News, thoughts and ideas from the team
SALT Security Interview
by Toine Heuvelmans
January 5th, 2021In al onze projecten, van groot tot klein, speelt veiligheid een belangrijke rol. Veilig omgaan met klantgegevens en bedrijfsgegevens, maar ook op een veilige manier werken aan en communiceren over deze projecten. Welke gegevens slaan we op in de app en welke in de back-end, is dit in lijn met de AVG? Welke gebruiker kan bij welke gegevens, hoe bepalen we wie wie is, en of dat ook echt zo is? H...
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App Clips Lab Day: The Size Limit
by Toine Heuvelmans
December 22nd, 2020During our most recent Lab Day we experimented with App Clips. This new iOS feature, discussed in detail in this earlier blog post, allows potential users of your app to easily discover it and try out a single part of your app, where and when they need it most. In this post I will go into detail on the size limit for an App Clip.An App Clip should be small, such that it can be downloaded quickl...
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How we increased app usage by 250%
by Heiko Beereboom
December 17th, 2020Launching an application is often just the first step to success. No matter how well thought out at the drawing board or evaluated and fine-tuned with intended users, it is often only the beginning of a successful mobile application. Many new factors often arise after the initial launch. Users have new wishes, the business is engaged in further optimizing the targets and the usage figures provi...
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A closer look into AppSheet
by Heiko Beereboom
October 15th, 2020At Touchwonders we find it very important to stay informed about the latest developments in our field of work. One of the ways to keep ourselves up-to-date is by organising internal ‘innovation’ days to dive into something new. Here we focus on new tech that we find interesting and want to learn more about. Examples of previous topics are: accessibility on mobile devices part 1 and part 2, voic...
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App Clips
“If only there was an app for that!”
by Toine Heuvelmans
September 27th, 2020At the WWDC20 this year, Apple revealed a new feature coming in iOS 14 that can drastically improve the discoverability of your app: App Clips allow you to use and experience a single part of an app, exactly when and where it is most useful. This answers that thought that we probably all have had at least once: “If only there was an app for that!” In essence, an App Clip is a small part of your...
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Reporting test coverage for Swift packages without Xcode
by Michele Volpato
August 11th, 2020Learn how to report test coverage of Swift packages without using Xcode. By running tests in a Linux machine, you can integrate the process in your CI/CD system using a Docker container.If you use Xcode, Swift packages are the easiest way to include reusable components of Swift code in your project. You can easily add a Swift package to your project using Xcode, which uses the Sw...
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Implementing Server-Side Swift
Why we chose Vapor over Kitura
by Finn Hamers
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Xcode 11 Themes
by Toine Heuvelmans
June 15th, 2020Last year we took a closer look at Xcode Themes and proposed a selection of colors and fonts that not merely looks pretty, but also conveys information that supports understanding your code more easily. With the introduction of Xcode version 11 a few new syntax identifiers have been made available to themes. In this short update we will go through these new identifiers and review our Touchwonde...
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Stress Test
by Toine Heuvelmans
March 25th, 2020Many of the mobile solutions we build rely on backend systems. When the userbase for such a mobile application is rapidly growing, it is important to know the weak spots of the environment in which the application lives. This article explains how we setup and performed a stress test at one of our clients. Example caseFor this example, we are looking at a mobile application that heavily rel...
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Accessibility (part 2)
by Nadine Popping
October 17th, 2019Is your app / website usable by everyone? At Touchwonders, the apps that we create are never "finished" - we constantly strive to improve them. For one of our latest apps, Elevate, we were wondering if it was accessible for everyone. We tested it with the focus on 7 disabilities: Blindness, Dyslexia, Autism spectrum disorder, Physical or motor disability, Deaf or hard of hearing, Low visio...
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