Over the course of a few months, various people at Novoda have experimented with technologies such as Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Image Recognition and more. We've written a lot about these topics and wanted to gather all our blog posts in one place for your ease!
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In this post, we will continue our intro into designing for AR by adding our models into the demo AR app and apply lighting, shadows, and animations! These are the most important things you need to know in order to achieve realism in your AR app.
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The very first steps of creating an AR app is getting your models ready for use. In this post we explain how to create models, animate them, and export them in an appropriate way for your AR app.
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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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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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