How to select the next TextInput after pressing the “next” keyboard button
See code on Github Navigating between text fields using the keyboard is very convenient to improve the user experience in your apps. As more and more apps offer this kind of experience, it’s essential that you optimize your app...
Set up your CI and CD for React Native Part 2
Generate signed builds for your mobile project Why do we have to sign our APK/IPA files? As I’ve already mentioned in the preview part of this article, code signing is an essential step since our cellphones have to verify that...
How to build Android apps and not crash in the attempt (Part II)
In the previous post, we showed you how to set up our project. If you missed it, you can check it out here. This time we will show you how to make an API request, receive, and parse it to a java object using one of the most popular...
React Native VS Ionic: Specific cases
As technology increases, we have more and more access to a lot of alternatives for building many kinds of applications, and of course, this is the case for Native Mobile apps. We have a lot of options to choose from but, as always,...
Setup your CI and CD for React Native Part 1
What is Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery? Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are now necessary concepts to develop a mobile application. Continuous Integration allows you to make sure your application...
How to build Android apps and not crash in the attempt (Part I)
When someone looks for Android in Internet, the first thing that comes up is the Google’s Operative System. Android controlled 88% of the world smartphone market in 2016 and over 1.4 billion people are now using Android....
Top 8 Mobile App Development Tools
MagmaLabs has built a process to quickly develop high performing mobile apps. A large part of our process relies on the use of great mobile app development tools. We’re constantly looking for new mobile app development tools to increase...
Android’s View Holder Pattern
Recently, I've been in and out of an android project for several reasons, and everytime I get back to it I find a lot of things that need refactoring like ListView adapters. In these adapters android uses view recycling to avoid...