#app softwares

[nitor-infotech]

Low-Code Development Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide

In a world where rapid innovation and digital transformation are paramount, traditional software development methods may often lead to bottlenecks and delayed project timelines. Here, low-code development emerges as a solution, allowing organizations to build applications quickly and efficiently through visual interfaces and minimal coding. 

Wondering how low-code development differs from traditional methods? Read on to explore the differences, key stages, and strategies for a smooth low-code experience. 

Why choose Low-Code Development? 

Here’s a table explaining why many prefer low-code development over traditional methods: 

Hope you now ha’ve a clearer understanding of your next steps! Now, let’s explore the key stages of the low-code development journey. 

Key Stages in the Low-Code Development Journey 

Navigating the low-code development journey involves several essential stages to ensure successful application creation. Let’s break down these stages using the example of developing a mobile fitness application. 

1. Identify Core Processes and Data Requirements: Before building your fitness app, it’s crucial to clarify the core processes that will drive user engagement. For instance, you might want to include features like workout tracking, diet logging, and user progress monitoring. Mapping out these processes helps you determine the data needed, such as user input, activity metrics, and nutritional information, in this case. 

2. Design Intuitive User Interfaces: Next, think about how users will interact with your app. For a fitness application, you’ll need user-friendly interfaces for logging workouts or meals. Low-code/ no code platforms enable you to design these interfaces effortlessly using drag-and-drop functionality, allowing you to create customized fields that cater to user needs, such as exercise type, duration, and calorie intake. 

3. Develop Functional Features: With your processes defined and interfaces in place, it’s time to construct the app. Low-code development empowers you to build robust features without extensive coding. For example, you can integrate a workout schedule that automatically adjusts based on user preferences, leveraging pre-built components to save time while enhancing functionality. 

4. Test Rigorously Before Launch: Before launching your fitness app, thorough testing is crucial. Simulate user interactions to identify any technical issues or bugs. Low-code development platforms often provide testing environments where you can evaluate app performance under various scenarios.  

5. Launch and Maintain with Ease: Once testing is complete, you’re ready to launch your fitness app. Low-code solutions simplify this process, allowing you to publish your application on various app stores with just a few clicks.  

Additionally, these platforms facilitate ongoing updates and feature enhancements, enabling you to respond quickly to user feedback and keep your app relevant in a fast-paced market. 

Onwards toward knowing about the hurdles and ways to dodge them! 

Strategies for Overcoming Low-Code Development Challenges 

Here are three common challenges along with their solutions to help you navigate the low-code journey effectively: 

a. Limited Customization 

Challenge: Low-code platforms may restrict customization, making it difficult to meet unique business needs. 

Solution: Choose a flexible platform that allows for custom coding when necessary, enabling tailored solutions without compromising speed. 

b. Integration Issues 

Challenge: Integrating low-code applications with existing systems can be complicated, risking data flow and compatibility. 

Solution: Select platforms with robust integration capabilities and APIs to facilitate seamless connections with other systems. 

c. Governance and Security Concerns 

Challenge: Increased access to development can lead to governance and security challenges. 

Solution: Implement strict governance frameworks and security protocols to manage user access, data protection, and compliance effectively. 

That’s all! By following these key stages and addressing the challenges in your low-code development journey, you can streamline your processes and create impactful applications that meet your user’s needs. 

Learn more about cutting-edge tech developments with us at Nitor Infotech. 

[peterkothe]

BLOODBORNE

Some Hunter fan art to get things ready for the October season!

I’m a bit late to this party, but better late than never!

(Also I made this a a little while ago but slipped my mind to post it here!)

Update: I removed the extra tags of other From Software games to avoid confusion.

[dammjamboy]

BETTER CALL SAUL!

[bizarrelittlemew]

Ed Babygirl Teach for @blakbonnet 😌💗

Meow, where do i even start. you blow me away with your talent, humor, and kindness. getting to know you has changed my life for the better, i don't know where i'd be without you. i can't imagine (or remember) a day going by where i haven't talked to you. you make this fandom a better place to be. enjoy Ed being cute and pretty and i hope you have a great birthday! 💗💗💗

[nixcraft]

The best free software

[helielune]

people come and people go, but i stay (ghostride)

[lemon-russ]

By jove I think I finally made procreate dreams work for something. I love flipbook animation, Procreate is great for flipbook IF you only use one layer. Dreams is great for video editing, but is abysmal for drawing (no lasso tool!! Its been like a year!!!!) BUT if you drag and drop animations from procreate to dreams, it lets me basically use dreams as layers for animation like I wanted. Finally, I can not regret the 20$ spent on this stupid app lmao.

Here's Leman, the ears and tail are separately animated, and it also lets me mess with timing! Prob sounds like nothing to everyone else but I'm delighted lmao.

[artemisblackwing]

If you hate capitalism, or just really like free stuff that's cool, check this out:

Have any of your gotten frustrated by Google's Play store? If so, check out F-Droid

It's a store that has open source apps which are described honestly by their creators because they're not trying to sell you something. It actually lists "anti-features" of apps right after the "features" list so you know all the flaws too.

I found the Saber notes app on it, which is actually also on Google Play but is drowned out there by all the other more annoying less functional apps.

[variksel]

youtube ads becoming first one 5-second ad then two 5-second ads in a row or one 15-second ad then a million unskippable ads in the middle of videos instagram quietly inserting one ad in-between every 5 or 10 ig stories then 2 in-between 4 ig stories not to mention the new reel- and explore page ads. a quiet tumblr ad banner at the top of your dash then photo ads in-between posts then video ads then video ads in-between every 3 or 5 posts that play audio automatically while youre trying to read a textpost. the most popular, paid subscription, news apps adding ads between their articles, then in articles, then paywalling new articles further with a new "news +" subscription and putting ads in those as well. once every 15 tweets there being an ad, then every 5, then theres also an ad if you scroll to the replies. you cant look at tweets without logging in anymore, theres just no option for anon scrolling. facebook ai mining on instagram, facebook ai profiles hyping up ai generated photos im fucking going insane ai temu ads and gallery app ads and printer app ads and higher subscriptions while still seeing ads and i cant fucking do this anymore!!!!! its fucking shameless and worst of all its silent and nobody talks about how half the things we see anymore are fucking ads and we dont own a single thing we pay for and companies can just randomly raise their prices through the roof and nobody says anything about it

[danisha-tdh]

Frick.

I tried to edit this one and took many hours to finish. Though, I was actually wanna do the background but my tablet is gonna be dead and only 1%, and also it's 1 am in my place. Anyway, here's the video which is high resolution-

[praxis-app]

Check out the new app icon designs for Praxis — a blend of neo-brutalist color schemes and network concepts

join the praxis discord - praxis github

[datamined]

Not sure where to ask this, so im posting here as well as some forums BUT:

Basically I really love using Figma for making interactive menus. I have used Figma for mocking up websites and mobile apps before at my job, and in my odd time I’ve taken to using figma to prototype and make sketches of things like UI and flowcharts for the game my friends and I are developing. And even more recently I prototyped a fully custom, nice-looking, interactive character sheet for my character in the current campaign im playing.

Now, It’s got me thinking: I would really, really love to build custom character sheets for people as a side job as its something i genuinely enjoy doing. But the problem is, figma will not exist forever and I have foreseen that it might be a pain to build someone a prototype and I am the sole person to make updates whenever their character levels, they get new gear etc and I don’t really like the idea of forcing people to make an account for a tool they wont want to learn or use outside of the prototype i send them. Additionally, Figma prototype is ultimately not ideal for more distinguished and specific character sheets as I’d like for it to be.

For example, I would love to make buttons that a user can tap to mark how many death saves they have succeeded or failed, I want the user to be able to mark for inspiration and conditions, etc. I know I could possibly feasibly make it work all inside one scrollable frame, but the way I prefer to set up the character sheets requires navigating to different frames with buttons.

What other good alternatives are there? I like to make these character sheets for mobile use (phones and tablets) so should I jump to app development? I don’t mind learning new or more complicated softwares, just as long as the software is free, there’s a free trial long enough for me to learn the gist of the software, a single larger purchase for a license for a good amount of features, or the cost for subscription is low. Is Godot a good software to use for this? My team is learning godot anyway for our game as we were discouraged from Unreal Engine.

[desktopdinosaur]

Sorry if you have answered this before but, I was wondering what do you use to animate? Or what drawing app/software do you use?

Hello! No bother- I should probably make some kind of intro with this stuff-

But I won’t-

For drawing I use Ibis paint x, the free version- 

For frame by frame animation I mainly use flipaclip,

And for tweened animation I use alight motion

but I’ve been using toon boom more recently and might switch? Probably not- I heard toom squid is also really good

For editing I use a mix of alight motion and capcut

Capcut is really good for basic editing like camera movements or colour corrections

Alight motion is for the heavier stuff, compositing, adding rim lighting and shadows

Tip. If you don’t want the alight motions watermark just export it twice, one with the water mark on the bottom and one with it on the top

Than add those video to capcut with one being an overlay and use the mask tool to cut out the watermark for one of the videos-

Sorry if that sounds confusing-

[filmnoirsbian]

august 2023

bleeding white by the avett brothers

[maypop-the-dragon]

PSA: Free Software

Reading this may really save your time, privacy, and money! Reblog or share to spread awareness!

Folks often use software that’s expensive and sometimes even inferior because they don’t know there are alternatives. So to those unfamiliar: basically, free and open-source (FOSS) or "libre" software is free to use and anyone can access the original code to make their own version or work on fixing problems.

That does not mean anyone can randomly add a virus and give it to everyone—any respectable libre project has checks in place to make sure changes to the official version are good! Libre software is typically developed by communities who really care about the quality of the software as a goal in itself.

There are libre alternatives to many well-known programs that do everything an average user needs (find out more under the cut!) for free with no DRM, license keys, or subscriptions.

Using libre software when possible is an easy way to fight against and free yourself from corporate greed while actually being more convenient in many cases! If you need an app to do something, perhaps try searching online for things like:

foss [whatever it is]

libre [whatever it is]

open source [whatever it is]

Feel free to recommend more libre software in the tags, replies, comments, or whatever you freaks like to do!

Some Libre Software I Personally Enjoy…

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is an office suite, much like Microsoft Office. It includes equivalents for apps like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, which can view and edit files created for those apps.

I can't say I've used it much myself yet. I do not personally like using office software except when I have to for school.

OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is, as the name suggests, a video editing program. It has industry-standard features like splicing, layering, transitions, and greenscreen.

I've only made one video with it so far, but I'm already very happy with it. I had already paid for a video editor (Cyberlink PowerDirector Pro), but I needed to reinstall it and I didn't remember how. Out of desperation, I searched up "FOSS video editor" and I'm so glad I did. There's no launcher, there's no promotion of other apps and asset packs—it's just a video editor with a normal installer.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image editor, much like Photoshop. Originally created for Linux but also available for Windows and MacOS, it provides plenty of functionality for editing images. It is a bit unintuitive to learn at first, though.

I've used it to create and modify images for years, including logos, really bad traceover art, and Minecraft textures. It doesn't have certain advanced tech like AI paint-in, but it has served my purposes well and it might just work for yours!

(Be sure to go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Colors. I have no idea why that's not enabled by default.)

Audacity

Audacity is an audio editing program. It can record, load, splice, and layer audio files and apply effects to them.

Audacity is another program I've used for a long time. It is not designed to compose music, but it is great for podcasts, simple edits, and loading legacy MS Paint to hear cool noises.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file manager and archive tool. It supports many archive types including ZIP, RAR, TAR, and its own format, 7Z. It can view and modify the contents of archives, encrypt and decrypt archives, and all that good stuff.

Personally, I use 7-Zip to look inside JAR files for Minecraft reasons. I must admit that its UI is ugly.

Firefox

Firefox is an internet browser, much like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Safari. While browsers are free, many of them include tracking or other anti-consumer practices. For example, Google plans to release an update to Chromium (the base that most browsers are built from these days) that makes ad blockers less effective by removing the APIs they currently rely on.

Aside from fighting monopolies, benefits include: support for animated themes (the one in the picture is Purple Night Theme), good ad blockers forever, an (albeit hidden) compact UI option (available on about:config), and a cute fox icon.

uBlock Origin

As far as I know, uBlock Origin is one of the best ad blockers there is.

I was on a sketchy website with my brother, and he was using Opera GX's ad blocker. Much of the time when he clicked on anything, it would take us to a random sponsored page. I suggested that he try uBlock Origin, and with uBlock Origin, that didn't happen anymore.

Linux

Linux is a kernel, but the term is often used to refer to operating systems (much like Windows or MacOS) built on it. There are many different Linux-based operating systems (or "distros") to choose from, but apps made for Linux usually work on most popular distros. You can also use many normally Windows-only apps on Linux through compatibility layers like WINE.

I don't have all four of these, so the images are from Wikipedia. I tried to show a variety of Linux distros made for different kinds of users.

If you want to replace your operating system, I recommend being very careful because you can end up breaking things. Many computer manufacturers don't care about supporting Linux, meaning that things may not work (Nvidia graphic cards notoriously have issues on Linux, for example).

Personally, I tried installing Pop!_OS on a laptop, and the sound output mysteriously doesn't work. I may try switching to Arch Linux, since it is extremely customizable and I might be able to experiment until I find a configuration where the audio works.

Many Linux distros offer "Live USB" functionality, which works as both a demo and an installer. You should thoroughly test your distro on a Live USB session before you actually install it to be absolutely sure that everything works. Even if it seems fine, you should probably look into dual-booting with your existing operating system, just in case you need it for some reason.

Happy computering!

[nando161mando]

Stop using blatant, monopolistic, persistently worsening malware, and switch to Firefox 🦊

https://prism-break.org/en/

https://12ft.io/

https://www.removepaywall.com/

https://www.hackthissite.org/