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I'm not a mobile app developer by profession. But I always wanted to start learning and developing real world apps. The problem I always ran into the tutorials

by 120bits 10y ago

I'm not a mobile app developer by profession. But I always wanted to start learning and developing real world apps. The problem I always ran into the tutorials and demos, that they are mostly limited(i.e not close to solving real world problems). I think browsing their code, will give me a good start. And I would know how it's done right! Thank You!

ywecur 10y ago
I have the same problem. If anybody has any good resources, please let me know.
wapz 10y ago
Truthfully, I think you're better off with the tutorials and demos. Good ones will split up how to achieve what you need to achieve. Diving into a huge app like this will be confusing to figure out how everything is working. If you are already familiar with Android/iOS, then I think looking at these bigger projects can really piece everything together (but you wouldn't start with say rxjava and rxlifecycle on your own before understanding Android).
BuuQu9hu 10y ago
Lots more open source Android apps on f-droid: https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/
nodamage 10y ago
Having looked through this project I would not recommend using it as a basis for learning how an iOS app is "done right", as they've deviated from standard iOS/Swift paradigms significantly. In particular, the use of ReactiveCocoa and MVVM creates an app that is structured completely differently from a "traditional" iOS app. They've also used (abused?) Swift's ability to define custom operators which results in a lot of code like this: self.youLabel |> authorBadgeLabelStyle |> UILabel.lens.textColor .~ .whiteColor() |> UILabel.lens.text %~ { _ in Strings.update_comments_you() } Which again is very different from regular iOS/Swift code. That said, I think this project is interesting to look at from the perspective of "this is what it would look like to go all-in with ReactiveCocoa and MVVM". It's kinda like Twisted in Python: Twisted code looks very different from normal Python code, cause once you start using Twisted, it becomes Twisted all the way down.

by 120bits 10y ago

ywecur 10y ago

I have the same problem. If anybody has any good resources, please let me know.

wapz 10y ago

Truthfully, I think you're better off with the tutorials and demos. Good ones will split up how to achieve what you need to achieve. Diving into a huge app like this will be confusing to figure out how everything is working. If you are already familiar with Android/iOS, then I think looking at these bigger projects can really piece everything together (but you wouldn't start with say rxjava and rxlifecycle on your own before understanding Android).

BuuQu9hu 10y ago

Lots more open source Android apps on f-droid: https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/

nodamage 10y ago

Having looked through this project I would not recommend using it as a basis for learning how an iOS app is "done right", as they've deviated from standard iOS/Swift paradigms significantly. In particular, the use of ReactiveCocoa and MVVM creates an app that is structured completely differently from a "traditional" iOS app. They've also used (abused?) Swift's ability to define custom operators which results in a lot of code like this: self.youLabel |> authorBadgeLabelStyle |> UILabel.lens.textColor .~ .whiteColor() |> UILabel.lens.text %~ { _ in Strings.update_comments_you() } Which again is very different from regular iOS/Swift code. That said, I think this project is interesting to look at from the perspective of "this is what it would look like to go all-in with ReactiveCocoa and MVVM". It's kinda like Twisted in Python: Twisted code looks very different from normal Python code, cause once you start using Twisted, it becomes Twisted all the way down.