At Forestry, we believe that there is a bright future for static HTML sites built with tools like Jekyll and Hugo. These tools can create sites that run well, and are easy to host and maintain, because they don’t require any server-side code.
ExoPlayer is a media player library for Android developed and maintained by Google, which provides an alternative to the Android’s MediaPlayer. It comes with some added advantages over the default MediaPlayer, including dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), smooth streaming and common Encryption. One of its greatest advantage, however, is its easy customization.
With more than one billion people using WhatsApp, the platform is becoming a go-to for reliable and secure instant messaging. Having so many users means that data transfer processes must be optimized and scalable across all platforms. WhatsApp is touted for its ability to achieve significant media quality preservation when traversing the network from sender to receiver, and this is no easy feat to achieve.
Allowing your users to upload their own images to your website can increase user engagement, retention and monetization. However, allowing your users to upload any image they want to, may lead to some of your users uploading inappropriate images to your application. These images may offend other users or even cause your site to violate standards or regulations.
Developing applications for mobile consumption requires facing, and overcoming, some difficult challenges. Apps need to limit their RAM, CPU and battery usage while still performing the required tasks in a reasonable time frame. If too many background tasks are running, the mobile device can become sluggish, with the battery running out very quickly. Coordination with other apps is crucial to keep the device responsive and make the battery last longer.
Developers are constantly faced with challenges of building complex products every single day. And there are constraints on the time needed to build out the features of these products.
Engineering and Product managers want to beat deadlines for projects daily. CEOs want to roll out new products as fast as possible. Entrepreneurs need their MVPs like yesterday. With this in mind, what should developers do?
Images and video are a core component of websites, mobile apps and our digital life. They deliver exciting content and improve the user experience by delivering the best format, size and quality to meet each web visitor’s unique needs
As developers of web apps, you often need to let users upload files to your app - mainly images and videos. You want the upload interface you provide to offer an intuitive user experience, including the ability to drag & drop multiple media files, preview thumbnails of selected images and videos, view upload progress indication and more. Since we now all live in the cloud era, chances are that many of your users also store media files in the cloud rather than only locally on hard drives and mobile devices, so the option to pick files from social networks like Facebook, cloud storage services such as Dropbox, photo services like Google Photos and more is a big advantage.
Images need to be transformed to optimal formats, resized and cropped for various aspect ratios, especially if you have a responsive site. In addition, you may want to apply special effects and overlays. Videos, too, need to be optimized for web delivery, transcoded to support different resolution options and streamed using adaptive streaming, as well as making other modifications. Then, when your media files are stored on the cloud, you’ll want fast delivery via content deliver networks (CDNs) to ensure a great user experience.
TLDR Web applications have improved greatly. Gone are the days where you click a button and wait for an endless reload of your browser to get the desired results. Modern applications take advantage of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) to cut in half the time taken from a click-to-action to response-from-server to give users a seamless experience navigating their platforms.