Questions tagged [mobile]
**Mobile application development** is the process by which application software is developed for mobile devices (usually low-power handheld or portable devices).
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Integration testing strategy for a volatile domain
Imagine following scenario:
Our team is working on a mobile project in biometrics. The team delivers a client facing SDK. Our work relies on another internal team, that is delivering algorithms in a ...
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Deciding between two design alternatives for displaying series of screens in mobile applications?
I am developing a mobile application, and one of the features is a "story" that is essentially a series of screens. The screens can be of three main templates:
A "video" template ...
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Utilising Social Logins via OAuth2 in native mobile apps
This question has been asked over and over again, but I have not yet found a satisfying answer:
How to use Social Logins (via OAuth2) to obtain access tokens for your backend if your only clients are ...
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How can I manage user data without the login feature? [closed]
I am making a .net Maui QR code business card application and the application will not have authorization features such as member login and registration.
And my app needs to be able to create business ...
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Best approach to sync data between mobile app cache and the server db? [duplicate]
I have an offline-first mobile app. The user enters data, data is saved into local SQLite database.
The server has Postgres database. I need to build a two-directional sync strategy that keeps data on ...
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Complex stateful logic in MVVM architecture
I'm building a mobile app in Flutter, and the project has several distinct layers. The top part is something better described as MVVM: dumb View layer that performs rendering and delegates actions to ...
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What is the name of the approach (practice) when several unrelated entities are returned at once in the response to a request [closed]
For example, for a mobile frontend, you need to get all the data for rendering at once. The interface is divided into blocks, in which there can be both blocks with a catalog (categories) and other ...
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Why do some app makers limit their app to certain regions?
For example, many dating apps are limited to only certain cities of the USA. Or, they launch first in only regions and then may be unlocked across the country.
Why the restriction?
Why wouldn't you ...
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Feature Flag based architecture pattern for iOS/Android applications
Am exploring options of adopting feature flag based development to deliver builds faster instead of getting tangled in release branch management rabbit hole.
As of now I am not able to find a good ...
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Should a mobile app keep an 'outdated' version of the data and refresh it from database or always fetch from database?
I'm building a mobile, in which the user is able to create,modify and delete entries in a database. There are multiple screen where some of the entries are displayed: (here are some examples, not ...
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Design a model for a user
There has been a change in the project I am working on.
Until today, there was only one type of user in the system.
From the moment you logged in, you had all the information about the user.
The new ...
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Keeping version parity between platforms
I'm in the mobile development domain and I use semantic versioning to version my releases. I keep both versions the same as long as new builds are released for both iOS and Android platforms at the ...
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How to estimate scaling up costs/resources-needed of a project? [closed]
Let's consider an entrepreneur decides to create a new company like Airbnb, Netflix, etc. The problem is about the software part. He doesn't know how long it takes to create the mobile/web app? How ...
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Is there a way to detect if the guest user on web page has opened my mobile application to enhance his user xp [closed]
I have a website and mobile applications Android & IOS, all platforms are connected to the same database, what we are trying to do is to enhance the user experience by showing him specific ...
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Is it possible to store data for an offline-first native app that syncs with a web version without a backend?
I'm working on a somewhat typical notes app that I plan to create with React Native. Since the usage involves a lot of typing, it makes sense that there should also be a web version that users could ...
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Nightly build, GitFlow and PR [closed]
My customer decided to have an automatic nightly build based on develop branch.
We usually make a feature branch (and if it is necessary we provide a release compiled manually on that branch) and when ...
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Strategy for dealing with geolocation and geocoding inaccuracies
For a mobile app, we are using the Google APIs for geolocation and geocoding. The basic use case is to find entities within a certain radius (in the range of a couple of kilometers) of each other.
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Do I have too much access to my users' personal media?
This would be a broad question - but I'm asking specific to the situation around an app that I've developed.
In short, I've written an app that allows users to persist their photos and videos to the '...
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System Design: Chat application in a distributed system context
I am currently working on a side project so I can learn new technologies and understand how the components fit together. For this project, I decided that I wanted to work on Chat Applications in the ...
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Understanding passwordless sign up for mobile apps
How does phone number based authentication work, and what are its best practices?
I've noticed there are apps with streamlined sign-up/log-in processes where only a phone number is required, simply ...
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Secure way of storing client secrets in Xamarin / Android mobile apps
What would be a secure way of storing client secrets used for authentication (webservices) in Xamarin/Android apps ?
Secure Storage, which interacts with Android Keystore, seems very useful for ...
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Mobile authentication approaches, JWTs and refresh tokens
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I'm developing togther with my dev team a mobile app in a client-server architecture, since there will be a webclient too, allowing some users (admins) to perform certain operations from the ...
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How to set up login pin system
i want to set up basic login page in xamarin.forms. There is no username/password, just a simple pin
so far i have 3 pages to do this
Sign-up Pin page
Sign-up Confirm Pin Page (re-enter pin to ...
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How do big messaging apps keep users connected
So let's take the Facebook Messenger app for example. When you send a message it instantly gets sent to the other user you are writing to.I believe they use some kind of WebSockets to send these ...
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Is it possible to use a reverse proxy authentication in a native mobile app
We have a few backend services that our frontend SPAs fetch data from. Right now, the SPAs use JS libraries to authenticate with the Auth server (Azure AD) which returns a JWT which is validated by my ...
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How do I keep users of a PWA up to date when the application is in idle / hibernate?
So I'm currently building a .Net Blazor PWA, and I was wondering how the behaviour of my application looks like when it is installed on a mobile device, and the user is done with the app for the time ...
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Is it helpful to create UML diagrams when developing a mobile app alone?
I'm thinking of developing my first mobile app and now that I have chosen the language(react native), created the wireframes and done almost all the preliminary work, I'm about to start the actual ...
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How to play sounds optimally in the browser?
I have a new site that allows you to play sounds of letters on click. Each letter produces a separate sound. I went from roughly 500kb for .wav files to around 30kb for each sound file. That's a lot ...
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Message queues alternative in mobile development
please let me know if this StackExchange isn't the place for this and I will move the question.
I'm trying to write a mobile app that will have a 'notification' aspect. I have web development ...
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iOS App Private Distribution
I have been confused about the best process for private distribution in iOS - imagine we are a company like Just Eat, where venues can sign up with us and take orders from customers via a customer app....
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Reading (GET) Facebook Ads From Ad Library and Reading (GET) Personal Ad Account Billing Data in my Android Application
I'm trying to create an android application for personal use to do the following:
Get ads from the Facebook ad library (commercial ones) not the ones with politics topics etc. and then insert them ...
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Vector graphics are smaller in file size and more scalable than raster, why vector graphics are not used more often in web and mobile app development?
As in the topic. If yes - why, if no - why? I never seen it recommended in any android/web development tutorials to use vector graphics instead of your usual PNGs and JPGs and I find it odd.
I checked ...
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Can you modify the front-end source code of a mobile app?
I get that a front-end isn't secure on the web because one could theoretically access the front-end code by opening dev tools and changing the code.
Do I also need to be careful about security for a ...
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Recommended strategy for maintaining a session when navigating from app to browser?
We have an SSO application that provides authentication for a native mobile application, as well as for a web application. There are some features that the web application has that the mobile ...
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Interconnected technique for web, mobile and desktop
I am planning to do the university project with the Desktop application + web application + mobile application, I have planned to use languages for these 3 as below:
Desktop application: Java SE
Web ...
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Best way to store Session token on mobile App
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Building a mobile App for product X which is currently hosted as a SaaS solution. The product X does not support OAuth currently, implements basic authentication and generates Session token ...
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Biometric authentication with back-end verification service process
I am working on an application where I will be using Android and iOS biometric authentication.
Coding the use of biometrics on the devices, including prompting and determining whether or not the user ...
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One Super App or Many Single-Purpose Apps
While Players like Rappi/Alibaba / Wechat have gone the super app way, i.e on single app to host many unrelated services, Ecosystems like Google, Amazon etc still have multiple single purpose ...
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Is it required for an app developer to know information security?
So I've been an indie apps developer for 2 years (I launched my first Android app at the end of 2017), and I've built few apps since then, but all of them were simple apps.
Currently I'm planning my ...
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How do you implement an app autoupdate feature from scratch?
I am trying to imagine how Google Chrome automatically updates but have some questions:
Is this against Apple's terms of service? I feel like I've seen somewhere that Chrome for MacOS isn't in the ...
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Why local database should be the only source of truth for mobile application?
Being mobile developer for quite some time (ios/android) I've learnt that local database is very rarely needed. Mobile application are mobile by definition, they usually serve only as clients to ...
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How can a website get the phone number of the device used to call it?
I'm not registered with Facebook and I've never logged in to Facebook inside the browser I use, Today I enter the site facebook.com and see my actual phone number on the sign in page with this message:...
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Offline-Login Procedure in PWA
I have kind of a unique usecase:
Phones that are used to connect to the app might be shared
Connections are very unstable (sometimes no connection for half a day)
Data should be accessible through ...
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How is fast-scroll simulated?
I've noticed on web and mobile apps, when scrolling down to the bottom of a list with thousands of entries it reaches the bottom instantly but appears to be scrolling through every entry.
How is ...
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What is done when an urgent fix for an app is needed but updates have to be approved by Apple/Google etc?
I have very little experience in this area, so sorry if I use any incorrect terminology or if this is a stupid/simplistic question in general.
But from what I understand, when a developer wants to ...
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How can I accurately estimate the minimum resources my application needs?
For an application that is starting out I do not want to over pay for servers and resources that will not be used since the budget is very limited at this point. This will be a for an iOS and Android ...
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How can I modify web content on a mobile browser?
I want to build a small extension for major browsers that modifies the HTML and CSS of certain pages. On a desktop browser, this can be accomplished easily. On mobile browsers, however, content-...
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Transaction management on mobile applications
While there are prescribed methodologies for the middle layer when it comes to transaction management like Saga pattern etc. I want to know what's the advice on handling such on a mobile application ...
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How can I webscrap images from pinterest and use them in a mobile app?
I have this idea of an app and I'm a little frustrated by how much I don't know how to proceed.
My app is basically an art recommendation app.
You start with 3 base images and for each images you ...
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Best practice for feature flagging in mobile apps while avoiding incomplete functionality?
I'm wondering how best to handle the scenario of releasing a mobile app that includes an incomplete feature behind a feature flag in one version and then the completed feature behind the flag in a ...
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