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Building accessible React Native Apps

Amine BellakridMobile EngineeringMarch 12, 2020

The concept of accessibility stems from the universal need to design and develop software, tools and technologies to accommodate every category of users. There’s a popular misconception that accessibility benefits only people with disabilities. This is not entirely true given …

Integrating Sentry for Android

Amine BellakridQA & TestingFebruary 21, 2020

Last week we looked into the pros and cons of four popular crash reporting tools. This time, we’re gonna dive into the integration part. Now, the details of integration are going to vary per combination of package and platform, and …

Picking a crash reporting tool

Amine BellakridQA & TestingFebruary 13, 2020

One of the most challenging tasks in mobile app development is reproducing issues users are hitting in production. Several factors come together to frustrate your investigation: users might only hit bugs on uncommon devices, or only when they are several …

Infinite scrolling React Native Apps for performance optimization

Amine BellakridMobile EngineeringJanuary 23, 2020

Infinite scrolling is a very important piece of functionality in modern mobile applications. When done right, it improves the performance of the application, optimizes render calls and offers an overall great user experience. Why? because it makes loading a predefined …

Build advanced animations in React Native with the native Animated API

Amine BellakridUncategorizedDecember 10, 2019

One of the most interesting and rewarding things about working with React Native is the fact that it gives you access to a ton of native features that you would have otherwise only had access to if you were writing …

Testing private APIs

Amine BellakridQA & TestingNovember 21, 2019

If you’re starting to explore options for cloud testing your mobile apps, some of your first questions might be: is your app safe to test in production? Those of you deploying enterprise apps via MDM might wonder, how would a …

The basics of: QA metrics part 1 – What is quality?

johanna johanssonQA & TestingOctober 4, 2019

Metrics can be a tricky territory to navigate. It’s not so much about the data itself, but figuring out what’s actually important and what that looks like in the shape of numbers. Yes, metrics can be a deceiving business. That’s …

Will it break? Investigating what makes for a good tester

johanna johanssonUncategorizedAugust 13, 2019

What makes a good tester can make for a hot topic. So we decided to dip into (but not engage in) the debate in Ministry of Testing’s Slack channel to gauge what the general opinion was among our fellow testing …

Getting team buy-in for automated mobile testing

johanna johanssonQA & TestingJuly 23, 2019

Getting team buy-in is notoriously difficult. Even when change is absolutely necessary, it’s tough to get people to care enough to support it. Why? Because of habits. Because of comfort. Because of complacency. But managers can’t blame their team for …

Introducing Playground: Your analytics inspector for iOS

Amine BellakridQA & TestingJune 25, 2019

Today we’re excited to share something we’ve been working on for a while. Some of you may have followed us on Product Hunt, some of you may have seen the sneak peek we posted last week, and some of you …