Rarely do we use proxies on our personal devices to access anything. But when you are developing an app for a client, and they want only whitelisted IPs to access their server, you will have to set up a proxy. You can set up a proxy for all network traffic or a specific set of network calls (for example, requests from within an app).
Let me walk you through the steps to configure proxy settings for your Mac or iPhone globally.
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Jetpack Compose, the much-awaited UI toolkit from Google, is finally production-ready. With the power and flexibility of the declarative UI paradigm and access to low-level animation APIs, it is about to take the Android developer experience to a whole new level.
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Voice assistants are becoming mainstream in the app world, particularly e-commerce apps. Imagine shopping by just talking to an app. That’s how easy it is going to be.
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In 2020, when a surging pandemic and safety protocols shuttered many offices, we were among the IT firms to switch entirely to remote work. We adapted to its rhythms almost instantly, logging into work like clockwork, collabing over Zoom and Meet, and diligently meeting deadlines and release dates. Access to internal systems and data was something to be ironed out. An in-house mobile application became the need of the hour. Building the iOS app was no sweat but the distribution path wasn’t so clear-cut at first.
I’ll soon explain how we sorted this out.
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This post is for anyone who’s trying to implement Public Key Info Hash SSL Pinning in iOS using TrustKit. The process is very straightforward except when you goof up by missing a tiny detail. A lot of documentation is already available on this topic. I’m just bringing the whole process under one roof.
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In the dynamic realm of Android app development, it is not uncommon for new libraries, SDKs, and architectures to rise and fall and new features to get added or removed each year. Among the few things to survive the flux, the XML-based UI toolkit is relied on by developers to build user interfaces of all kinds. It is a bit of a tedious process: UI layouts are defined in an XML file, accessed and processed inside Kotlin files.
That normal is now slowly changing. Declarative and reactive UI toolkits and frameworks are shaking things up.
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Times are changing for iOS application developers. Yes, I’m referring to Apple’s newly announced declarative User Interface (UI) framework, SwiftUI, which will make way for faster, interactive app development.
On February 25, 2019, Google and FIDO Alliance announced at the World Mobile Congress that they have added support for FIDO2 standard for Android devices running Android Nougat and above. FIDO Alliance is an open industry consortium focused on developing authentication standards. FIDO has been working to change the traditional password and OTP-based authentication with more secure open standards.
It was towards the end of 2017 that Baiskoafu, a client based in the Maldives, approached us to build a platform to stream and download multimedia content in Dhivehi, the Maldivian language. The client wanted the app to be a medium through which they could promote local talent and content across the globe. Apart from this key idea, they had a sizeable collection of audio and video content and a set of questions for us. How could they materialize this dream? What should the product look like? What features should be included? 2018 was a period of joint discovery and exciting development for Baiskoafu and QBurst.
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are still the rage, more than a year after the project was launched. As a business owner conversant with the latest digital marketing trends, I am sure you have given AMP a thought at least once during this period. If you own a blog or a news website, definitely so.
For bloggers and publishers on the WordPress platform, AMP conversion is supposedly simple. As with everything else on WordPress, there are plugins to convert WP blogs to AMP. Free ones too!
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