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Offshoring app development can be cheaper and expand talent access, but you often get what you pay for. There can be quality concerns, project management issues, hidden costs, and misalignment with business goals. Time zone differences and language barriers can cause delays, while poor vetting may lead to subpar app performance. Without strong oversight, offshore teams may lack accountability or fail to align with the company’s vision. A hybrid approach, combining onshore leadership with offshore execution, can help mitigate these risks and ensure a high-quality final product.

Animations are key to a quality user experience. They serve a wide variety of purposes, including directing user attention and connecting user actions to results on screen. Animations make the experience of your app unique — they can enable a level of responsiveness and interactivity not possible in other mediums. To build better animations, they need to convey an improved sense of direct connection between user interaction and visual changes. One way to accomplish this is to make animations fully interactive.

If you’ve ever implemented a custom view controller transition by adopting UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate and UIViewControllerContextTransitioning in your view controller, you may have found that the result added unwelcome clutter to your view controller and wasn’t very reusable. This tutorial will show you how to build a reusable, standalone view controller transition by subclassing UIStoryboardSegue. You’ll see how the segue conveniently integrates with Interface Builder as a custom segue type and can be used in any UIKit app — no storyboard required.

Prototypes are created to save time, communicate more effectively and focus on how the product will actually work. Prototypes are often created early in the development process and are used for user testing or are better developed through code to understand the feasibility of a technology. Both are extremely important parts of the product development process. They help with the understanding of user flows, feeling out interactions, communicating the desired experience with the broader team, used to raise money and so much more. “If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth a thousand meetings” — IDEO