While I was working on our toolkit library Desmond I stumbled upon a problem when defining the TypeScript definition for a function pipe.
Typescript: Function composition and recurrent types
My automatized task management
As a project manager working for a development agency I need to manage several tasks every day. The environment which I am working in is really dynamic and it is so easy to forget something. I am constantly receiving emails from clients and I am also in a day to day cooperation with developers and other co-workers. Every channel I use for communication generates tasks. So the question is how you can manage all these task without going insane.
Mobile app with SAP Cloud Platform machine learning ready in a night and a day?
German SAP had chosen Ackee as one of the five participants of a hackathon that run during the SAP CONNECT 2018 conference. The goal was to demonstrate what the teams were able to create with the new SAP Mobile Platform SDK and the whole SAP Cloud Platform.
Integrating kin blockchain into a mobile app
Two years ago, my colleagues participated in a weekend hackathon and came up with an idea to create a Rock-Paper-Scissors game for Facebook messenger. The real-world RPS game is simple and pretty much everyone knows how to play it. The mobile app didn’t aim to add cool new ways to play the game and tried to be as simple as possible.
React Hooks – new stuff for cool kids
Have you noticed this huge buzz about React Hooks in last few days/weeks? If you are as interested in it as we are and you haven’t hesitated and have watched the Dan Abramovs’ talk (the first one ever on React Conf), you won’t find anything new in the following article. On the other hand, if you’ve never heard about it or you haven’t got a chance to explore it more, this article may speak to you.
RxOAuth2: reactive OAuth approach for Android, pt. 2
TL;DR: with colleagues from Ackee we developed RxOauth2, an open source library to handle OAuth with RxJava streams. You may take a look at it directly or read this blog post (part 1 is here) to find out why and how we implemented it.
How to deal with different environments in Xcode
All our apps are developed in several different environments. Let’s have a look at what we call an environment, what the motivation to have different environments in one app is and what type of inconveniences it could bring. We’ll also unscover a part of our technological stack which helps us to do it the way we do it. ?
Data dependencies management in Redux based applications 1/2
I have been working with React for about four years now. It has been quite a ride and for the whole time the data dependencies management has been an important topic for me. In this article, I would like to show you my journey with the data dependencies management and the result I came up with.
RxOAuth2: reactive OAuth approach for Android, pt. 1
TL;DR: with colleagues from Ackee we developed RxOauth2, an open source library to handle OAuth with RxJava streams. You may take a look at it directly or read this blog post to find out why and how we implemented it. The second part is coming soon.
Android High Performance Audio APIs ?
Performance matters. It is especially true for audio performance, where you want the audio to be as smooth as possible. In this article I will have a look at various available options you can use in your high performance audio app on Android. But first, we need to understand the motivation behind high performance audio. Why is it important? What problems are we trying to solve? What apps are we actually talking about?
