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Debugging Code in Xcode - 10 Debugging Tricks for iOS developers

· 5 min read
Full Stack Developer

Debugging code written in Swift/Objective-C can be tricky sometimes, especially for someone who’s just starting to learn iOS programming. We’re listing a few techniques and tools for debugging code in Xcode, that any successful mobile app developer should be familiar with. The inspiration for this list was the work we’ve done building our beautiful iOS app templates.

Increase App Store downloads by designing better screenshots

· 5 min read
Full Stack Developer

Increase App Store downloads by designing better screenshots

Beautiful design drives more users to an app. It’s not only about the design of the app itself but also about the aesthetics of the overall App Store presentation of your app. This article contains several useful tips that will help you increase App Store downloads, by making enhancements to your screenshots.

Best Mobile App Design Tools

· 14 min read
Full Stack Developer

In today’s world, with massive production of mobile application and websites, designing and building mobile interfaces and user experiences have been a growing trend. The ability to produce prototype designs rapidly has been an intriguing topic. At Instamobile, we build beautiful React Native templates to help designers and developers create their mobile apps more quickly. Let’s take a look at the best mobile app design tools that mobile designers and developers can use to produce high-quality prototypes.

React Native Starter App

· 5 min read
Full Stack Developer

react native starter app

We launched a free React Native Starter Kit, and I thought it’d be a good idea to document the entire process of designing a react native starter app, from inception to the final product. Hopefully, this can help people looking to create a mobile app and have no idea how to start and what the product design process looks like.

If you are comparing starter kits against full app templates, use The Ultimate Guide to React Native App Templates as the main decision guide. This article is focused on the product thinking behind a starter app.

Build Your First React Native App

· 12 min read
Full Stack Developer

build react native app

Interested in learning React Native? Let’s build your first React Native app, a simple mobile app displaying a list of countries, fetched from a REST API with a network request. This React Native tutorial is aimed at introducing React Native, giving you the basis of what you need to know before building a real React Native application. After that, we proceed to helping you build your first real React Native app. By the end of this article you will build a React Native app that can run on both iOS and Android devices.

Best Resources to Learn React Native

· 6 min read
Full Stack Developer

react native platform

React Native is a framework for building cross-platform mobile apps for iOS and Android. There are lots of materials with which to learn React Native and in this article I will show the best 10 resources to learn React Native development. For each learning material I will talk about the entry behavior, time to complete, content and difficulty level.

SwiftUI Drawbacks: Why SwiftUI Is Not Ready for Production Yet - iOS Tutorial

· 7 min read
Full Stack Developer

swiftui drawbacks

It has been almost a year since SwiftUI was introduced at WWDC. We've tried SwiftUI for a few months now, and even built a premium fitness app just with SwiftUI. Unfortunately, after this adventure, we've decided, as a team, to not pursue SwiftUI apps any further. The framework is simply not ready for complex apps, and, to be honest, this should be embarrassing for Apple, given how low the quality bar was for this launch.

Conditional Statements in SwiftUI - iOS Tutorial

· 4 min read
Full Stack Developer

Conditional Statements in SwiftUI

Although it's undeniable that SwiftUI has made breakthroughs in redefining how to build an iOS app, it still has difficulties building a real application which can get quite complex. Also, while SwiftUI is still a kid – we have to accept some issues as well as use hacky solutions and hope it gets better in the next releases.

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