...]

Humans understand images and pictures much faster than words. It enables your audience to understand subjects at similar speed and creates more cohesion in the group you are targeting. That is a key [...]

API governance is about making good APIs into great APIs that are delightful and productive to publish and consume. This talk will show you how to choose appropriate standards, a humane and manageable [...]

The 5 SOLID principles - popularised by "Uncle" Bob Martin in some of his highly influential books on Object Orientated Software development - are rarely cited directly but they are nevertheless at the [...]

You've launched v1.0, now what? It's time to continually improve and adapt your product! A/B testing is a powerful tool for developers to optimize their products and quickly test out changes to their [...]

At ioki GmbH, we complement existing public transport with a demand-responsive transport (DRT) system. We equip our customers with the platform to provide on-demand transport services, including consulting, transport APIs, mobility intelligence [...]

Companies want to have consistent products, yet they still divide up their teams into each platform. Removing these silos between developers can result in a more engaged team, a more consistent product, and [...]

Are you suffering from traffic jam fatigue? Are you distressed by the mere idea of a fixed, open-plan office? Many developers are eschewing the traditional office in favour of remote work, including me. [...]

Developers love writing features--features are what your users see and enjoy. Security seems like an annoying afterthought not worth investing in. But ignore security at your peril--once a threat appears it is too [...]

If your app became a worldwide sensation tomorrow, would you be ready? In this talk, we'll discuss the many ways in which scaling can go wrong. Then we'll work through how to architect [...]

As a global market leader with over 50+ programs and 10+ million users across 3 continents, you have to deal with customer requirements on a global scale. During this track, we will explain [...]

We as Mobile Competence Center of the Dutch Tax and Customs Office already make mobile apps for 10 years for the Dutch Tax and Customs office but also for other government organisations. We [...]

As a product owner, manager or designer you are supposed to understand what the business needs. But once you got that covered, you need to ork with software developers to create the product. [...]

iOS and Android apps these days often have a non-negligible volume of code, an architecture that is constantly in motion and thereby a growing complexity.When working with such large code bases, the process [...]

Why should developer experience be one of the cornerstones of your architecture design? How to evaluate problem areas you see in day to day development to assess whether they could be solved at [...]

Releasing an app or a new feature can be a stressful process, especially when you need to account for different screen sizes, different network quality, different hardware, etc. Now imagine having to monitor [...]

Many companies are coming to realize the many benefits that design systems bring. A good design system (and its accompanying set of engineered components) can improve design quality and consistency and provide significant [...]

Do you ever think about accessibility? Is it an integral part of your design or development process? It better be. For more than one reason. And probably not the ones you are thinking [...]

There are moments in the work of any team when you need to become bolder, experiment more, and think out of the box. Yet it usually does not mean you can postpone your [...]

Nowadays, the mobile world has started to see larger adoption of the declarative style to build UI as opposed to the (not so) old imperative style. This pattern is borrowed from the web [...]

With agency work you quickly think of creative solutions that must be valuable and also have to look great. However, to actually make cool stuff you need a solid foundation with a solid [...]

Jordi is an indie developer building products for Apple platforms. He has launched more than 20 apps and side projects over the last two years, seven of which have been featured on the [...]

Subscriptions are a growing revenue model for apps and revenue from non-gaming apps from subscriptions is estimated to be exceeding $120 billion. To get the flywheel for subscription apps up and running, there [...]

Ever had to build app features that varied by country/region or language? Firebase can help with that. In this talk, we'll cover the different tools like Analytics, Remote Config and Cloud Messaging that [...]

Git is a version control system that's widely used and often misunderstood. Is it possible to really understand how it works, and maybe, just maybe, enjoy using it? It's my goal in this [...]

Take everything we’ve learned about continuous integration and rolling back updates on Web services and throw it in the bin. In today's mobile release landscape we are hamstrung by many variables we don’t [...]

Good bye code review Code review is a good method to maintain a high code quality. However, there are some concerns that are introduced when this method is used too often. For example, [...]

How do you convince 1.5 million to switch to an app when it is not even finished? We decided to rebuild our iOS and Android apps from scratch and put them in the [...]

Writing code is a combination of creativity and logic. Every developer wants to make sure their work is feature-perfect, bug-free, and provides a delightful experience to the end user. But how do they [...]

Since 2015 it's possible to develop your own apps for the Apple TV, that uses tvOS as operating system. The proces of developing apps for tvOS is similar to iOS, but there are [...]

Parkmobile is the leading parking solution in Netherlands, and things got bigger after BMW Group and Daimler AG's agreement to combine their mobility services worldwide. Now operating in 11 countries and more than [...]

With this talk we want to inspire other developers to use machine learning in their apps. In the past months we had to build an image recognition feature in the iOS and Android [...]

Notifications can be a double edged-sword: they can bring users back into your app, or if too frequent, cause them to delete your app forever.. We often use notifications to send our users [...]

AWW, talks about best practices to enable scaling for android applications using artifactories with ->multi-modular approach ->faster build times ->proportioned abstraction ->versioning of internal libraries -> easy open source mechanism. This talk will [...]

Within projects you often don’t have the time to write tests – or at least that’s what you think. Refactoring turns out to be hard as you can’t validate your code, and your [...]

How do you convince 1.5 million to switch to an app when it is not even finished? We decided to rebuild our iOS and Android apps from scratch and put them in the [...]

How would you like 2 extra hours of your time back every week? All mobile app developers face similar workflows as they work to upload an app to the App & Play Store. [...]

Dependency injection has been introduced as one of the modern best practices in WWDC 2016. The pattern significantly improves modularization of components for flexibility, maintainability and testability. However still only a few articles [...]

Embark in a journey with some Sci-Fi characters to discover how the Mixins & Traits pattern can help you better design your Swift code, avoid multiple-inheritance problems, and propose a protocol-oriented, Crusty-approved™ alternative [...]

Whilst crafting products, it's common for developers to find difficult to ship products and fast whilst also creating a codebase that allows you to easily do so. Whilst at the beginning of a [...]

You have a really cool and impactful project, but as soon as your codebase gets bigger, and more and more contributors come into play, things can become challenging in regards to aspects like: [...]

We’ve all been there: the specifications are created, you start building the app and eventually it turns out you’ve missed some important scenarios. ATDD/Specification by Example might have saved you to get some [...]

Isaac Newton, the father of modern software engineering, called it "Standing on the shoulders of giants". Modern development is exciting as it gets easier and easier, partly because of the wealth of resources [...]

Sketching is a crucial skill that spans all job titles. It helps with brainstorming ideas, iterating through concepts, and communicating our ideas to others. Whether working individually or in a group, our ability [...]

This session was presented at mdevcon 2016. Marin about his session: "I am a developer. You are a developer. We are all a little bit too much developers. My journey through 2015 took [...]