How to develop BlurImageView? Discovering Material Design gave me a chance to play with animations and image effects. While watching Chiu Ki Chan presentation—Fun with Android Shaders and Filters. I got an idea to create the focus loss effect, well known from the DSLR cameras—blurring the image with simultaneous enlarging it...
We’re very happy to announce that our application – Tatra Mountain National Park – was chosen by the internauts this years best Android app in the Education category. The crowd vote was held as a part of the Appaward contest organised by the antyweb.pl. Appaward is an annual polish app contest, divided in two parts: internauts vote, and jury vote.
With the recent release of Android Lollipop SDK, new Material Design became widely available for users and developers. Google re-designed Android layouts with a new “visual language”, that provides a consistent, elegant, and very plausible user experience. It’s achieved through ripple touch feedback, cards, view transition animations, and view's elevation API, which uses shadows to determine view's parent in depth space. Developers were also given great design guidelines for typography (Roboto at it’s best), colour Palettes, spacing, and views usability (like button usage, dialogs, or animating visual feedback) connected with good explanation of users expectation to the overall app usage experience.
Last week was really interesting for our Android team. We hosted the second meeting of Poznan Android Developer Group and participated in DevFest in Krakow.
Latest Meet Magento NYC conference was very special. Sorry, every Meet Magento event is special, this one was special for us. Starting with this event we begun delivering iBeacons technology in real world. Not a prototype anymore, real user experience and fun this time. Indoor proximity systems bring brand new user experience in many fields (events, retail, public space) and we’re proud to be part of it.
Autumn each year is extremely rich in e-business conferences around the world, but this year attending only Meet Magento series is already a challenge to the most avid traveler. So, despite the sincere desire to visit all the meetings, I had to make a difficult choice and plan a few of them.
Push messaging is one of the most important features of today's apps. It enables server-app communication, based on the broadcast system. The ability to inform the user about upcoming updates, and changes, or simply to engage them more in the app experience, is crucial for successful app development.
The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system brought to us a new, unified way to implement custom transitions between view controllers. Before iOS 7 custom transitions were possible but a little painful. Making them interactive, was even harder. Apple’s transitioning API made our life easier and here is why. A sample project can be found at the end of the article.
Just over a week ago, the Google Fit Preview SDK went available to all Android developers that own Nexus 5 or Nexus 7 2013 devices. (You can start developing right away: https://developers.google.com/fit/) Google Fit provides a single set of APIs for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps.
My adventure with Magento started 6 years ago with version 0.9. It was a long way, not easy and not always easy to find, however after years I know it was the best choice – working with top eCommerce customers, powerful system and great community are the best rewards. Mastering Magento is a continuous work, not everyone has enough patience to know all details of the framework & features.