In this article, we'll take a look at the challenges involved in building real-time applications and how emerging tooling is addressing them with elegant solutions that are easy to reason about. To do this, we'll build a real-time polling app (like a Twitter poll with real-time overall stats) just by using Postgres, GraphQL, React and no backend code! The primary focus will be on setting up the backend (deploying the ready-to-use tools, schema modeling), and aspects of frontend integration with GraphQL and less on UI/UX of the frontend (some knowledge of ReactJS will help).

Have you ever wondered what it takes to create a SpriteKit game? Does collision detection seem like a daunting task? Do you want to know how to properly handle sound effects and background music? Game-making has never been easier on iOS since the introduction of SpriteKit. In part two of this three-part series, we will explore the basics of SpriteKit. If you missed out on the previous lesson, you can catch up by getting the code on GitHub. Remember that this tutorial requires Xcode 8 and Swift 3.The post How To Build A SpriteKit Game In Swift 3 (Part 2) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

There is UI animation, and then there is good UI animation. Good animation makes you go "Wow!" — it's smooth, beautiful and, most of all, natural, not blocky, rigid or robotic. If you frequent Dribbble or UpLabs, you'll know what I am talking about. With so many amazing designers creating such beautiful animations, any developer would naturally want to recreate them in their own projects. Now, CSS does provide some presets for transition-timing-function, such as ease-in, ease-out and ease-in-out, which add some level of smoothness and realism, but they are very generic, aren't they? How boring would it be if every animation on the web followed the same three timing functions? The post Upgrading CSS Animation With Motion Curves appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Does it ever seem like certain website color schemes just get all the attention? As with every other aspect of web design, there are color schemes that tend to trend more than others. Bright colors, stark palettes, and even some mismatching schemes are elements of color that are trending. Here's a look at some of […]

This week's Designer News (N.448) includes Speed Up Alignment in CSS with Flexbox Utility Classes, a Tool for Collaboratively Editing CSS, Evolving the Firefox Brand, ApexCharts, Argon Design System, Using srcset for Responsive Images, The Age of the Wordless Logo and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 448 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

This week's Designer News - No 551 - includes Teeny Icons, Templatery Figma Templates, Leon Sans Code-Based Typeface, Web Stories by Google for WordPress, Image Manipulation with CSS, Bootstrap Snippet 'Bits', Typeculator and a so much more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 551 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Developing a mobile application involves several tasks. There are only two major platforms of mobile applications: Android and iOS. Developers use Kotlin and Java to build Android applications while use Objective C and Swift to develop iOS applications. The native development process offers premium performance and API integration and easy to access hardware devices and much more. You need to keep this in mind while doing native app development because it's costly, and it depends on the number of platforms you want to cover. This means different applications from different platforms, two codebases, two separate development projects, double the expenses.

At Smashing, we've been busy over the last few months. We've set up new workshops, redesigned our navigation, refined performance and improved accessibility. There are subtle UX changes coming in, and we'd love to share what we've been cooking.

Twilio Segment, the latest evolution of Twilio post-acquisition of Segment, is looking to build upon all the technical expertise that the company gained in absorbing Segment and has released a new developer toolkit to support this effort. This toolkit is intended to provide robust data collection and integration capabilities.

The exponential development and advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) has led to the possibility of automation. They have been rapidly innovating and transforming industries across the world. Artificial intelligence and automation make any machine's work process more comfortable, which would otherwise require superior intelligence by humans. Computers built with the power of artificial intelligence and automation will have the intellectual ability to self-learn and optimize their behavior based on their former experience. A study conducted by a team of enthusiastic Tech Jury in 2020 identified the following: Artificial intelligence and automation can improve the work and … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com