Pinterest began as a small startup website in 2010 with just a few thousand users. Since then, the visual bookmarking application has grown into a tech powerhouse with 400+ million monthly users, serving over 200 billion pins scattered across 4 billion boards and counting. No small feat for a company
For many, finding dedicated developers has never been a simple task. When your in-house talent is pushed to their limits, turning to outside specialists is the next best option when hiring developers. However, many companies still struggle to determine how they will meet their demands for new IT talent. To
The invention of smartphones and tablets has revolutionized how people go about their every day-to-day life. One study conducted by the Pew Research Center recently discovered that over 5 billion people worldwide own mobile devices. That number is expected to continue to rise sharply over the coming years. With so
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
Mobile app development is one of our core competencies here at Rootstrap, and we embrace best practices for development and delivery just as much 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 to
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.
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 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
