App Zombies: Feeding the iOS Deadlock

Hard things are hard

Prepare yourself. This is one of the biggest horrors of Motiv app engineers, the bane of our existence:

Reducing time to release: minimizing the manual Test Cycle

Testing is a very important part of the Software Development Lifecycle. There are a lot of basic guidelines on how to organize the testing cycle, but it is usually up to the team to develop the most efficient testing strategy and…

Introducing PMVP, a Reactive Mobile Application Design Pattern

I know what you’re thinking. Another design pattern?! Your company has been using Pattern XYZ since they started building mobile apps. It has worked just fine so far, except all those bugs along the way. Why take the time…

Effective Unit Tests for Time Travel

At Motiv, we strive to do things others have deemed impossible. We’ve done some amazing work to cram a lot of sophisticated sensor equipment and processing capability into a ring. Motiv Ring does imbue the wearer with special powers, but not the time travelling…

Book review: “Measure What Matters”

Some light vacation reading

Every time I take more than a few days of vacation, I bring at least one book for professional development. (And try to finish reading it before I binge on sci-fi and beaches.) This time, I thought I’d share my…

Using Natural Language Processing Techniques to Identify iOS App Eviction

Nerdiness: 5/5

Topics: iOS, Mobile Analytics, SQL, NLP, n-grams

Apps running in the background on iOS are subject to a set of rules, defined by Apple…