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Progressive Web Apps on iOS

August 9, 2018 in Mobile App Development

What is PWA?

A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a web app that uses present-day web capacities to convey an app-like affair to clients. These apps meet certain necessities, are conveyed to servers, open through URLs, and recorded via web crawlers.

With iOS 11.3, Apple has quietly included help for the essential arrangement of new innovations behind the possibility of “Progressive Web Apps” (PWAs). It’s an ideal opportunity to perceive how they function, what are their capacities and challenges, and what do you have to know whether you as of now have a distributed PWA.

Slack is a web app. Trello is a web app. Google Docs. Gmail. Even Twitter. Web apps are only getting better.

Pros of PWAs on iOS

With the Web Platform on iOS, you can access to Geolocation
You can access sensors (Magnetometer, Accelerometer, Gyroscope)
Camera and Audio output are available.
Speech Synthesis (with headsets connected only)
Apple Pay is accessible
Web assembly, WebRTC, WebGL as well as many other experimental features under a flag.

Limitations of Progressive Web Apps when compared with native iOS apps

The app can store offline information and documents up to 50 Mb
On the off chance that the client doesn’t utilize the app for fourteen days, iOS will free up the app’s documents.
The logo will, in any case, be there on the home screen, and when accessed, the app will be downloaded once more
No access to a few highlights, for example, Bluetooth, serial, Beacons, Touch ID, Face ID, ARKit, altimeter sensor, battery data
No access to execute code while in the background
No access to private data (contacts, foundation area) and furthermore no entrance to local social apps
No access to In-App Payments and numerous other Apple-based administrations
On iPad, no access to work with Side or Split Views offering the screen to different apps, PWAs will dependably take the entire screen
No Push Notifications, no symbol identification or Siri combination

Comparison of PWAs on iOS and Android

Android doesn’t erase the documents when you don’t utilize the app, yet it can erase the records under capacity weight. Additionally, if introduced or utilized a ton by the client the PWA can ask for Persistent Storage.

PWAs can access Bluetooth on Android and not on iOS for BLE gadgets. Android can Web Share for getting native share dialog. Android can perform speech recognition.
Android can Sync foundation Sync and Web Push Notifications and adds Web App Banner to welcome the client to introduce the app.

In iOS Clients can change the symbol’s name before introducing it. They can be arranged in a design profile, so corporate clients can get PWAs alternate ways from the organization (that is a decent one!). Safari utilizes the term WebClip for this element; anyway, it doesn’t appear to peruse the Web App Manifest.

Why should you consider a PWA?

There are a few great cross-platform solutions, but none of them has a chance as big as PWAs to become a standard for the app world. With PWA, you get a highly performative Web-mobile hybrid—adjusted to all kinds of devices, fast, and installable. It definitely is a part of the future.

How to create right emotions with colour in design?

August 7, 2018 in Branding UI/UX Designing

In design, the color goes about as a key capacity that catches the eye of the client. Color is the most straightforward perspective to recollect when come to experiencing new things for the users. The colors of the design dependably make an association with the branding of the item. Designers utilize color as an approach to convey what the item is about.

More often than not client’s buy thoughts to a great extent relies upon color. There are a few actualities that very critical when coming to color brain science.

Color is a delightful thing that arouses diverse feelings in people. We see things and separate similar items with the utilization of color. We feel colors as a thing that makes distinctive feelings when seen.

Colors delivered in the visual arrangement of the human mind. All things considered, the colors don’t exist in reality. We imagine colors with our brains, which implies colors remain subjective in nature and, not objective.

How colors affect the design?

There are numerous articles that you may ready to discover how the colors affect the design. Let’s try to understand how the color physiology has affected the design.

Blue

Blue promotes calm, safety, openness with lighter shades and reliability with darker shades.

Blue is a standout amongst the most regularly utilized colors when coming to product design. The blue color is considered to give feelings, for example, trust, safe and unwinding.

Blue’s significance changes extraordinarily relying upon the shade. All blues are all around unwinding and safe, however, the lighter shades will appear to be all the more neighborly while the darker ones appear to be more solemn. Web-based life destinations like Twitter and Facebook exploit light and medium shades, while corporate sites incline toward dull shades’ tones of quality and dependability.

Purple

Truly connected with eminence, purple holds the tone of extravagance, even to the point of wantonness. Purple promotes luxury, romance with lighter shades and mystery with darker shades.

Purples recommend sumptuousness and riches, by and large, settling on it a mainstream decision for mold and extravagance products similar to the Cadbury. Lighter shades like lavender (with pink tints) are viewed as sentimental, while darker shades appear to be more lavish and secretive.

Green

Green color for clear reasons, people discover it a color that is associated with nature, trees, and plants. More often than not associations that offer natural nourishment and refreshments utilize the green color to their application. Since this color is so normal to our eyes it catches the eye when appropriately utilized.

Green crosses over any barrier amongst warm and cool colors, however, have a tendency to be to a greater degree of pleasant color. This implies green has the same unwinding impacts of blue, yet at the same time holds a portion of the empowering characteristics of yellow.

Black

Black is a standout amongst the most wanted colors in the range. The dark color speaks to power and convention. Black is thought to be the most grounded color of the range. Dark textual styles have been there from the highly contrasting age until the point that the electronic age because of its capacity to make an appropriate feeling of control over different colors.

The most powerful color, black exists on relatively every site.

It can go up against changing attributes relying upon its supporting colors, or command every one of them if utilized as a part of excess. Its quality in the midst of impartiality settles on it the color of decision for long squares of content, yet as an essential color can give the impression of tenseness, complexity, or even underhanded.

For most sites, black is utilized to make a moment feeling of complexity and agelessness. The sentiment of tastefulness is particularly solid well when matched with white textual style and set against a moderate design.

Yellow

Yellow is one of the more adaptable colors, contingent upon the shade.

A splendid yellow is the most vivacious of the colors, without the seriousness of red. Center shades of yellow give a feeling of solace while as yet feeling animating. Darker shades (counting gold) can give the impression of times long past, and loan a quality of agelessness, insight, and interest.

White

White is the color most connected with prudence, virtue, and honesty in Western societies.

Moderate and oversimplified destinations regularly utilize it as a foundation. By drawing minimal consideration of the considerable number of colors, white is the best to accent alternate colors on the page.

As we’ve quite recently clarified, colors carry with them a ton of additional weight that occasionally goes unnoticed.

There is no universal color that is called the best color to be used in the design. We should always focus on who we are designing for. Regardless of what colors you pick, they affect the design in general — from conveying complexity or likeness, to summoning exact feelings.

Android P Beta 4 from Developer’s perspective

August 4, 2018 in Mobile App Development

Android P Beta 4 is currently accessible for Pixel gadgets and top gadget. Introduce the beta on any supported gadget for testing and development or just to attempt Android P.

Android P introduces great new features and capabilities for users and developers. Let’s take a look at what’s in for developers.

Animation

Android P has the new AnimatedImageDrawable class for drawing and showcasing GIF and WebP animated images. Its working is similar to AnimatedVectorDrawable in that RenderThread drives the animations of AnimatedImageDrawable.

An ‘AnimatedImageDrawable’ can be decoded with the new ImageDecoder.

Indoor Positioning with Wi-Fi RTT

Android P has added a platform for IEEE 802.11mc Wi-Fi protocol known by the name of Wi-Fi Round-Trip-Time (RTT). With this newly added feature you can take advantage of indoor positioning in your apps.

On Android P devices with hardware support, your apps can use the new RTT APIs to measure the distance to nearby RTT-capable Wi-Fi Access Points (APs).

Within a distance of 3 or more APs, multilateration algorithm can be used to estimate the device position. The result is typically accurate within 1 to 2 meters.

In-building navigation, fine-grained location-based services such as disambiguated voice control can be possible with this accuracy.

Display cutout support

Android P provides support for the edge-to-edge screens with display cutout for camera and speaker. With the new

‘DisplayCutout’ class you can find out the location and shape of the non-functional areas where content shouldn’t be displayed. The existence and the placement can be found with ‘getDisplayCutout()’ method.

A new window layout attribute, ‘layoutInDisplayCutoutMode’, allows your app to lay out its content around a device’s cutouts. You can set this attribute to one of the following values:

LAYOUT_IN_DISPLAY_CUTOUT_MODE_DEFAULT

LAYOUT_IN_DISPLAY_CUTOUT_MODE_SHORT_EDGES

LAYOUT_IN_DISPLAY_CUTOUT_MODE_NEVER

Multi-camera support and camera updates

Now different streams can be accessed from two or more physical cameras on devices running Android P.

Devices with dual-front or dual-back cameras, you can create interesting features like seamless zoom, bokeh, and stereo vision. The API lets you call a logical or fused camera stream that automatically switches between two or more cameras.

Android P also enables support for external USB/UVC cameras on supported devices.

Session parameters are also introduced as a new feature that helps to reduce delays during initial capture.

In Android P the multi-camera API supports monochrome cameras for devices with FULL or LIMITED capability. Android P also enables support for external USB/UVC cameras on supported devices.

ImageDecoder for drawables and bitmaps

ImageDecoder is added to Android Pto provide an innovative approach for decoding images. ImageDecoder can be used to decode an image rather than the BitmapFactory and BitmapFactory.Options APIs.

ImageDecoder lets you create a Drawable or a Bitmap from a byte buffer, a file, or a URI.

ImageDecoder has many other ways that allow you to further enhance the image. For example, you can use the ‘setPostProcessor()’ method to modify the appearance of the image, such as applying a circle mask or rounding corners

Security enhancements

A number of new security features are introduced in Android P. A unified fingerprint authentication dialog and high-assurance user confirmation of sensitive transactions.

On-device system tracing

In Android P, you can now record system traces from your device. System tracing allows you to capture timing data for each process that’s running on an Android device and to view the data in an HTML report. It is useful for identifying what each thread is doing and for viewing globally important device states.

Notifications

Android P introduces several enhancements to notifications, all of which are available to developers targeting Android P and above.

Android P enhances the messaging experience with following features:

Simplified support for conversation participants. Many other APIs, such asaddMessage(), now hold the Person class instead of a CharSequence. The Person class also supports the Builder design pattern.

Android P now displays images in Messaging Notifications on phones.

The app can retrieve the ‘EXTRA_REMOTE_INPUT_DRAFT’ sent by the system when a user inadvertently closes a messaging notification and save replies as drafts.

‘setGroupConversation()‘ can be used to purposefully identify a conversation as a group or non-group conversation.

Use ‘RemoteInput.setChoices()’ to provide an array of smart reply to the user

Difference between UI/UX Design

August 1, 2018 in UI/UX Designing

UX = Useful UI = Beautiful

A valuable item addresses an issue that isn’t as of now being met in the market. The examination procedure of a UX designer includes completing an aggressive investigation, creating personas, and after that building up a reasonable product or all the more relevant, least important item; an item that will be significant to your focused-on client specialty. This is approved through testing for the duration of the life-cycle of the item.

Once the client streams and wireframes are prototyped and tried, it’s the UI designer’s part to make them tastefully satisfying. This incorporates picking a shading plan and typography that will be both appealing and easy to utilize. In any case, colour decisions, typography, and collaborations are not founded on the designer’s close to home inclination yet rather on unmistakably verbalized reasons particular to the personas created by the UX designers. With these, UI designers actualize a visual chain of importance that will fill in as a guide to clients, telling them what to do and when to do it, keeping in mind the end goal to meet their targets.

An all-around planned pecking order will feature one fundamental target for every page making it obvious to the client where they are on the site and what they can achieve in any given minute. She will do this by utilizing traditions or examples that clients are as of now comfortable with. These examples will go about as pieces of information to the client with respect to how to get where they are going.

A designed chain of importance will feature one principle objective for each page making it obvious to the client where they are on the site and what they can achieve in any given minute. She will do this by utilizing traditions or examples that clients are as of now acquainted with. These examples will go about as pieces of information to the client with reference to how to get where they are going.

UX = Goals, UI = Emotional Connections

Individuals go to your site to do stuff., they go to your site because of an objective.

The UX side of things may take a gander at individuals like pooch sweethearts and attempt to make sense of what’s imperative to them. Would could it be that they esteem or need when searching for help with picking their next fuzzy companion? Along these lines, they get the opportunity to work to make sense of it. They make inquiries, they watch individuals, they talk with individuals, they may make models and complete a touch of guerrilla testing to check whether they can approve their business and item offers.

The identity of your interface that will evoke steadfastness in your clients. Individuals might be attracted to your site in light of its striking plan, they may stick around for some time on the off chance that it enables them to do stuff. Be that as it may, once they make an individual association, at that point they’re snared. Does your interface influence them to giggle? Does it “get” them? Is it brassy? Aaron says, “Individuals will pardon your deficiencies, take after your lead, and sing your gestures of recognition if your reward them with a positive feeling.” That’s the place the aptitude of the UI designer comes in.

UX = Products, Interfaces, And Services
UI = Interfaces

Client encounter configuration is a wide field and ending up more well-known constantly. Presently, organizations with a web nearness as well as numerous others that create items or give administrations are getting on to the benefit of understanding their clients and approving their speculations previously they build.

UI configuration is, well, just for UIs. This doesn’t mean it is restricted to the graphical UI of PCs, tablets and cell phones. We are likewise observing interfaces on numerous different items nowadays like watches, clothes washers, auto dashboards, candy machines, ticket stands and some more.

To conclude, UX configuration enables clients to achieve significant errands crosswise over stages and services. UI configuration makes convincing and stylishly satisfying interfaces that associate with people.