What we’re building In my previous post I showed how to upload videos to Firebase Cloud Storage using client side encoding. This approach puts the encoding burden on the client, but can save server transcoding costs. This time I’ll show how to use server side encoding instead, combining Firebase Cloud Storage, Firebase Cloud…

What we’re building This is a quick tutorial on how to design a login screen with a background video file, which I recently added to my app WaveSpy ( iOS, Android). Here’s what the screen will look like:

What we’re building We’ll see how to build a flutter app for iOS/Android that allows users to view and share videos. In my previous post I showed how to do this with Publitio as our video storage API. In this tutorial we’ll use Firebase Cloud Storage to host the videos instead. …

What we’re building We’ll see how to build a cross-platform mobile app that allows users to upload and share videos.

What we’re building We’ll build a cross-platform mobile app for taking photos and uploading to firebase. In Part 1, we saw how to take a picture and save it to Firebase Cloud Storage. …

What we’re building We’ll build a cross-platform mobile app for taking photos and uploading to firebase. In Part 1, we’ll take a picture and save it to Firebase Cloud Storage, and then show it in our app. In Part 2, we’ll offload the uploading work, and use the blueimp library to generate…

Problem When working on a Cordova Hybrid app (a cordova app wrapped in a thin layer of native UI) that uses Ionic Web View plugin as the WebView, there was a requirement from the client to have a native button that would load a local testing html file in the main…

When working with a relatively new framework like svelte you come across issues that more “battle tested” frameworks have solved already. One such issue is transpiling your code to work on older browsers. This is meaningful especially for a cordova app, because it runs in a system WebView, which version…

TL;DR For example, for setting minSdkVersion to 24, in config.xml add in the Android platform section: Make sure to remove and re-add the platform or it won’t work! cordova platform rm android cordova platform add android For considerations, and a way to test that it works, read on. What is minSdkVersion minSdkVersion is a…