An Introduction to MVP on Android

Programming for Android may be tricky due to several reasons. One of them is the poor separation of concerns. If some experienced developer is used to coding the “clean” way and now moves to Android, he may be quite confused by the relative mess of the native components…

Modern iOS app architectures

I have recently run into a few problems with our MVVM architecture, which we’ve been using for the past 2 years. They are known weak points of MVVM, namely navigation and global app state. Despite these and other shortcomings, MVVM has been growing in popularity, but other…

Kotlin: first impressions

I’m planning to constantly update and extend this post the first couple of months I’m working with Kotlin. I will write down the things that I like in Kotlin, the things I miss or don’t like and the things I’m still not sure about. These things may even change their “baskets” as…

10 důvodů, proč (ne)používat React Native | 1. část

V Ackee s novými technologiemi pracujeme každý den. Je to jedna z věcí, kterou považujeme za naší největší přednost a tak nám samozřejmě nemohl uniknout silný mediální nástup technologie React Native. Stejně tak nám bohužel neuniklo zjevné…

User interface programming on iOS at Ackee (Storyboards vs. Xib vs. code)

The creation of user interface in iOS is always a passionate topic among developers. These are divided into two groups: First are those who love creating GUI in Interface Builder, and then those who hate…

Kotlin: the “Swift” for Android?

Why not Java?

The programming world is constantly developing, so the programming languages. They tend to become old and often aren’t able to compete with modern languages that suit the needs of industry better. Java is trying quite hard with the…

PaaS Introduction to Azure and Bluemix

As I stated in my previous article we live in a time of PaaS & SaaS and since I have already described the current trend in software development, the next necessary step is deployment and running your apps. This story is focused on server side apps.