Our blog - November Five

How updates in iOS 13 and Android 10 will impact your app

With both iOS 13 and Android 10 boasting a whole host of new features to delight users, improve their experience, and protect their privacy, here are the ones you should focus on to make sure your app isn’t left out in the cold.

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(Taking a) REST with Apollo Client

Apollo Client is amazing when it comes to fetching data from any GraphQL server using any modern front-end framework. But how about using Apollo with a REST API? In this tutorial, we show how to successfully get them to work together!

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How to evaluate a client's tech architecture

Have you ever struggled with the best way to screen and visualise a customer's technical stack before starting a project? We share our approach, based upon Simon Brown’s extremely useful C4 model.

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Design like a developer with Anima App and spacings

Ever struggled with dynamic spacings in Sketch? We've got a workaround, using Anima App and our own plugin!

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Reflecting on the past, with our mind set on the future

At the dawn of our new year, while still in a daze of the old one, we gladly our reflection on 2018, and our aspirations for the future at November Five.

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WKWebView redirect with cookies

For one of our native iOS projects, part of the functionality is implemented using a web view. In these web views, the users need to be authenticated, which happens by injecting authentication cookies. But in one specific case, this user authentication information got lost for no clear reason. We set out to find a solution – let’s show you how we did it!

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Fixing common performance problems in React Navigation

An exciting project in React Native for one of Belgium’s finest soccer teams turned into an opportunity to fix some React Navigation performance issues. Let us show you how we did it.

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Announcing Spencer: the mobile workplace assistant

We're proud to announce that we're launching a new venture: Spencer, the digital workplace assistant for employees!

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Telenet invests in Spencer

Only 5 months after Spencer’s launch as a company, all of us at November Five and Spencer are proud to announce that we successfully secured a Series A round investment! Telenet, a leading telco operator and part of Liberty Global Group, will drive the next iteration of Spencer’s strategic growth.

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Phillip Vandervoort, former Proximus & Microsoft exec, joins November Five

An exciting update for us! Phillip Vandervoort, former Chief Consumer Market Officer at Proximus and CEO at Microsoft Belux and Portugal, becomes our first Executive Strategic Advisor and Member of our Board.

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Vincent Bruyneel, former SVP of Strategy at Liberty Global, becomes our CFO

Our leadership team gets another big gun on board. Vincent Bruyneel, former director at Deloitte and executive at Telenet and Liberty global, joins us as our CFO and Member of our Board.

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Apple’s missing manual: How to set up a Developer Account

In this how-to guide, we’ll show you the steps of setting up your Apple Developer account. From requesting your D-U-N-S number to being ready to submit your first app.

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Spencer collects 2.5 Mio Euro to accelerate growth

Since the launch of the digital workplace assistant, Spencer teamed up with Microsoft and gained the trust of large companies like Proximus, DEME, Delhaize, Q8 and Port of Antwerp. For this new investment round, Spencer can count on the support of all its existing shareholders and financial partners, who confirm their trust and belief in the company’s vision.

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Creating dynamic screens with protocol-oriented MVVM in Swift

We developed a more streamlined methodology to translate component-based designs into easily adjustable pages and views – with minimal duplicate code.

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Our symbols guidelines in Sketch

We defined an approach on how to set up and organise symbols. Making sure a designer could quickly and completely understand which components are used throughout a product, and how they behave.

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