Working through some back end Firestore code last week, and wanted to create a single query interface to my repository. The Firestore query interface doesn’t have a single query method, but rather a number of different query methods on a CollectionReference such ‘whereGreaterThan’ or ‘whereEqualTo’. Each of these CollectionReference query methods have the same...
Month: April 2018
Kotlin typealias
Type alias allows you to create an alias for any Type. Why would we want to create another name for Int or String? Its all about readability Consider that you are storing a time, or a currency amount? In java days we would store them: String amount = 250 Int elapsedTime = 120 How...
Celebrity Tipper Round 6 – Kev Joyce
In our weekly celebration celebrating the AFL season and the launch of the updated ESPNfootytips app that Seventh Beam worked on alongside Codeware and ESPN Australia, we have entered a Celebrity Tipper into the Footy Tips global competition. Each week we will be inviting various industry leaders to provide their tips for the round...
Mobile app Magic
At Seventh Beam , MAGIC , can happen everywhere and anywhere and to the clients that entrust us to bring their mobile app vision to life we always extend an open invitation to come and regularly meet face to face with their team.. Yes THEIR mobile app development team!! Each and every one of...
Celebrity Tipper Round 5 – Frank Arrigo – AWS
In our weekly celebration celebrating the AFL season and the launch of the updated ESPNfootytips app that Seventh Beam worked on alongside Codeware and ESPN Australia, we have entered a Celebrity Tipper into the Footy Tips global competition. Each week we will be inviting various industry leaders to provide their tips for the round...
Sharing what you love
I love where our office is, smack in the middle of Fitzroy. I love the range of cafes, bars and restaurants, but the key, as with most things, is the people. Coming out of the office last week, I saw a note attached to the handlebars of my bike. I assumed it was either...
Celebrity Tipper Round 4 – Alan Sharvin – Tech Guru
In our weekly celebration celebrating the AFL season and the launch of the updated ESPNfootytips app that Seventh Beam worked on alongside Codeware and ESPN Australia, we have entered a Celebrity Tipper into the Footy Tips global competition. Each week we will be inviting various industry leaders to provide their tips for the round...
Celebrity Tipper Round 3 – Natasha Norton of Accuteque
In our weekly celebration celebrating the AFL season and the launch of the updated ESPNfootytips app that Seventh Beam worked on alongside Codeware and ESPN Australia, we have entered a Celebrity Tipper into the Footy Tips global competition. Each week we will be inviting various industry leaders to provide their tips for the round...
Where’s Wally/Waldo/Location Tracking?
For the first few days of April 2018, Google added a “Where’s Wally/Where’s Waldo” (depending on the users’ home country) to their Google Maps app in the location sharing feature. With an instantly recognisable image overlay to hint at the game, the game asked users to opt in to the location tracking feature, and...