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Building resilience with a therapist

posted in Productivity on April 12, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

When we sense something isn’t quite right with our body, or something has changed that we are unsure of, we get it checked out. We do so in a preventative way – our body and health is what keeps us going, and we don’t want anything sneaking up on us. Maybe you’ve got a bit… Continue reading →

Exploring Android Q: Bubbles

posted in Android on April 4, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

A few weeks back we saw the announcement of the Android Q beta release 🎉 With this version of Android comes a collection of exciting changes which we need to get our apps ready for. In this set of articles I’m going to be diving into each one of these so that we are fully prepared for… Continue reading →

Exploring Android Q: Sharing Shortcuts

posted in Android on March 26, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

A few weeks back we saw the announcement of the Android Q beta release 🎉 With this version of Android comes a collection of exciting changes which we need to get our apps ready for. In this set of articles I’m going to be diving into each one of these so that we are fully prepared for… Continue reading →

Exploring Android Q: Location Permissions

posted in Android on March 18, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

Last week we saw the announcement of the Android Q beta release 🎉 With this version of Android comes a collection of exciting changes which we need to get our apps ready for. In this set of articles I’m going to be diving into each one of these so that we are fully prepared for getting our… Continue reading →

Exploring Android Q: Settings Panels

posted in Android on March 14, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

It’s here! Yesterday we saw the announcement of the Android Q beta release 🎉 With this version of Android comes a collection of exciting changes which we need to get our apps ready for. In my next set of articles I’m going to be diving into each one of these so that we are fully prepared… Continue reading →

Handling pricing changes with the Google Play Billing Library

posted in Android, Payments on March 12, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

Sometimes things change. And in these cases, it’s likely that you’ll want to be able to make adjustments to reflect these changes. In the context of applications, we may offer subscriptions – and it’s common for the prices of these to change along the way. In this case, we’ll want to adjust the prices for… Continue reading →

Chords, Conversations and the Kotlin Client Library

posted in Actions On Google on March 7, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

I recently launched a side-project I had been working on for the last several months, Chord Assist. Whilst this guitar is made up of many different moving parts, at the centre is the brain of the conversational tool. Whilst I made use of dialogflow to build this functionality, I needed to make use of some… Continue reading →

Flutter CI with Bitrise

posted in Flutter on February 28, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

If you weren’t already aware, I’m already a big fan of bitrise – and when I heard they were adding support for Flutter, I gained even more love for the product. Naturally I wanted to take this for a spin – so I decided to setup Bitrise CI with my Voice flutter project. Let’s take… Continue reading →

Exploring the View Pager 2

posted in Android on February 22, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

It’s likely when working in the Android realm you’ve come across the ViewPager class at some point. This view allows us display a collection of fragments or views to display to the user in a swipe-able format – especially popular within on-boarding and content display screens. This component has been with us in the Android… Continue reading →

Chord Assist: Building an accessible smart guitar for the mute, deaf and blind

posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2019 by hitherejoe 0 Comments

In 2017 I created an Android Things project called BrailleBox — a Braille News Reader for the partially sighted. I’m really passionate about helping others and using the knowledge I have to do so, even if it means learning new things to help achieve that goal. This was the main driver for creating Braille Box, but I… Continue reading →

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