Meta Spark Discontinued, Now What?! Sacha Van den Wyngaert, Dec 17 2024 As of January 14, 2025, Meta Spark will officially shut down. While this may seem like a setback, at our Dev Studio Glitchi, we see this as an exciting opportunity to embrace the future of cross-platform AR/VR experiences. WebGL ThreeJS AR VR
AppFoundry’s Secret AI Weapon: v0 by Vercel Sacha Van den Wyngaert, Nov 27 2024 At AppFoundry, we’ve been experimenting with v0 by Vercel, an AI solution that is changing the way we build digital solutions. AI
UIKit based apps for Spatial Computing Stijn Ergeerts, Jul 07 2023 Porting already existing UIKit based iOS applications to Apple's latest addition to the device family, the Apple Vision Pro. iOS Swift Xcode
Three.js retro arcade effect using post-processing Sacha Van den Wyngaert, Jun 13 2023 Using the power of post-processing, any scene can be given a retro arcade look with very minimal overhead. WebGL 3D ThreeJS Postprocessing
iOS push notifications voor Progressive Web Apps Bart Vandeweerdt, Apr 14 2023 Sinds iOS 16.4 zijn push notifications voor PWA op iOS eindelijk een feit. Wij testten het voor u uit. iOS Push Notifications React PWA
AppFoundry grows! Bart Vandeweerdt, Feb 28 2023 AppFoundry grows: meet Fabrikate, Division Zero and Glitchi !
Getting started with Apple Wallet and Passkit AppFoundry, Jun 17 2022 The service side to power a digital loyalty experience for your company with Apple Wallet. iOS Architecture
AppFoundry Mol Poll Sacha Van den Wyngaert, Mar 28 2022 When the team started a poll and got carried away... JavaScript React AppFoundry Design WebGL 3D
Web app copy and translations - Making life easy for our customers AppFoundry, Sep 18 2020 We use the collaboration tool Confluence by Atlasssian to allow the customer to fill in their copy in a nice re-usable template. i18n JavaScript Confluence
Displaying Rich Text on Android Using The Contentful SDK AppFoundry, Jun 15 2020 How to nicely display Rich Text provided by Contentful in an Android app. Android
Gatsby Multi Website Deployments AppFoundry, Mar 27 2020 Customising the Gatsby build process to split up website deployments JavaScript React Gatsby
Enterprise Node.js on AWS (serverless) AppFoundry, Sep 11 2019 My experiences creating enterprise serverless backends on AWS with Node.js JavaScript AWS
Manual signing of requests in iOS with Amazon Cognito Identity Pools (AWS Signature version 4) Dennis Litjens, May 10 2019 When your backend gets created separately from your frontend, AWS does not provide a standard way to use the AWS SDK and make signed calls. I tried to find a workaround for this by signing the calls manually and making use of the library: AWS... iOS Swift AWS
Session Management in React Single Page Applications AppFoundry, Nov 24 2018 This is the second part of the tutorial regarding React SPA and Authentication and Session Management. In this second part, our goal will be to take control of the session timeouts, without having to change the configuration settings on Azure. JavaScript React Azure
Authentication with ADAL in React Single Page Applications AppFoundry, Nov 24 2018 One of the key features in Single Page Applications is a little thing known as authentication. The ability to login and make authenticated network requests to a backend API are often required, but not always easy to implement. JavaScript React Azure
Direkt - DRYNavigationManager made Swifty AppFoundry, Oct 08 2018 Back in 2016, we published NavigationManager as an in-code alternative for Storyboard, where my colleague Jens Goeman introduced DRYNavigationManager, an in-code navigation framework for iOS. Since then the framework's been successfully used in ... iOS Swift
React Native Storybook AppFoundry, Jan 19 2018 A few weeks ago I gave an internal presentation about Storybook for React Native. Storybook allows you to create stories with your components which increases development speed, improves reusability and allows you to create prototypes ... iOS Android React Native Mobile
STOP THE FRAME DROP - Texture (AsyncDisplayKit) AppFoundry, Jan 19 2018 The last couple of days I've been working with Texture (AsyncDisplayKit), it's a cool framework that basically makes your app run more efficiently. It's all about the performance gains. Texture works with nodes which are thread-safe. Unlike views ... iOS
Student seminar - Intro to React Native AppFoundry, Nov 08 2017 A couple of weeks ago I gave an introductory presentation about React Native to students of the PXL school in Hasselt. As React Native is the next big cross-platform mobile development framework and is a hot topic, we had a lot to talk about ... JavaScript React React Native
ARKit tutorial: Star Wars TIE fighter AppFoundry, Jul 26 2017 A lot of interesting things were introduced at WWDC this year. Among them we find ARKit, the new framework that allows developers to create augmented reality mobile apps. This framework will, no doubt, open an entire world of possibilities ... iOS
React Native Multi-Language Support AppFoundry, Mar 27 2017 A tutorial on how to support different languages and locales in your React Native app, additionally as a user-specific setting. i18n JavaScript Localisation React React Native
GDG DevFest Belgium 2016 Bart Vandeweerdt, Oct 26 2016 Last weekend, AppFoundry’s Android devs Filip & Simon gave two talks at GDG DevFest Belgium 2016. Accessibility Android Conductor GDG
Fastlane for Android AppFoundry, Jul 22 2016 While improving our continuous delivery system we decided to streamline the process for iOS and Android. Since our iOS team enjoyed using fastlane we decided to give it a try for Android as well. Android CI Continuous Delivery Fastlane
WWDC 2016 AppFoundry, Jul 11 2016 It’s this time of the year again, the time I usually get all cozy in front of my Apple TV. Only this year I got the opportunity to be there, and boy what an experience! iOS iOS10 WatchOS 3 WWDC2016
Enterprise WebApps in ExtJs AppFoundry, May 12 2016 AppFoundry is a company with a strong focus on mobile development. About 4 years ago we started developing Sencha Touch applications. A little while later a client (Bayer) requested our assistance in development of some in-house desktop app... ExtJs Html5 Sencha
Cross-app communication and plugin architecture in Android Siebe Sysmans, Mar 11 2016 Earlier this week I had the pleasure of presenting my Android Plugin Architecture talk at Mobel, the Belgian Mobile Developer User Group.Have you ever wondered how extensible apps like DashClock or Muzei work? This presentation explains the ... Android Mobel
Apple TV Tech Talks London AppFoundry, Jan 18 2016 The new Apple TV is here and so Apple decided to organize talks at 11 places all over the world to spread the word. At AppFoundry, we were lucky enough to be invited at one of these events.In this blogpost I’ll talk a bit about each subject that... iOS AppleTV tvOS
Intercepting iOS Notifications AppFoundry, Jan 12 2016 ‘In the interest of science’, we wanted to find out if we could intercept and evaluate all notifications arriving on an iOS test device. While investigating, we came across the Apple Notification Center Service. This service allows bluetooth ... iOS Push Notifications
How we do iOS apps: Part 3 - Debug Drawer AppFoundry, Jan 08 2016 This is the third post in a series where we describe how be build iOS apps at AppFoundry.In this part we’ll explain how we add debug settings screens to our applications. iOS Architecture Debug
NavigationManager as an in-code alternative for Storyboard AppFoundry, Jan 07 2016 Imagine a world in which you can commit and push your changes to a feature branch, create a pull request, and never having to fear a merge conflict on a storyboard.The solution? Don’t use them. iOS Framework Navigation Storyboard
Testing on Mobile Bart Vandeweerdt, Dec 10 2015 On December 9th we presented at one of the meetups organised by the Mobel user group. Topic of the evening was ‘Testing on Mobile’ and of course we just couldn’t resist the call for speakers ;). iOS Android Mobel AppFoundry testing vrt
Android Studio Live Templates Siebe Sysmans, Dec 07 2015 Android Studio has a lot of nice features to make the lives of us Android developers a lot easier. One of those features is Live Templates.Raise your hand if you don’t know what a Live Template is. Got your hand up? Great, keep reading... Android Android Studio Live Templates Timber
DRYUtilities 1.5.0 - iOS utility library AppFoundry, Dec 03 2015 We’re proud to announce DRYUtilites 1.5.0. DRYUtilities is our iOS library of useful utility classes that we need in most of our projects. It includes categories on Foundation and UIKit to make it easier to: iOS Apple SoFa Utilities
How we do iOS apps: Part 2 - Test Driven Development AppFoundry, Nov 12 2015 In a nutshell TDD (Test Driven Development) can be explained in a single line: write a test before you code. However a common mistake is that TDD is not about writing a full test suite, but about writing your code in small ... iOS TDD Test Driven Development
Devoxx Scheduler v5.0 released AppFoundry, Oct 28 2015 Since 2011 we’ve been delivering the official Devoxx scheduler app. The app is your go to conference companion before, during and after the conference. It allows you to check the schedule, plan your devoxx, take notes, get info about the speakers,... iOS App Devoxx
GearMonster Introduction & Roadmap Jan Van Coppenolle, Oct 12 2015 GearMonster is a pet project at AppFoundry… it is a case for continuous research & development and evaluation of our software factory for Android. Android Architecture
How we do iOS apps: Part 1 - Dependency Injection AppFoundry, Oct 02 2015 To see the advantages of Dependency Injection, we need a small example. Let’s say we are an App Development company, and we want to create iOS apps. To do this, we first of all need a designer. A designer will create designs based on a set of ... iOS Dependency Injection
How we do iOS apps AppFoundry, Sep 16 2015 At AppFoundry we love crafting software that fits the needs of our customers. Since all apps are different, they often require different solutions for different problems. There are, however, some basic principles and solutions that we apply in ... iOS Architecture
Getting creative at the KBC innovathon AppFoundry, Sep 15 2015 Mobile banking, a convenience to us all, already rocks with mobile payments being fast, easy and super-accessible. However having an app does not mean you can rest easy. In our fast moving digital world it is key to show off your new designs ... AppFoundry Banking Creative Hackaton Mobile Monkeyshot
Android MVP, Retrofit & Rx Jan Van Coppenolle, Sep 14 2015 In this article we’ll discuss the benefits of using Rx over Callbacks in (but not limited to) a Model-View-Presenter application architecture.It is assumed you are already familiar with Retrofit and the concepts of Android MVP and RxJava ... Android Mosby MVP Retrofit RxAndroid RxJava
VRT: The team and development process behind the new 'deredactie.be' app AppFoundry, Jul 07 2015 VRT recently released their brand new ‘deredactie.be’ app. A news application that inherits the style and concept of the existing mobile site and the experience of a mobile app, basically resulting in much faster news-updates and videos ... Continuous Delivery vrt Scrum Team
Belfius Direct Wear Bart Vandeweerdt, Dec 15 2014 Late November 2014, Belfius Bank announced a first in the Belgian mobile banking world: the 'Belfius Direct Wear' smartwatch application. Android Mobile Android wear Belfius Wearables
Google Play Services Dynamic Security Provider AppFoundry, Nov 18 2014 Recently, Google Play Services 5.0 was released 1, and among the big list of API changes and new features we also found a Dynamic Security Provider.The intention here is that apps can now use this API to install a dynamic security provider, which ... Android Google Play Services Security
Devoxx 2014 Bart Vandeweerdt, Nov 12 2014 This week, Devoxx Belgium again welcomes around 3.500 developers from 40 different countries to attend a 5 day development conference, including 200 speakers, making it one of the biggest Java conferences in the world! Devoxx Mobile Scheduler Beacons
Ionic framework on a Windows Phone AppFoundry, Oct 16 2014 I recently built a Hybrid app for Android and iOS with the Ionic framework. Without too much trouble I used the native resources of the device like GPS, contact list and share options successfully. The look and feel of the app is the same on ... Html5 Angular Cordova Ionic Phonegap Windows Phone
Objective-C dependency injection in 4 easy steps Bart Vandeweerdt, Sep 26 2014 In this article we’ll show you how to easily apply dependency injection (DI) in your code with Reliant, our open-source DI framework. iOS Dependency Injection Reliant Xcode
Top 5 libraries every iOS developer should know about AppFoundry, Jul 29 2014 Libraries, we all know them and we all use them. They make our life as developers easier and let us win days of precious dev-time. In this post I would like to guide you through my personal top 5 Objective-C libraries. iOS Mac OS X
iOS multi-environment configuration AppFoundry, Jul 04 2014 When developing apps, you might need different things in different contexts. An example could be different URLs to connect to in AdHoc distribution versus App Store release. XCode provides a very easy to use mechanism to make these things ... iOS Xcode
Swift Optionals AppFoundry, Jun 08 2014 This blog post is all about Optionals, a language concept baked into Apple’s Swift programming language. iOS Swift
