April 19, 2016 - In part 1 of this tutorial we started building our iOS app from scratch. We started out by setting up a blank React Native project. Then we pulled data from the Unsplash.it API. Because downloading data takes time, we built a loading screen. In the process we went over positioning UI elements with flexbox and styling them using CSS-like properties. Towards the end of part 1 we downloaded... Read More

March 10, 2014 - This article is the last in a series of articles covering four ways to develop a mobile application. In previous articles, we covered how to build a tip calculator in native iOS, native Android and PhoneGap. In this article, we’ll look at another cross-platform development tool, Appcelerator Titanium. PhoneGap enabled us to build a tip calculator app quickly and have it run on both the... Read More

February 11, 2014 - This is the third installment in a series covering four ways to develop a mobile application. In previous articles, we examined how to build a native iOS and native Android tip calculator. In this article, we’ll create a multi-platform solution using PhoneGap. Adobe’s PhoneGap platform enables a developer to create an app that runs on a variety of mobile devices. The developer... Read More

January 10, 2014 - This article is the second in a series of four articles covering four ways to develop mobile applications. The last article covered how to accomplish this using native iOS development tools. In this article, we’ll look at how to build the same sort of application using native Android tools. We’ve been building a simple tip calculator. As with the iOS application, this one contains two... Read More

November 22, 2013 - The mobile application development landscape is filled with many ways to build a mobile app. Among the most popular are: native iOS, native Android, PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium. This article marks the start of a series of four articles covering the technologies above. The series will provide an overview of how to build a simple mobile application using each of these four... Read More

June 18, 2012 - Our brand new Smashing Books #3 and #3⅓ have been released last month and we're sincerely grateful for the tremendous feedback, reviews and photos submitted by our truly smashing readers across the world. We appreciate your time and your interest, and thank you for your support and love. Today we are happy to present a yet another sample chapter from the book. In his chapter, Aral Balkan... Read More