At Mobile Reality, we know well that it’s not easy to adapt to a new work environment, but as a team, we do everything to make everybody feel good. We strongly believe that despite the age difference, middle-aged people are able to give the company real value, and share their professional experience and knowledge that younger colleagues don’t have yet. Of course, a lot depends on them, whether they will overcome their weaknesses and fears, will be able to communicate with younger colleagues, want to integrate with the rest of the team, and whether they will believe that they bring value to the company.

Despite the results of numerous studies confirming that the differences in cognitive abilities of representatives of different sexes are negligible, women working in the IT field still have to prove their professionalism and competence. And sometimes they have to prove it even to themselves. A survey on the level of operational efficiency conducted by Wrike in 2018 sheds light on this problem. They interviewed more than a thousand specialists from the United States about how work is organized in their companies. And 48% of the women surveyed said that any of their rationalization proposals will be ignored or will not reach the implementation stage. For comparison, the number of men who gave this answer was 42%.

Business analytics (or Business Intelligence, BI) is less talked about today than Big Data or artificial intelligence. We hear about Big Data, immediately a taste of the future. We hear about business analytics, we remember something expensive and clumsy. Maybe it's the myths that have developed around BI? After all, business analytics appeared a long time ago. Developed as a tool for solving specific practical problems. It has found application in all large companies, however, it is still rarely used by medium and small businesses. Today, business analytics is a very simple way to apply information technology in order to succeed in business. Misconceptions and stereotypes can become an obstacle. That's why we've decided to debunk the TOP 6 myths about BI.

You have decided to create your own product: you have already chosen to work with our #MRTteam, issued ideas, and are ready to start development. But first, it is important to solve one more question — how the process of working on the project will be organized. Previously, all projects were conducted according to a single Waterfall methodology, it has been known since 1970 when Winston Walker Royce invented and described it. Later, flexible Scrum and Kanban approaches appeared. We successfully apply all three methodologies in practice at Mobile Reality, and this article is about how we conduct projects not in a canonical form, but in an outsourcing environment where the project manager fully manages the processes.

Every year, March is a special month for Mobile Reality. First of all, spring is starting in Europe, and we’re also celebrating our company's birthday. In 2022, we celebrated a very special birthday, already the sixth. Pretty awesome! We have just 6 amazing years on the market. 6 years full of challenges, successes and failures, and valuable learning. During this time, we experienced so many emotions, met so many interesting people, traveled the world at many conferences and networking meetings, and established cooperation with the best clients around the world. Can we dream of something else? Yeees! We have many dreams, but most of all, we want to further develop our company and run it in such a way that our employees can develop with us, and customers from all over the world are satisfied.

With the increase in the number of tasks that we can perform on our mobile phones, the work of programmers is becoming more difficult. But not only the tasks performed, but also various platforms, such as iOS and Android, also make it difficult and time-consuming for developers to create first-class applications. However, React Native makes development easier. Here we will discuss how React Native facilitates the work of developers and look at some well-known applications using React Native.

Today, there are many programming languages that web specialists use to create online projects all over the world. Each of the languages has its own advantages and opportunities for the development of original sites, in addition, the convenience of using a particular language when writing high-quality code plays an important role. In this article for MRBlog, we will consider all the features and characteristics of the TypeScript language, which was developed by the world-famous Microsoft company. The language specifications are open and published under the Open Web Foundation Specification Agreement.

Machine learning, neural networks, and all related technologies continue to evolve. AI has penetrated into many areas of life and work. According to Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Inc. and parent company Alphabet, the impact of artificial intelligence (its weak form) on humanity is comparable to the impact that the use of fire or the beginning of the use of electricity had. The influence of AI technologies on humanity is gradually growing, and it will continue to increase next year. Experts predict several trends that will become the main factors in the development of AI technologies in the second half of 2022 - to the first of 2023.

After that, I recognized there was a price tag with USDs on it. Wait. USD price? How people can buy it or sell it with real money on the blockchain? That was a question that led me to the conclusion that big things will come.

Recruiting a technical specialist is something like a literary. Even a high-quality prescreen and an hourly CBI don’t guarantee a good result for the hiring manager. Also, we all know that these interviews are a big stress and part of work not just for the HR department, but also for the person that asks for work. For our hiring manager, the main difficulty lies not only in accessing competencies but also in predicting the candidate’s behavior in the future. The candidate doesn’t apply only for work when his candidature is approved - he becomes a part of our big #MRTeam family. Our HR Specialist Aneta has written before about why Mobile Reality is a great place to work. And that’s the main reason why in Mobile Reality our recruitment process is not a big secret or something inconceivable. In this article, we tell you 8 common questions about our developer interviews. We hope that you’ll find it helpful. 

The 2020 pandemic has made its own adjustments to technological progress, and at the moment there are clearly noticeable changes in the trends in the development of mobile applications. In 2021, the situation with quarantine restrictions has somewhat weakened, but already now we can assume which areas will be relevant at the beginning of 2022 – what developers should pay attention to and what the future of mobile development is.

There is no ideal place to work, and we all know it. It isn’t always possible for companies to create ideal working conditions for various reasons. However, it is worth doing everything that is possible to give your employees a place that they would feel a part of. We can proudly and confidently admit that Mobile Reality does everything that makes our employees feel appreciated and satisfied with their work as #MRTeam. 

Measurability and code quality determination is eternal topic in the programming world. I think all specialists who already have experience with large projects with a long history do not doubt the need to maintain the code in a high-quality condition. But there is not always enough time to find out which characteristics are important in this particular project. This article will not describe how to write and design code and whether spaces around brackets are needed. Today I will try to highlight the most important aspects that should be paid attention to and what they can affect, what are the permissible limits and how to monitor them is up to you.

This year, the primary real estate market will be more stable than in the past. Housing, though, will become more expensive, but smoothly. And by the end of the year, it may even become cheaper, given that current prices significantly exceed the purchasing power. According to experts, the price increase will depend on the exchange rate of the national currency and the cost of construction. At the same time, some believe that the first half of the year will be quiet for the market.

A week ago, the world looked completely different. We didn't expect something that will change the history of Europe. Tragedy in Ukraine caused the life of all, including the IT industry, which was even resistant to the Coronavirus situation. Why are we talking about IT? We are Software House, we work globally and Ukrainians are also a part of our #MRTeam family. All of them left their families and friends at home.. For this reason, this situation is tragic for us too..

Today, business analytics is a very simple way to apply information technology in order to succeed in business. But misconceptions and stereotypes can become an obstacle and that’s the main reason why we’ve decided to write this article and dispel some most common myths around data in business.

When it comes to the development and support of information systems, many companies prefer to cooperate with external partners. This allows you to save on maintaining your own staff of IT specialists, simplifies cost control, ensures their predictability, makes it possible to free up resources for the main business lines, brings new ideas and technologies to it.

According to Cryptonews, in the first three quarters of 2021, the volume of NFT transactions increased by 328%, bringing the total volume of transactions to $2.5 billion. For comparison: in the first half of 2020, the volume of transactions reached $13.7 million. The pandemic and the growth in the number of blockchain games accelerated the mass adoption of NFT, increasing the total global market capitalization of non-interchangeable tokens to $7 billion, and it continues to grow. In its last report, Morgan Stanley noted that NFTs could become an independent dominant sector with a market volume of $56 billion by 2030. 

In Mobile Reality, we care and focus on #MRTeam work-life balance, which is closely related to health and physical condition. We’ve been providing our employees with Multisport cards for a long time, and that’s why our #MRTeam is so active. However, we know well that just having a sports card is not what practicing sports is all about.

Just a few years ago, developers often underestimated the importance of good documentation and did not strive to master the art of writing it. If you look at the products of the Stone Age (i.e., products from a decade ago), you will find among them many libraries that do not have good (or at least some) documentation. Except, perhaps, the most popular. The developers of these libraries believed that a few code examples would be enough for any beginner to understand the idea and be able to use their development skills in practice.

Today, healthcare is blurring the boundaries, making a qualitative leap towards technical development. All innovations in medicine can bring healthcare to a new qualitative level, making it more personalized, able not only to deal with the consequences of diseases but also to influence the causes of ailments, collecting a large amount of data necessary to understand cause-and-effect relationships.

All technological developments related to human health belong to HeathTech. From tracking his condition to life insurance. The industry is distinguished by its specifics of launching digital products: narrow specialization, a strict system of state regulation, and limited access to historical medical data.

It would be unwise to make any bold predictions for fintech 2022, which should happen, without first examining the evidence of what has happened in the financial technology market in recent months. To study the market reaction, the fintech company Yobota recently conducted an independent study and surveyed more than 250 British banking and financial services executives.

Using the right libraries to optimize the workflow is the key to success.

Creating a valuable digital product is a very complicated process and it can be even more challenging if the client and a development team don’t understand everyone’s needs and a detailed product specification. That’s why product design workshops are important and needed. Our product design workshops are remote and help us to clarify your product needs and vision behind it. On these workshops #MRTeam experts work to support you to understand your business key business goals to delivers a the best experience to your users. 

It is expected that by 2022, more than half of the global economy will be based on digital technologies or be influenced by them in one form or another since most products and services will use a digital delivery model or need additional digitalization to remain competitive. According to the researchers, businesses need to prioritize investments in digital tools to expand physical assets. As a result, by 2024, more than half of all investments in IT solutions will be related to digital transformation.

A few days ago we said goodbye to 2021 and we’re starting a completely new 2022 adventure. In Mobile Reality, time passes surprisingly quickly, because a lot is happening here, but only this summary showed us how much we have achieved.

The year 2021 has put a lot of difficult questions and new tasks before people. Like many companies around the world, we had to completely rethink our usual approaches to work. We are proud of our team, which was able to quickly adapt to the situation and continued to develop products in accordance with the release plans. Our developers and project managers also worked hard not to let customers down in new circumstances.

According to NonFungible.com, in the first quarter of 2021, the total market capitalization of large NFT projects increased by 2,100% (over the whole of last year, the market grew by 300%). Most NFTs sell out instantly, and the most famous NFTs have been sold for almost $70 million. In addition, celebrities support the hype around NFT by tokenizing their music, paintings, memes, short videos, logos, computer code, and the like.

Each year, hundreds of tech and IT conferences deliver access to top professionals, sneak peeks of the latest technologies, and unique networking opportunities that can help you advance your career.

The coronavirus pandemic has challenged, perhaps, all spheres and the real estate market is no exception. In "peacetime", only a geek could imagine a completely contactless purchase of an apartment. Despite the rapid development of technology around us, all stages - from viewing the living space to obtaining a mortgage and keys - were more familiar to all participants of the transaction to be carried out offline.

The story of the incredible hype around NFT (non-fungible tokens), which we have been observing over the past year and a half, is a textbook example of how mass and social media work, as well as loud headlines about records for promoting anything. And a clear illustration of how in our capitalist world price has replaced the concept of value. Nevertheless, NFT has already been "legalized" by the main auction houses, big names of digital and non-digital artists, and it seems that we will not get away from it. At least, until they invent something new, more perfect. So let’s see what you and your business have to know about NFT.

15 years ago, companies that offered business owners to create websites barely received orders, because everyone threw up their hands and said“ "why do we need a website, who needs it because we are already selling?!" Today, a business without its own website is unthinkable. And those companies that took care of this tool in advance took the lion's share of customers, while others only sigh in disappointment that they could not get among the first.

The last few years have become significant for medicine if we talk about the number of new directions, new techniques, and the introduction of digital technologies. Healthcare is blurring the boundaries, opening the doors for interaction with all disciplines that can give it a qualitative leap to development. Artificial intelligence and wearable devices are becoming the usual means of organizing the treatment process and monitoring the human condition. There are plenty of mhealth app options for patients and their doctors, healthcare professionals - App Store and Play Market if full of healthcare apps. We can even choose between hundreds of mental health and wellness apps. But the healthcare industry is not developing only in the healthcare application sector, there is also a big step in the development of robots in the medical market. Robots have learned how to disinfect spaces, take care of patients and deliver parcels, algorithms are now able to track breathing and cough severity in primary care, and artificial intelligence can predict the spread of the virus in order to control the flow of people in public places, using health data and other health information. The pandemic accelerated the development of technologies in the field of medicine and brought to the top trends that were not so noticeable before.

Using the right libraries to optimize the workflow is the key to success. Here are the top libraries for React in 2021.

When you’re working on your new app project - time matters! That’s where React Native libraries can be your savers, time-savers. The React Native community is known as one of the more vibrant open source communities on the web and GitHub shows that React Native repository is one of the top-rated repos based on the number of contributors. There are plenty of different modules and third-party libraries for almost anything you want to implement in your next mobile app project.

Hundreds of people regularly look for apartments - as reported by Allied Market Research, in their new report titled, “Real Estate Market by Property and Business: Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2019–2026,” the global real estate market size was valued at $6.8 trillion in 2018, and is projected to reach $8.6 trillion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 2.8% from 2019 to 2026. 

When the staff works as one well-coordinated team, striving for high common goals, the company progresses, grows stronger and thrives. If employees are irritable, hostile to each other, often in conflict, and do not want to invest efforts in achieving joint tasks, this inevitably affects the results and worsens the company's KPI. To prevent this, the manager is obliged to build and maintain a healthy internal atmosphere. We will tell you what to do and what measures to take and how we did it in our Mobile Reality Team.

Welcome to the algorithm world. I would like to introduce you, in my opinion, to one of the most popular pathfinding algorithms in the IT sector which is A*. In this article, we will go through the concept of it and we will end up with a simple implementation in JS and pure React.js. Before we start I must admit that wasn’t a clever choice for showing this implementation because making a rendering engine in React.js for presentation purposes and passing every information via props isn’t the most comfortable thing to do, however, that was my foundation so I couldn't skip it 🤷‍♂. With the next implementation, I would go with simple HTML, CSS, JS and canvas (or maybe C++, it’s still a better choice for presentation stuff than React.js 😄)

NFT is an investment tool that suddenly, this spring, created a whole army of millionaires, allowing people to turn literally anything into assets. But in fact, everything is still more revolutionary than it seems. And by the end of this article, you will understand why. We tell you what NFT is, and why it is really important these days.

Hundreds of people regularly look for apartments, sign rental agreements with realtors, buy new real estate or sell old ones. The growing demand and the accelerated pace of life leave people less and less time to independently solve such problems. Who will be contacted more often for help in these matters? To someone who can solve them not only qualitatively, but also faster than others. The mobile real estate application will give your business a competitive advantage.

Each year, hundreds of tech and IT conferences deliver access to top professionals, sneak peeks of the latest technologies, and unique networking opportunities that can help you advance your career. Of course, this past year saw many annual conferences move online to virtual convention centers, and, unfortunately, many other conferences were canceled altogether. In 2021, we should expect more online-only events. 

Today, most business leaders would like to see data used pervasively throughout their organizations. While companies are collecting lots of data across their businesses, it can often remain in the periphery and mostly as untapped potential. When you see the success that data-savvy companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon have achieved, you may wonder how your organization can replicate similar gains from its data. Central to the success of these tech giants has been their ability to establish and cultivate data-driven cultures. A data-driven culture can be defined as an operating environment that seeks to leverage data whenever and wherever possible to enhance business efficiency and effectiveness.

Just having data, even a lot of data, does not guarantee success. Data can be an asset but simply having more data is not enough, having only the right technology is not enough, and having only the right analysts is not enough. A growing number of enterprises are recognizing that turning data into information, knowledge, and insights requires a data culture. Data culture encompasses values, behaviors, and attitudes of executives and employees that promote and enable use of relevant data as the driving force of decision making.

For a long time most people wrote on ASP.NET, then there was the frontend on AngularJS. In October 2016, there was a switch to Angular and Typescript. And here it is! Typing in the frontend, you can do complex things quite easily! Before that (development on nestjs) on node, developing only for fun, and somehow there was even an attempt to introduce good practices and typescript into the popular Koa. But NestJS is still a little different.

Two of the most popular data visualization tools - Tableau and Qlikview-are the most widely used tools when it comes to interpreting complex datasets. An outstanding combination of animated graphics, graphics processing tools, and BI capabilities for interactive analytics, text, and interactive dashboards, both of which have unusual features that make them stand out from each other. Tableau and Qlik have always captured a coveted spot in the Gartner magic quadrant. Let's try to understand how these two tools differ from each other.

Data has changed the way the business world works. But with so many data sources, it can be hard to know where to start. Our team of experts has broken down the similarities and differences between Tableau and Microsoft Power BI to help you make the right decision for your company.

Modern technologies have long and firmly changed our lives. On the one hand, we made many things easier and more convenient, on the other hand, with the advent of the Internet, the world began to change rapidly: new specialties appeared, and some professions, on the contrary, disappeared, new tools for solving everyday tasks appeared. But at the same time, there is still not enough time to complete these tasks.

The Vue philosophy.js is about providing the simplest possible API for creating a real-time two-way data binding between a view (HTML template) and a model (JavaScript object).

One of the most famous "must-have" tools for developers of software solutions in JavaScript is the Node.js platform. It is very simple and intuitive, even for novice coders. At the same time, Node.js allows you to work with server technologies, to implement interactive work using the computer power of users. Among other things, this platform allows you to run code from the command line of any of the common operating systems.

In the last part, we have set up our RN project, iOS certs, and profiles and the fastlane deployment. Now we can use all of this in the Bitrise panel!

When I have started development in React I thought: “Wow, what’s nice technology, everything is quite simple and easy to implement”. After 2 years of development with React, I have decided to start development with React Native. I considered it a great idea and it was! The same thoughts came to my mind about the simplicity and coolness of this solution: “One codebase for 2 platforms, this is awesome. I can’t wait how much time I will save for project implementations”.

In React Native, everything is native, so forget about full cross-platform compatibility. The platforms are different, so the components are different. They have different logic and mechanics of interaction. You can write everything in JS and throw out the concept of native, but you don’t want that. Native is your advantage!

Do you want to learn about React, but you still don’t get the chance to learn It? Or maybe you’ve already tried to master React, but couldn’t really understand it? Or maybe you have figured out the basics, but you want to put your knowledge in order? This article is written specifically for those who have answered at least one of these questions positively. Today we will create a simple music player, revealing the basic concepts of React as we move towards the goal.

Welive in an exciting time of accelerated innovation, increased global competition, and unprecedented opportunity to disrupt and reinvent. The exponential growth of digital technology, ubiquitous internet connectivity, and proliferation of smart devices — all of which create a deluge of data that holds a competitive advantage for anyone that can quickly and accurately understand it — is enabling a fourth industrial revolution.

Welive in a period of the global expansion of technologies that are slowly changing our way of life on the scale of human life, but at lightning speed on the scale of world history. Real estate, which is quite conservative in nature, is also influenced by various technological trends. Along with the already established “FINTECH”, we are increasingly hearing the term “proptech”, which is a derivative of two English words: property (real estate) and technologies (technologies). Proptech literally means technology in real estate. In fact, it is both an industry and a set of innovations designed to change the way we explore, rent, buy, and use real estate.

Tableau Software as data visualization tool for non-dev users. Advantages and disadvantages.

According to the WHO, around 15% of people all over the world live with some kind of disability. There are four main categories of disabilities, and each of them require specific technologies, tools and programs for the disabled person to be able to take full advantage of the benefits of the Internet.

Learning data science from the basics is pretty similar. I can tell you because I was in this situation before. I dived into data science a few years ago, having no idea what exactly it is for and how to learn it. What I knew was that data science is about solving problems and it was going to be ‘the sexiest job of the 21st century’. I was young and naive so I went for it. Afterward I must admit that I don’t regret it. Anyway, this text is not about why you should become a data scientist but how to become one. If you were told similar things and you wonder how the hell to start doing this ‘sexy data science stuff’ and how to find your first job, I’ll try to help you a bit.