Duolingo came on the scene in 2011 operating as a teach and translate language learning app. It has since transformed into a $700+ million business, and become the first EdTech app to top $140 Million in annual revenue. Pretty good numbers, for a language learning app that still doesn’t charge
Category: Mobile Apps
Since Uber’s first ride request in 2010, the tech giant’s cutting edge engineering has revolutionized the rideshare industry. While today’s tech stack may be well equipped to build an app like Uber, the location-based startup was the first of its kind to put a taxi app with real-time GPS in
There are a few moments in life that feel like a lightbulb going off. Suddenly, you can see a new idea in stunning clarity – and if you’ve recently had a lightbulb moment with an app idea, you’re probably excited.
Here at Rootstrap, mobile app development is one of our core competencies and we embrace best practices for development and delivery, just as we do for backend and web applications. As Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery requires maintaining multiple backend environments (Development, QA, Staging, Production) with fully automated deployments, it also requires
As mobile developers who have worked with animations before, we know how hard it can be to implement complex animations from scratch. That’s why we decided to engineer a simple yet powerful React Native animation hooks library that can give you a head start when developing your animations for mobile
According to Android Developers: “Android architecture components are a collection of libraries that help you design robust, testable, and maintainable apps.” Android Architecture Components help solve many problems that Android developers face on a project. It helps create a clean and easy to maintain architecture such as MVVM, with the goal
The usage of mobile apps in healthcare, MedTech, and eHealth has skyrocketed in the past 5 years. According to Liquid-State, in 2018 there were over 318,000 mobile healthcare apps available for patients, and approximately 200 new healthcare apps being built each day. This number is staggering, and we can assume
Introduction At Rootstrap, and IT staff augmentation company, my first assignment was to develop a React Native application, that involved maps, chat, and following the design specifications to the letter. While doing this, one of the first things I tried was to set the family font that the application uses,
What is HelloSign? HelloSign allows you to electronically request and add legally valid signatures to any document, from new-hire agreements to loans, to NDAs. HelloSign is available in an intuitive web interface, a developer-friendly API, or as a Salesforce add-on. Ways of using HelloSign There are two ways in which
The Kotlin standard library contains several functions whose sole purpose is to execute a block of code within the context of an object. When you call such a function on an object with a lambda expression provided, it forms a temporary scope. In this scope, you can access the object