In the previous post we saw why one should care about backing up and restoring their apps’ data, and one possible way of doing it. In this second and last part, we’ll see an easier way to backup data, and how we can ease migrations/reinstalls even more by
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The Mobile UX London Conference (MUXL), founded by Naveed Ratansi has developed from a series of design meet-ups focussed on mobile user experience. The design team at Novoda were lucky enough to attend their third annual conference with a diverse set of topics spanning research, analytics and emerging technologies. As
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Retaining users when they migrate to a new Android device, or when they reinstall your app, can be tricky. If you don't craft a smooth experience, they might just drop your app and go to a competitor. Fortunately, Android Data Backup APIs can help! It’s autumn, it’s new
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Did you think I forgot? 😅 Part two will introduce some more gestures as well as some advanced TalkBack usage. Continuing from our last post from the Using TalkBack series, we'll cover system navigation gestures, TalkBack's global context menu, local context menu as well as customised actions. (This post assumes TalkBack
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I have to admit, when Lottie was initially announced by Airbnb I didn’t pay too much attention. I just skimmed the Github page without realising its true potential. Fast forward a few months to a project where we had to implement a hero animation in an app and Lottie
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It is the most useful tool a designer can possess, and yet designers are still jumping into digital tools before they consider a classic combo… The pencil and sketchbook. As Novoda's creative lead, it’s not my job to dictate which tools the design team uses to create their masterpieces.
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At Novoda, we maintain a competency or skills matrix for each of our projects. We rate ourselves in areas of the project or technology, from one to four, and this helps us to identify potential information silos so we can avoid them. I was surprised that no one wrote "
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accessibilitools 1.4.0 was released a few weeks ago. In this post, I'll share what this small set of classes consists of and how you can use it to create more inclusive Android apps. accessibilitools is a tiny collection of utilities to help the production of accessible Android apps.
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We’ve all been there: In the midst of using an app a dialogue pops up asking us to stop everything we are doing and to leave a review on the Play Store. This interruption is not only annoying but also not very effective as most people will simply dismiss
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