Questions tagged [mobile]
**Mobile application development** is the process by which application software is developed for mobile devices (usually low-power handheld or portable devices).
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How to handle external WhatsApp invite links reliably on a directory site?
I run a website that lists many WhatsApp group invite links.
I’m looking for a way to handle these external links so that:
They work reliably on desktop and mobile
Users are redirected to WhatsApp ...
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Integration testing strategy for a volatile domain
Imagine following scenario:
Our team is working on a mobile project in biometrics. The team delivers a client facing SDK. Our work relies on another internal team, that is delivering algorithms in a ...
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Deciding between two design alternatives for displaying series of screens in mobile applications?
I am developing a mobile application, and one of the features is a "story" that is essentially a series of screens. The screens can be of three main templates:
A "video" template ...
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Utilising Social Logins via OAuth2 in native mobile apps
This question has been asked over and over again, but I have not yet found a satisfying answer:
How to use Social Logins (via OAuth2) to obtain access tokens for your backend if your only clients are ...
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How can I manage user data without the login feature? [closed]
I am making a .net Maui QR code business card application and the application will not have authorization features such as member login and registration.
And my app needs to be able to create business ...
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Best approach to sync data between mobile app cache and the server db? [duplicate]
I have an offline-first mobile app. The user enters data, data is saved into local SQLite database.
The server has Postgres database. I need to build a two-directional sync strategy that keeps data on ...
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Complex stateful logic in MVVM architecture
I'm building a mobile app in Flutter, and the project has several distinct layers. The top part is something better described as MVVM: dumb View layer that performs rendering and delegates actions to ...
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What is the name of the approach (practice) when several unrelated entities are returned at once in the response to a request [closed]
For example, for a mobile frontend, you need to get all the data for rendering at once. The interface is divided into blocks, in which there can be both blocks with a catalog (categories) and other ...
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Why do some app makers limit their app to certain regions?
For example, many dating apps are limited to only certain cities of the USA. Or, they launch first in only regions and then may be unlocked across the country.
Why the restriction?
Why wouldn't you ...
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Feature Flag based architecture pattern for iOS/Android applications
Am exploring options of adopting feature flag based development to deliver builds faster instead of getting tangled in release branch management rabbit hole.
As of now I am not able to find a good ...
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Should a mobile app keep an 'outdated' version of the data and refresh it from database or always fetch from database?
I'm building a mobile, in which the user is able to create,modify and delete entries in a database. There are multiple screen where some of the entries are displayed: (here are some examples, not ...
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Design a model for a user
There has been a change in the project I am working on.
Until today, there was only one type of user in the system.
From the moment you logged in, you had all the information about the user.
The new ...
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Keeping version parity between platforms
I'm in the mobile development domain and I use semantic versioning to version my releases. I keep both versions the same as long as new builds are released for both iOS and Android platforms at the ...
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How to estimate scaling up costs/resources-needed of a project? [closed]
Let's consider an entrepreneur decides to create a new company like Airbnb, Netflix, etc. The problem is about the software part. He doesn't know how long it takes to create the mobile/web app? How ...
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Is there a way to detect if the guest user on web page has opened my mobile application to enhance his user xp [closed]
I have a website and mobile applications Android & IOS, all platforms are connected to the same database, what we are trying to do is to enhance the user experience by showing him specific ...
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