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UIImage is the Swift approach to modeling images. In order to display an image on the screen, you’re most likely going to use UIImageView, which takes a UIImage object and presents it in the view hierarchy. To color UIImage objects there’s some extra work required. Coloring images can be very helpful when dealing with app icons, tab bar items, navigation items, etc.

Drawing directions in a React Native app usually starts with a simple map polyline. A straight polyline is enough for connecting two coordinates visually, but real turn-by-turn-looking routes need a routing service such as Google Routes API, Mapbox Directions, HERE Routing, or a backend you control.

At Instamobile, we’re building a ton of complex features to save time and energy for React Native developers across the world. One of these complex features is the chat functionality, which is a must have in almost all mobile apps nowadays. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to add a React Native Chat into any mobile app with only a few lines of code. And yes, we are talking about a fully fledged chat function, that comes integrated with backend (database & storage) and that is real-time. And it can be integrated into any React Native app with no effort!

Open Source Swift Libraries are becoming more diverse and are growing in numbers quickly, as Swift becomes more mature. In this article, we curated the best open source Swift Libraries that you can use to bootstrap your next iOS project. They will make your codebase more robust, more performant and will allow you to ship iOS projects more quickly.

When it comes to signing a mobile app and building the release version of a mobile app, we need to dive into the whole process. Sometimes it seems that coding the application is much easier than releasing the app in the Google Play Store or App Store. Especially on Flutter. Generating the Flutter Release APK for Android might seem a little tedious at first, so we are covering the process step by step in this Flutter tutorial.

Location features can make a React Native app feel useful immediately: nearby listings, delivery tracking, taxi pickup, store locators, real estate search, fitness routes, and local recommendations all depend on coordinates. They also touch privacy, battery, app store review, and cloud costs.

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.

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.

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.

As a mobile developer, design is among the top priorities of your daily job. The user interface is one of the most important aspects of a mobile app, so we thought a list of the best design resources out there would be useful for all iOS developers.

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.

There are many situations when you'd like to add a header and footer to a UICollectionView component, in Swift. Regardless whether it's a simple title or a more advanced view, UICollectionView supports headers and footers out of the box, without too much boilerplate code.