RoboForm April 9, 2017 at 16:25

The digest of interesting materials for the mobile developer # 198 (on April 2-9)

From the new digest you can find out how automatic testing in Mail is arranged, in several versions about how to work with WebRTC, that Android has become the most used OS in the world, that MZ collects all the data from the world and about the average “for the hospital” people's involvement in applications.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is a hyperbole

30 years ago, this team cleared the IBM PC / XT screen. I, as enchanted, looked at the extinct 320 by 200 black dots and realized that now I can ignite them, like stars in the sky. A simple team. Simple guy. And I lit it. I lit it so that I still can’t cool down.

React Native: another “silver bullet” for cross-platform development?

There are revolutions that happen unnoticed. When the Facebook developers released the React Native framework, nobody captured bridges and telegraphs. The new approach to cross-platform development of mobile applications managed to capture the most valuable thing - the brains of native programmers.

How automated testing is arranged in Mail.Ru Mail for iOS

To test each assembly, we conduct more than 500 autotests that run in less than one hour. How did we implement them and why? What problems did you face and how could you solve them?

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