Artificial Intelligence

A software engineer's approach to neural machine translation

What we learned while building an online translator for the small language of Tigrinya

Frontend

Effortless security on the web

How to implement multi-device passwordless authentication on the web with the Web Authentication API

Android

The missing part of Android in-app updates

Prioritising in-app updates while Play Store support is not yet available

Web development

Our team's blessing: a living style guide

A case study on how to maintain large websites by using a living style guide

Android

Instant-appifying a large mature app

The challenges of adding an instant app to a five-year-old codebase

Web development

Making a Lighthouse Plugin work with Lighthouse CI

Learn how to do your custom page audits in GitHub Actions with Lighthouse CI

Backend

Why “Always use UTC” is bad advice

How to choose the correct representation for storing Dates and Times.

Backend

"A wild Demogorgon just wrecked your Kubernetes cluster"

Introducing a tabletop role-playing game as a fun training method for new team members at our Philips Hue project.

Android

Android Server Driven UI

How we were able to build a native Android app in record time as well as iOS and Web applications, by sharing business logic and UI components.

Internet of Things

Getting our 💩 together — literally

How we developed a load balancer for our company's toilets to recommend the cleanest loo to our colleagues.

Backend

Discovering Server Driven UI

Our story about how Server Driven UI has contributed to the success of classical music streaming service Primephonic.

Backend

Making sense of Redis’ SCAN cursor

In this blog post, I try to figure out why Redis returns those seemingly arbitrary numbers for SCAN commands.

iOS

Getting started with multi-window on iPadOS

A short step-by-step guide on how to convert an existing single window iPad app into a multi-window app.

iOS

Optionals in SwiftUI

How to use optional values in Apple's new SwiftUI framework.

iOS

Supporting “Sign in with Apple” in your UIKit app

How to implement iOS 13's new privacy sign-in tool to quickly onboard new users.

iOS

Apple's new Combine framework

Apple's take on Reactive Programming: check this first introduction if you want to know more about this fundamental building block.

iOS

Adapting to the new 'allow just once' location permission in iOS 13

At the WWDC19 keynote Apple announced two changes in the way location permissions will work in iOS 13. Avoid losing users over these permission optimizations by understanding these changes.

Backend

Programmatic Authentication with Google Identity-Aware Proxy

One-click deployment for Philips Hue firmware: in this blogpost I summarize the benefits of Google IAP and programmatic authentication.

Android

Implementing Dark Theme in your Android app

Android Q wants to be friendlier on the eyes by introducing a Dark Theme. This post explains how this new mode impacts you and your users.

Android

Diving into Jetpack Compose

Hands on with the new UI framework for Android apps, Jetpack Compose.

Android

Android Q – The breaking changes

Explore real examples of what happens to some of our Q42 apps from new media notifications and location permissions to navigation gestures.

Android

Try Jetpack Compose today

Jetpack Compose is an awesome new UI framework for Android. This step by step guide will help you get the pre-alpha up and running quickly.