
09 Sep 2020 • Anastasia Osypenko
What Is Geoclustering? How to Handle 200,000 Points on the MapWhile making an application for truck drivers, we faced an engineering challenge plotting location data on a map in a way that overwhelming volumes wouldn’t crash users’ phones. We had more than 200,000 geopoints and needed them to be grouped into certain categories so that a driver would operate within these categories instead of seeing all the points at once. We solved this issue by applying a…

09 Sep 2020 • Anastasia Osypenko
Logistics Problems and Solutions: How Mobile Apps Serve the Transportation IndustryThe logistics industry has been through many automation phases already. A lot of companies replaced manual labour with technology and updated their services. But given the complexity of the processes involved, logistics still suffers from the issues that arise from a lack of automation and, unfortunately, chaotic management. We touched upon logistics problems and solutions before when we described…

09 Sep 2020 • Anastasia Osypenko
How to Make a GPS Navigation App That Stands OutThe days of pulling out a trusty road map from the glove box are far behind us, and with good riddance! These days it seems somewhat kooky to go exploring or building a trip route without the assistance of a mobile navigation app. But these apps are not just a map – instead, GPS applications enable so many actions that it’s hard to imagine how we ever lived without them. The beauty of it is that a…

09 Sep 2020 • Anastasia Osypenko
Twilio Alternatives: How to Integrate Messages and Calls into Your AppBefore the emergence of CPaaS, integrating a messaging feature into a business would take months. You would need to find a telecom service provider and set up a telephone exchange. Now, all of it can be handled by companies that provide dedicated services like programmable voice, SMS, chat, video, and so on. What comes to a regular user as a feature seamlessly built into an application – whether…

09 Sep 2020 • Anastasia Osypenko
Logistics App Development: All You Need to Know to Build the Next Uber for TrucksEmpty mileage causes significant damage to the freight industry. It adds unstableness to the trucker’s job, increases accident risk on the road, and represents a serious threat to the environment. American trucks drive 50 billion empty miles a year, which is more than a quarter of their total mileage. Similar numbers can be applied to Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world. Such…

09 Sep 2020 • Anastasia Osypenko
Mapbox vs Google Maps: Choosing a Map for Your AppMany of the numerous services available via apps require location data. If you want to include a map in your app, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel and make it from scratch. Instead, choose the best pre-existing mapping tool for your project. Let’s say, for example, that you’re making a system for people who are looking for ways to buy medication. First, you will need a map which shows all the…

09 Sep 2020 • Anastasia Osypenko
How to Build Your Own POS SystemPOS systems are so entrenched in our daily lives that we don’t even notice them. When we buy our morning coffee, fuel our cars, or stock up at the supermarket, we don’t see, or even care about, all the software functions at work which allow us to pay quickly and efficiently. But it’s the software solutions and the technology behind POS systems which are responsible for our customer experience…

08 Sep 2020 • Ekaterina Kelembet
What Is Automated Mobile App Testing and What Are the Benefits?Naturally, you want your application to meet user expectations and gain traction. For this, you need a solid team of developers and effective mobile app testing that will ensure a high-quality end product. Estimates show that testing takes up to 40 per cent of the overall IT spend and sometimes, testing costs can even surpass the development budget. This mainly happens when testing is considered…

08 Sep 2020 • Anastasia Osypenko
How to Build a Mobile App for Restaurant OrderingLearn from our experience in restaurant reservation app development. We cover features, technology and cost of building restaurant booking apps.