Smart systems, data analysis and software technology
Providing human support engineers to handle incoming queries about products and services can be both costly and limited in its scalability. This is particularly challenging for self-published mobile apps and small to medium-sized businesses, as they often lack the financial resources to offer human support. I personally experienced this issue when I published my own […]
With more than 4 Million shops WooCommerce is one of the most popular ecommerce solutions world wide. WooCommerce is an Open Source solution operating on top of WordPress and is therefore easily accessible to hundreds of millions of people. WooCommerce offers a wide range of features that are necessary to operate a successful ecommerce web […]
Android 11 onwards introduced several more restrictive policies for applications to access the local storage. It is necessary to request the users permission for access in the context of usage not only to declare the access rights in the Android manifest file. See the Android error message below: Some storage directories are accessible nevertheless, such […]
Within the last weeks, I thought about building a service for automatically answering incoming user questions by using a repository of previously answered questions. The benefit of such an automatic answering system is obvious, but as a foundation for that implementation, a trained text association model is needed. A large corpus of existing texts therefore […]
Getting insights into your users experience as well as into your real users behaviour is key within designing, implementing and delivering web applications as well as mobile applications. It’s common practice to monitor your web applications or mobile applications performance in production, to gain valuable insights about how well your application performs within your users’ […]
When I last visited Google Next conference in 2018, I could not really imagine how the world will change in the next 2 years due to the Covid crisis. Within weeks all on-site conferences and events were canceled and the communities lived on in virtual space. Same happened to Google I/O as it was canceled […]
Congratulation, you just finished implementing your first Android app and now you are looking forward to gain some decent revenue through selling your app within Google Play Store. One aspect that I came across very soon after publishing my first Android app within Google Play Store already 10 years ago is the importance of the […]
TabShop is the best, free Android Point of Sale (POS) app available within the Google Play Marketplace. Since more than 10 years, TabShop POS delivers reliable cashier service and invoice printing right within your own phone or tablet.Since its initial publishing the TabShop app was updated 191 times in order to keep up its stable […]
Google Sheets is a great tool for collecting and analysing your small business revenues and to manage your businesses stock lists. The additional advantage of using Google Sheets is that it comes with a seamless Google Drive integration, so that you don’t have to worry about backup or local device failure at all. No matter […]
It’s common knowledge today that seamless monitoring and observability of all your production software stacks is key for successful service delivery. Along with a tight integration into your CI/CD pipeline, service and software monitoring offers a lot of insights on what is going wrong during your build, test and release workflows and how to quickly […]