App developer insights

Insights and opinions from
the Adapptor app developer team.

Elliot Tikhomirov Elliot Tikhomirov

Flutter Vs React Native: A detailed comparison

If you’re developing a new app the question of the day is Flutter or React Native? The answer… is that it depends. Read our comprehensive guide to decide what is best for you and your team.

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Elliot Tikhomirov Elliot Tikhomirov

What’s next for react native in 2024?

As competition increases from other cross-platform tools like Flutter, Jetpack Compose, and .NET MAUI, there is pressure for React Native to drastically improve the developer and user experience.

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Paul McGrath Paul McGrath

Streamline your iOS builds with Bitbucket Runners

Time is invaluable in our fast-paced world. Why are you wasting it herding your builds? In this article we’ll explain how with a little setup–and a spare Mac mini–you can avoid build ceremony and focus on adding features to your iOS apps.

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Brett Adams Brett Adams

Latency 2023 Roundup

Some of us at Adapptor had the pleasure of attending Latency this year, and it was a great conference. Below we highlight the talks that caught our attention.

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Jason Crowley Jason Crowley

Let’s get native with React Native

React Native is a great framework for developing native iOS and Android apps. It provides components that wrap existing native components, allowing us to develop apps with a single code base. But what happens if you need to execute platform-specific code, and there isn’t an appropriate React Native component available? We can bridge the native code ourselves with a native module.

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Jacqui Bagshaw Jacqui Bagshaw

5 simple steps to relieve the pre-release panic

Adapptor has developed a app testing checklist to help ensure that you catch major issues before you get that dreaded 1-star review when you release a new app or an update to your mobile app.

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Uncategorized Nicholas Johnson Uncategorized Nicholas Johnson

React Native on Apple M1 Silicon without Rosetta-2

With just two Intel-based computers remaining in Apple’s stable (Mac mini and Mac Pro), your next Mac purchase will likely be powered by the M1 chip. In case you missed it, the M1 is Apple’s own CPU, and while the move to the new architecture won’t be noticed by many users, developers have some work to do. I’ll describe the steps I took to set up my dev environment for React Native to make the most of the M1’s promised power, and avoid gotchas with lingering Intel dependencies.

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Uncategorized Frazer Emms Uncategorized Frazer Emms

How To Create An Engaging App Store Product Page

With the arrival of iOS 15, Apple have introduced the ability for developers to create multiple versions of their app’s App Store product page. This is a great opportunity to review your app product page and will offer businesses the ability to test what design works best. The role of the product page is to showcase your app’s fundamental value and to drive visitors to download your app.

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