Back in July, Joe and I travelled across from Novoda's Liverpool office to Manchester for ThoughtWork’s day long conference, XConf. One of the great features of XConf, is that it is also run in Hamburg a few days earlier. This is an interesting way of running a conference, as
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Over the past two weeks at Novoda we’ve been playing around with Apple’s ARKit features, and we had tons of fun building demos with it, even though a few colleagues were wondering why we were walking around holding our phones up. Now we want to share our findings
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In this article we investigate the current state of things for the more popular iOS and Android cross-platform frameworks. Read on to get a definitive answer on what each framework can and cannot do, and how they compare. The ultimate goal of a cross-platform framework should be to enable a
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With software becoming evermore present in our private and professional lives it is probably not surprising that software applications, with all their weaknesses, have also become increasingly interesting to hackers. There exist many different ways to hack applications and crack accounts, e.g. eavesdropping or sniffing network traffic, social engineering
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This week I had the pleasure of attending iOS Dev UK, in the lovely Aberystwyth on the Welsh coast. Here’s my thoughts on the conference, including a look at some of the topics that were on offer and what could be improved for next year. Having only been to
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As a software engineer building Android apps, I inevitably run into problems with server API’s not designed with mobile clients in mind. In this post I’ll explain how we can use Firebase Cloud Functions to clean up and transform those API’s responses before they reach our app.
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SCLConf is for software craftspeople for whom delivering software on time simply isn’t enough. Read on for some insights into crafting software at Novoda. This is a cross-post from the Software Craftsmanship Conference London 2017 website, a quick Q&A session with our Head of Engineering: Paul Blundell.
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At Novoda we find it extremely important to measure the efficiency of a team and the quality of our work. To do so, we need tools that help us demonstrate our capability and competence in developing trustable and powerful software, as well as analyzing the code we deliver. Code Analysis
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MakeFest Liverpool is a family-friendly event celebrating low level technologies, hardware, hacking and making. We participated again with a stand at the 2017 event and built two fun Internet of Things games to try and engage those attending and learn more about Android Things for ourselves. So here's our review
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