From cloud computing to Javascript, from micro services to repeatable environments, from Android and HTML 5 to Big Data and concurrent programming, Chariot’s engineers are keeping watch. Here you’ll find a list of technologies to pay attention to in 2013.
The main focus of the Pivotal Initiative, which will involve more than 1,400 employees from both companies, will be cloud-based big-data software.
Phonegap applications can be extended with plugins to add additional functionality. Historically, installing plugins meant copying a bunch of files into the correct places in your project. Andrew Lunny wrote the Cordova Plugin Specification and pluginstall. Pluginstall is a tool that automates the installation of plugins which conform to the plugin specification. In addition to demonstrating pluginstall, we’ll also use the PhoneGap create script to make a new project. The cordova build scripts will be used for compiling and installing…
Now that we understand the implications and challenges of embarking on an Android project, let’s discuss how to find the right firm or developer for the job! You are ultimately responsible for the application – even if you go the outsourcing route. Things happen, disagreements happen, and turn over happens. The likelihood is high that you will need to maintain the application at some point in its lifecycle. The better the code, the easier the maintenance will be. There is…
So you’ve removed letterboxing from your iPhone 5 app by adding a Default-568h@2x.png launch image. And there was much rejoicing. Except now all of your layouts are messed up, and you’re supposed to push an app update through to the store tomorrow. So you delete the Default-568h@2x.png launch image and…nothing. Your app still seems to be running in full-screen mode. What’s the deal? It seems to be a bug, but there is a workaround. Here are the steps that I went…
If you’re reading this, you likely have an iPhone/iPad (iOS) application and are interested in expanding to the Android platform. You’ve probably already asked the hard questions to define what you want, why you want it, and how it fits into your roadmap. This article will help your business understand the impact of the Android effort. Android != iOS This should be obvious, but too often business think “I have an iOS app, how different can it be?” The challenges…
The following is an article written by Don Coleman, Director of Mobile Development, which was originally published in the July issue of NJ Tech News. About half of U.S. businesses will be in the mobile market by the end of 2012, according to a recent survey by Robert Half Technology (“Mad for Mobile.” New Jersey TechNews, April 2012). Nearly a quarter of the CIOs surveyed said they planned to develop a mobile application for the first time this year. The…
Are you interested in adding Robolectric to your development process? Here’s a quick introduction to the most common types of test cases and some best practices to consider when deciding your testing strategy. I’ve created two example apps for your reference. The first is a glorified Hello World and the other is a simple animation app. If you are unfamiliar with Robolectric, I’d start with my introductory blog that details how to integrate IntelliJ, Robolectric, and Maven into your project….
Unit testing is a best practice, but has been particularly difficult in Android. One library that makes this process much simpler is Robolectric. Integration into your project can be tricky and most methods start with maven and create an Android project from scratch. I’m a huge fan of living in IDE-land as much as possible, so this approach minimizes command line work and manual project configuration. This tutorial will walk you through using IntelliJ to generate the project and maven…
Introduction Cocoapods (http://cocoapods.org/) is a dependency management framework for XCode. It allows you to declaratively define project dependencies and have them included in the build of your project. It’s like Apache Maven or Ruby Gems for XCode. There are many tutorials on getting started with Cocoapods, so in this blog post I will present a simple case where we have a project that depends upon two internally developed projects or private libraries. We will start by creating two projects, each…
