Category: Technical
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Beyond Beta Tests: Collect Data for AI and Machine Learning
Over the past few months, we’ve seen more clients leverage the BetaTesting community (200,000+ participants) to collect real-world data to improve AI and machine learning within their product: Crowdsource pictures to improve image detection algorithms. A large car parts company in Europe crowdsourced pictures of car interiors from BetaTesting users to tag images for debris,…
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BetaTesting Test Design: How to Setup Your First Test Process
One of the most common questions we get asked about our test design process is: “How should I setup my beta test?” How many tasks should I give testers? How many surveys should I setup? There are a lot of different ways to setup your beta test, and it is usually driven by what you…
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Gradually Master Cross-Platform Mobile App Development: Learn Flutter and Dart as You Go
You’ve gotten started with Google’s Flutter SDK to build mobile apps on both iOS and Android, but what now? Here’s how to keep the momentum going and learn Flutter and Dart over time. Keep going after “getting started” This article is about how you might learn Flutter and Dart over time in a sustainable way,…
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Getting Started with Flutter SDK to Build Native Android and iOS Apps
The Flutter SDK allows you to build native Android and iOS apps, with advantages over other cross-platform methods. Interested? Here’s how to get started with Flutter. Google’s Flutter SDK is a relatively new way to build native mobile apps for BOTH Android and iOS. Since being able to quickly produce apps for both platforms’ app…
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How to Prototype a Scroll Shadow in Adobe XD
Adobe XD doesn’t provide scroll state settings or scripting, but you can still imitate scroll shadow behavior in your prototypes. Here’s how. Desired design Let’s say you’ve designed this scrollable screen. The header casts a shadow at all times when you run the prototype. But let’s say, for the purposes of keeping this article moving…
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Announcing ErliBird + Instabug Integration & the New Instant Bug Test
We’re happy to announce that ErliBird (Now BetaTesting.com) and Instabug have joined forces to make it easier than ever to recruit bug testers and get actionable bug testing results in as fast as one hour. On ErliBird, we have created a new Instant Bug Test package, which makes it easy to link ErliBird and Instabug.…
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Project Tips for When Your UI Design Includes ALL CAPS Text
From design and implementation to translation concerns, here are some tips for your project when your UI design includes ALL CAPS text elements. Whether you’re following a standard design language like Material Design, or have developed your own custom look and feel, your new website or app design might include UI elements that use uppercase…
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You Might Build Your Next App This Way: Cross-Platform With Google's Flutter
Google invests heavily in Flutter, a cross-platform framework for building native iOS and Android apps from a single codebase. Building an app for both iOS and Android If your business wants to create a mobile app, you likely want it to appear on both iOS and Android. Simply speaking, there are two ways to do…
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6 Reasons Why The Chrome Link Underline Change is Not So Hot
Google embraced a new CSS text property and made it the default Chrome link underline style in its Chrome browsers. This may not have been the right move. A few months ago, I was looking at a web page (minding my own business) when I noticed that the links looked odd to me. They were…
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Why Is Beta Testing Important?
Why is beta testing important now more than ever before? The product development lifecycle has changed dramatically over the past 10 years, and beta testing is no longer a phase that definitively ends shortly before product launch. Product launch was traditionally the end of the product development lifecycle: (1) concept (2) design (3) build (4)…
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