Google’s 9th I/O developer conference has officially wrapped up and we here at Vokal have compiled our impressions of the various announcements and sessions. Be sure to check back in to Vokal Labs for our Apple WWDC coverage.
Read MoreAs an Android developer, I have long been envious of XCode's ability to automatically generate rasterized images from a PDF. While there have been several attempts at replicating this behavior on Android with SVG images and the custom Android vector format, we at Vokal felt like something was still missing.
Read MoreReactive Programming has been getting a lot of attention in the Android community lately. While it has uses throughout the application stack, we're going to focus here on using it to validate forms (exciting!). This approach cuts down on ugly nested if statements and transforms all of the validation logic to just a few simple lines using the RxJava framework. More, it's robust and testable.
Read MoreHere are several important things to consider before building a product across multiple platforms.
Read MoreSince we subscribe to agile development principles here at Vokal Interactive, one maxim we try to impress upon our clients is to "ship early, and ship often." Sometimes its not always easy to get clients on board with this approach; it's easy to get into a trap of thinking that your app has to have every cool feature you thought of before or since development began, and that every feature has to be "perfect." However, such thinking can lead to roadblocks and delays, pushing an app's release date further and further away while competitors are busy building a user base.
Read MoreAPIs have users just like apps have users, with the exception that an API’s users are developers. It’s unfortunate how frequently we encounter APIs which are needlessly complex and hard to use. Documentation sometimes is so complicated that it actually makes the API harder to understand rather than easier.
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Vokal will be sponsoring the 2011 Mobile Processing Conference. The Mobile Processing Conference is a yearly conference hosted by the UIC Innovation Center in support of Chicago's creative and development communities. The 2011 conference, held from November 11-13, 2011, will focus on the Android and JavaScript modes of Processing 2.0.
Read MoreThe Charter Mobile App brings the world of Charter right to Android™ – for FREE! This app lets you do all kinds of amazing things.
Read More