As mobile developers, when talking about images and videos, one of our main concerns is creating a smooth and amazing experience for our users, no matter what kind of device or network connection they are using. In this article, I’m going to show you how you can easily improve this experience using Cloudinary and Fresco.
To keep your product relevant in the market, you should be building Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Consider these testimonies on conversion rates, provided by leading companies, such as Twitter, Forbes, AliExpress, Booking.com and others. This article doesn't go into background, history or principles surrounding PWA. Instead we want to show a practical approach to building a progressive web app using the Vue.js library.
(Guest post by Sebastien Morel)
At Novactive, we are always excited to use new technologies and/or to improve our favorite technologies with other ones when it makes sense for us, for our clients and for the community.
The announcement of the iPhone 8, 8 plus and the iPhone X at the iPhone 10th anniversary Apple event on 12th September 2017, came with a massive buzz.
The iPhone X (pronounced "iPhone 10") has a 5.8-inch super retina screen, which stands out amongst other Apples, giving the machine the tagline “it is all screen”. A resolution of 2436 x 1125 is also featured, making it the highest resolution iPhone to date.
Unoptimized images can be incredible bottlenecks that turn an otherwise well-built web page into a slow loading, bloated one. With the ever-increasing percentage of users on mobile devices, properly sizing and optimizing images to provide a good mobile experience is even more important.
Having a commanding presence in eCommerce is very important for the average entrepreneur or merchant today. Building a brand for your business online can be tricky. It’s frustrating having HD images from your product photographer and not having the right tools to optimize the image size and delivery time without losing the quality of the image. This causes latency in your online stores and piles up bad experiences for your users, resulting in losing conversions and revenues.
Knowledge is power. And if you allow your users to upload images, you also probably want to better understand what their images contain. Whether a photo is of a building, people, animals, celebrities, or a product, image processing and analysis can assist in further comprehension. The benefits of this knowledge can go beyond "merely" categorizing your content and making your image library searchable: drawing insights from user generated content can be very useful! What better way to learn more about your users than to analyze the images they upload and find out what they care about and then have the ability to display relevant content to them according to their interests or even match them with other users that share similar interests.
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.
Here at Cloudinary, we provide a cloud-based tool that enables our users to compress images and video for their websites and apps. Our goal is to preserve the visual integrity of the content, but deliver the smallest file size to any device or browser to ultimately optimize website performance and end user satisfaction.
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.