Category: Swift
What is Native Mobile Development? (Benefits, Tools, Resources)
What is native mobile application development? When talking about native mobile app development, it’s good to first understand the landscape. There are approximately 6.5 billion smartphone users worldwide, and that number is growing. As smartphones become more ubiquitous and, at...
A Guide to Mobile Cross-Platform Development With Couchbase
Mobile app usage is increasing to an amazing extent worldwide. In fact, TechCrunch recently reported that users now spend between four and five hours on mobile apps every day – that’s nearly a third of most peoples waking hours. And...
OIDC Authorization Code Flow for Client Authentication in Couchbase Sync Gateway [Part 3 of 3]
Couchbase Sync Gateway supports OpenID Connect or OIDC-based client authentication. In this context, clients may be Couchbase Lite clients that synchronize data with Sync Gateway over the Internet using the websockets-based replication protocol or they could be web frontend or...
OIDC Implicit Flow for Client Authentication in Couchbase Sync Gateway [Part 2 of 3]
OpenID Connect (OIDC) is a popular client authentication mechanism supported by Couchbase Sync Gateway. In this context, clients may be Couchbase Lite clients that synchronize data with Sync Gateway over the Internet using the websockets-based replication protocol or they could...
Peer-to-Peer Database Sync with Couchbase Lite
Couchbase Lite 2.8 release announced support for out-of-the-box, enterprise-grade peer-to-peer database sync solution. The new capability allows direct sync between Couchbase Lite enabled mobile and/or non-mobile embedded apps without the need for a cloud-based control point. In this post, we...
Architect Offline-First & Couchbase Edge Computing Solutions
Release 1.0 of Couchbase for mobile was announced in 2014, making it the industry’s first NoSQL mobile database for offline first applications. Offline first is an application development paradigm that ensures that the functionality of the apps is unaffected by...
Advanced Sync with Couchbase 2.8 for Mobile and the Edge
We’re pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Couchbase Lite 2.8 and Sync Gateway 2.8 platforms. This groundbreaking release introduces significant enhancements to our sync technology for disconnected and distributed cloud deployments. You can learn more about the...
ANN: Couchbase Lite Developer Build 003 (Obj C, Swift, .NET)
I am very pleased that Couchbase Lite Developer Build 003 is now available for download for Objective C, Swift and “.NET”. Database queries have changed significantly in this release. Couchbase Lite 2.0 uses semantics based on N1QL query language defined...
Couchbase Mobile Mini-Hack Challenge
If there is one thing you should learn this year, it’s how to build mobile apps that work both online and offline. You will be blown away with how awesome your apps are once you start building them this way. ...