1. Boost Up Your Mobile
Development Practice
Uroš Krkić & Dragiša Rakić
17.05.2014.

2. Agenda
• Intro
• User perceived performance
• Offline mode
• Large image handling
• Whitelabeling
• Analytics
• Well known libraries (overview): iOS, Android
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3. User perceived performance
• Be responsive
• Speed-up UI
– Blocking UI
– Long running tasks
• Show progress
– User interaction
• Lazy loading
– Data loading
– Remote services
– Caching
– Paged UI
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4. Offline mode
• Caching
– In memory cache
– Permanent cache
• Ship app with pre-loaded data
• Usability in offline
• Inform the user about offline
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5. Large image handling
• Ship images with app vs download from Internet
– Memory vs Bandwidth
• Avoid main-thread processing
• Caching
– By URL
– Use timestamping
• Tiling
– CATiledLayer
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6. Whitelabeling
• Concept
• Why to whitelabel?
• What to whitelabel?
• Pros & Cons
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7. Analytics
• Flurry
– http://www.flurry.com/solutions/analytics
• Google Analytics
– http://www.google.com/analytics/mobile/
• Mixpanel
– https://mixpanel.com/
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8. Well known libraries
• iOS
– AFNetworking
• https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking
– RestKit
• https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit
– ShareKit
• https://github.com/ShareKit/ShareKit
– FMDB
• https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb
– SVProgressHUD
• https://github.com/samvermette/SVProgressHUD
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9. Well known libraries
• Android
– OrmLite
• http://ormlite.com/
– SQLLite browser plugin for Eclipse
• https://code.google.com/p/android-sqlite-browser-for-eclipse/
– ViewPagerIndicator
• http://viewpagerindicator.com/
– Drag & Drop list view (not longer maintained)
• https://github.com/bauerca/drag-sort-listview
– Universal Image Loader for Android
• https://github.com/nostra13/Android-Universal-Image-Loader
– AChartEngine
• http://www.achartengine.org/
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10. Thank you for your attention!
Krkić, Uroš, Senior Software Architect / Team Manager
u.krkic@youngculture.com
Rakić, Dragiša, Senior Software Engineer
d.rakic@youngculture.com
youngculture d.o.o.
advanced software engineering
Bulevar Zorana Đinđića 64a
11070 Novi Beograd
+381 11 40 49 998
www.youngculture.com

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