Clutch Names Rootstrap Best B2B Service Provider in Uruguay

By Patrick Ward • September 11, 2020 • 0 Comments

Our team here at Rootstrap woke up to a thrilling announcement this morning! We were just awarded as one of the top b2b service providers by Clutch.co! Most successful business have opted for investment in B2B providers in recent years, which is why it is essential that you pick the

How to Test React Native Apps

By Manuela Viola • September 10, 2020 • 1 Comment

Introduction Have you ever had a bug introduced by solving another problem and didn’t realize it until weeks later? This could have been easily avoided if you had tests for your App. In a project with a tight schedule, tests are generally the first thing to be forgotten and underestimated.

How to use Lottie Animations in SwiftUI

By Pablo Malvasio • September 1, 2020 • 0 Comments

If you’re here already, there’s a 99.999% chance you know what Lottie is. For those still confused, Lottie is an awesome iOS, Android, and React Native library created by Airbnb that renders After Effects animations in real-time, allowing you to use animations as easily as you use static images. You

How to build an Activity Indicator with SwiftUI

By Pablo Malvasio • September 1, 2020 • 0 Comments

The year was 2019 (before the unimaginable arrival of COVID-19 and natural disasters), many other developers and I were at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center waiting for all the new announcements Craig, Tim and all the engineers from Apple were about to share with us. That’s when SwiftUI took

How to Create a Live Streaming Platform

By German Lopez • August 28, 2020 • 0 Comments

A few ideas and considerations for architecting a live streaming application based on our previous experience.

How to Improve Ruby on Rails Apps Searches with Elasticsearch

By Leandro Dominguez • August 17, 2020 • 0 Comments

Introduction When it comes to apps with a lot of data, some SQL queries take more time than expected, especially when we want to search text through several model attributes. This most commonly happens with e-commerce stores, but these kinds of complex queries can happen in social media apps or

The 8 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Programming Ruby

By Juan Francisco Ferrari • August 5, 2020 • 0 Comments

Choosing a Text Editor It may be a tough decision, as a programmer, to choose a text editor, since it will be your main tool to do your work, and you will use it every day in your work-life. Everybody has their favorite text editor, I have known people who

Refactoring: Improve your Code Quality

By Sebastian Herrera • August 3, 2020 • 0 Comments

If you are reading this article I can assume that you are a software developer, you have probably both heard the term “refactoring” and applied it yourself (conscious or not) several times while coding. To begin, let’s review the definition: Refactoring (noun): A change made to the internal structure of

Simulation Methods

By Mikaela Pisani • July 28, 2020 • 0 Comments

Simulation can be used for emulating situations. It is used to simulate systems to be studied. This can be applied in any kind of system, banks, supermarkets, biological systems, traffic, etc. It can also be used to generate data with certain characteristics, either to complete missing information, to generate data

Exception Tracking

By Tiziana Romani • July 23, 2020 • 0 Comments

If we want to write better and higher quality software, it is important we keep track of exceptions, crashes and errors happening in our environment, so we can deal with them. We, at Rootstrap, have created this OS exception tracking tool in order to ease the task of monitoring errors.