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Several months ago, we were tasked to implement a built-in program guide a built-in program guide (also called an EPG) in their Android TV app. It should list all the channels from top to bottom, with the programs on the channels laid out from left to right on a timeline. There are some apps on Google Play, which have a similar program guide built-in, so I was hoping that there is a library or a Leanback component which we could build upon.

The Jetpack Navigation component is a very welcome add-on that makes the development of Android apps so much easier. No more committing Fragment transactions, and no more hassle to make sure that the up- and back button give the user the expected experience, not to mention the trouble of having to maintain a concise back stack for deep links and finally: How did we survive for so long without that visual navigation graph?

Apple tried to offer a head start on writing SwiftUI apps by providing us with some very nice looking tutorials. The documentation however is still severely lacking and the framework still seems in full development, noticeable by broken/missing functionality and some pretty big changes in the past betas. To fill some of the gaps in SwiftUI I wrote my own library for displaying sheets which gave me a deeper understanding of SwiftUI. In this article I will share some of my findings.

Initially conversational commerce revolved mainly around chatbots, but with the proliferation of smart speakers the 'conversation' part in conversational commerce is becoming more natural, so these days conversational commerce is (according to its Wikipedia definition): "commerce-commerce via various means of conversation", with live chat, messaging, chatbots and virtual assistants as primary examples.

We were asked by RTL Nederland to make a companion game for their new game show on TV, BankGiro Miljonairs (the dutch version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?). This article will sum up the positive and negative aspects of using Unity while I have worked on this application.

Recently I ran into some issues with JavaScript testing in one of our projects. Since I had a hard time figuring out the solution and the internet didn’t help me enough, I thought I’d share my solution in a blogpost.

The past couple of months we at Egeniq had been working on the brand new Android TV app for Pathé Thuis, a video-on-demand service in the Netherlands, and now that it is finally available on Google…

Last week I was building a console command on top of Laravel that could be running for a long time. It was a long-running process that runs a queue worker. It reads from a queue, does some processing…

What is Serverless? It’s a toolkit that helps you deploy and operate serverless architectures to various cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform. There are quite a few ways to…