When it comes to mobile user experience, the field of psychology plays an important role by giving us relevant information about how we could design our mobile apps better, in order to create more value for our users. In this blog post, we list a number of mobile UX best practices that are extrapolated from research about the brain, the memory, motivation and visual system. By using some fundamental psychological principles, we can design mobile apps that are compatible with how people think and behave.

Worldwide, 60% of all the websites are built with WordPress. Clearly, WordPress is the most popular content management system. This makes it a good fit for the backend systems of native mobile apps, especially if you already have a WordPress website and you'd like to deliver a native experience to your users, by converting it into a native app.

When was the last time you thought about what you want out of your career? Did you ever think about what skills do you want to improve on and what will those skills help you achieve? What goals are you shooting for and what do you do to get there? Usually, most developers don't set concrete individual goals for themselves. They wander from job to job, adopting whatever goals their boss or tech lead hands them. This blog entry articulates why is it important for a software engineer to set individual goals and how to tackle planning them.

We're currently working on an iOS template that lets you create an iPhone app for your WordPress blog in a matter of minutes. While implementing this, we had to come up with a mechanism that allows users to share content to Facebook and Twitter. This is an important functionality for a blogger since everyone wants their content to be easily spread around the Internet. That's when we discovered SLComposeViewController.

In this blog post, we'll be focusing on the main architectural components of our news reader iOS app. We've discussed the most important features of a news reading mobile app as well as the best design practices in the first part of this series. This represents practical advice, which we learned from working on our premium News Reader iOS App template.

As we're preparing to launch a new iOS app template for news reading, we had to come up with a scalable architecture for a news reader iOS app. Since we want our fully-coded template to be generic enough, in order to accommodate as many use cases as possible, we had to design our Swift code accordingly. Since many iOS apps can be designed in a similar manner, we thought our findings might be useful to other iOS developers who are interested in using the appropriate design patterns in their implementation.

While working on a brand new iOS app template for WordPress sites, we encountered the problem of writing an RSS Feed Parser in Swift. It turns out there's a straightforward approach to parsing a WordPress RSS Feed in Swift 3, so we thought to share this on our blog, hoping this will come in handy for a Swift developer working on a similar feature.

By introducing Auto Layout, Apple made a lot of progress in their attempt to help iOS developers in building their iOS app's user interfaces. The Interface Builder got a lot better, the Auto Layout was integrated into it, and more recently UIStackViews are gaining a lot of traction and popularity. Having many different approaches of laying out views with Auto Layout, makes it necessary to decide upfront, on a consistent pattern to be followed when building your iOS app.

Mobile is not the future anymore, it's the present. 65% of the people access the Internet at least as often via smartphone as computer. And this percentage is growing quickly year over year.