Introduction to CareKit

Thursday, 12 May 2016

CareKit is a software framework created by Apple, for creating apps that help people better understand and manage their health. It provides customizable modules to record and display health-related data. This article gives a technical presentation of CareKit, and introduces the various modules available to build your app. Read on...

How to Manage Participant Consent with ResearchKit

Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Obtaining the participants’ consent is a very important process for medical study apps. It is one of the first actions performed by the participant, and it enables legal compliance for all the data managed by the app. This article will describe the different ResearchKit classes available to configure, present, and analyse the consent of the participant. Read on...

Advanced survey navigation with ResearchKit

Monday, 14 March 2016

Designing surveys with ResearchKit can be as simple or as complex as you need it to be. This article focuses on navigation. In particular, how to build non-linear surveys with ResearchKit, with custom and dynamic navigation rules. Read on...

How to create surveys with ResearchKit

Thursday, 3 March 2016

ResearchKit provides rich, yet easy-to-use, surveys for medical study apps. It offers templates for basic questions and specialized answers, with different types of values (text, number, dates, even images), and constraints (free-form, multiple choice, ranges). This article will help you create a simple ResearchKit survey, then introduce how it can be customized to fit specific needs. Read on...

How to build an activity dashboard with ResearchKit

Friday, 26 February 2016

Participants’ commitment is crucial for medical studies, and one of the best ways to keep people interested in a ResearchKit app is to offer a great dashboard. Read on...

Advanced ResearchKit project setup

Friday, 12 February 2016

In our article “How to setup a ResearchKit project”, we have detailed the process of creating and configuring an Xcode project to build a ResearchKit app. Once you get comfortable with this workflow, it becomes interesting to combine it with more advanced techniques, to improve its efficiency and reliability. Read on...

How to setup a ResearchKit project

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

ResearchKit is a great framework to help you build an engaging mobile experience, but it’s also fairly complex, especially if you are new to iOS development. This step-by-step guide will help you setup your first ResearchKit project. Read on...

How to create a new ResearchKit “Active Task”

Monday, 27 April 2015

Learn how to create your own “Active Task” for ResearchKit, the new framework for medical research apps by Apple. Read on...

Deploying the Zotero WebDAV server on heroku for development and tests

Monday, 9 September 2013

Zotero offers the possibility to synchronize your documents on a WebDAV server. This article will show you how you can setup a WebDAV server on heroku, for development and tests purposes around the Zotero platform. Read on...

Run your SaaS Product in Enterprise Mode

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

It is common to deploy web applications into the cloud. It is, however, much less to deploy them on your customer’s server too. Let’s see how we achieved that. Read on...

MendeleySDK update

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

There are many opportunities for scientists to interact with Mendeley and its Open API. Today, we are releasing a new version of our MendeleySDK, to make it even more accessible for iOS and OS X apps. Read on...

SZNAltmetric first release

Thursday, 4 April 2013

We are releasing the first version of SZNAltmetric, an Open Source Objective-C client for the Altmetric API. Read on...

Using the Mendeley API in ruby

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Mendeley provides a public API for developers to retrieve some of their data and use it in third-party applications. Here’s how to make authenticated API calls in ruby. Read on...