Le Bon Coin, a well-known service, was a perfect candidate for an App MakeOver, we’ve redesigned it few months ago. But they just launched a graphically-redesigned iOS app. We want to compare our works: what would have we done if Le Bon Coin had asked us to redesign its app?

We're back from Mobile World Congress 2017. This exhibition is one of the biggest in the mobile industry. Last year, more than 100 000 persons came to Barcelona to check the pulse of the mobile ecosystem. For us at Applidium, it is always a good opportunity to go check the most innovative players. As well as say hello to the numerous French Tech companies that are present!

Let’s continue our overview of the Android ecosystem by talking about Gradle.

Since 2010, we have been creating various mobile apps and services for clients from different industries. At some point, our long-term partners started asking us for an efficient way to replicate apps we built and run for them for other countries, subsidiaries or brands. However, those apps did not necessarily have the same look & feel or feature set.

Before reading this post, take a moment to look at your smartphone dashboard and spot your most frequently used apps. What do they have all in common? Think about it or pick a guess: turn on the Airplane mode. Fact: It turns out none of them are useful anymore. This is because each of these apps works appaired to a server.

With iOS 8, Apple made the walls between multiple devices thinner than ever. Apple introduced Continuity, a set of technologies that help your devices talk with each other. This includes being notified of your phone calls on all of your devices, sending SMS text messages from your Mac, or transferring the work you are doing to another device. The latter technology (which Apple calls Handoff) may be the most underestimated one, but we feel that it has a great potential.

In our last blog post about Core Data features in iOS 8, we have learned about NSBatchUpdateRequest. This time, we will dig into another new feature: asynchronous fetch requests.

If you ever use public transportation in Paris, you might have noticed the apparition of a slightly different Navigo pass since mid-January. This new pass stars a brand-new Philippe Starck design and first and foremost has a built-in NFC chip which is compatible with most Android phones (for the iPhone 6, the NFC API is currently exclusively reserved for Apple Pay).

Last June, Apple introduced iOS 8. And every new version of iOS comes with a bunch of new APIs. Browsing the full list of API differences between iOS 7 and iOS 8, we came across Core Data new features: batch update requests and asynchronous fetch requests. In this article we will focus on the first type of requests.

Connected objects and the Internet of Things clearly are trending topics. The world is already filled with almost 9 billions of connected devices. While fighting for shares in the smartphone industry, competitors are unveiling their connected products, seeking to claim their pioneer position in this highly valuable market.