Category: Development

How To Simplify Android Networking With The Volley HTTP Library

   In a world driven by the Internet, mobile apps need to share and receive information from their products’ back end (for example, from databases) as well as from third-party sources such as Facebook and Twitter.These inter...

Clippy: Visual Generator for Complex Clipping Paths With CSS3

The CSS attribute clip-path allows you to make sure that not the entire content of a box is displayed in the browser by using complex clipping paths. This way, powerful effects are possible. The web app Clippy takes care of the coding for you. You compile your clipping paths visually and immediately see the result. The...

Outdated Browser: Free Project Informs Your Visitors About the State of Their Browser

The problem is not as severe as it was several years ago. Nonetheless, even today, too many people are still surfing using an outdated browser. If your website is very up to date in terms of web standards, these people won’t be able to enjoy that. So, before they get angry at you, just give them a friendly notifi...

10 Helpful Tools for Web Developers – January 2017

Creating a website from scratch can be an enjoyable, interesting and engaging job. Though, along with compelling and thought-provoking tasks that as a rule make your day, there are stages of prototyping that can easily ruin all the fun with its banality and boring pieces of work that should be done. Unfortunately thes...

Laudable Apps Collects the Prettiest iPhone Apps

This right here is for esthetes only. And, as we all know, pure esthetes exclusively use iPhones. Tobias Reich from Frankfurt is one of those. He runs “Laudable Apps.” “Laudable Apps” is a collection of the prettiest iPhone apps on the market. Tobias has been curating like crazy since 2012 alrea...

Libraries.io: New Search Engine for Open Source Projects

Libraries.io is a new project for web designers and developers. It helps you stay on top of libraries, modules, and frameworks from the open source ocean.Libraries.io: Landing Page. (Screenshot: Noupe) Nimble Search Engine Ignores Platform Borders Libraries.io is growing quickly. By now, it already has more than two ...

What’s Design Thinking and Why Should You Bother?

Design Thinking means becoming more agile, speeding up innovation cycles, working in a more customer-oriented way. What happens if you don’t do that can be seen when looking at Nokia, Kodak, Blackberry, and other, previously successful, players. What’s Design Thinking? Of course, there’s a highly scie...

CSS, Logos, Colors: Three New Tools for Your Design Toolbox

Over the weekend, I stumbled across a bunch of new services and tools that could help ease the life of designers and developers. Among them, there’s a solution for appealing loadtime indicators, aka spinners and loaders, a service that dissects popular logos, as well as a source of inspiration for contemporary co...

On-the-Fly Image Overlays using Cloudinary

Image overlay isn’t solely about having the right touch to create an amazing visual. You also need a great tool that simplifies the process. Cloudinary, a cloud-based image and video service for websites and mobile applications, is exactly the tool you need. How to Overlay Images First open a free Cloudinary account,...

Fibonacci Flexbox Composer: Comfortable Tool Makes CSS Flexbox Easy

The web app Fibonacci Flexbox Composer by Max Steenbergen from the Netherlands is an immense help when it comes to getting into CSS Flexbox. Basically, no prior knowledge is needed at all.Flexbox: Flexible Page Division Takes Getting Used to Here at Noupe, we have already dealt with Flexbox a couple of times. If you ...