React Native -- A Tempting Quagmire
A recent experience being asked to look into a React Native mobile has clarified some of the questions I brought up in my last aritcle on React Native, lo those 2 1/2 years ago.
Creating A Google Home App Part 3 - Refactoring and Scoring
In the previous article we converted our very simple app into a version of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock. In this article we will refactor our game, and then add scoring so the app will keep track of your wins and losses
Creating A Google Home App Part 2 - The Game
In the previous article, Creating A Google Home App, I detailed how to get a very simple Google Home App up and running. Mostly it was about setting up the node project, the Google Actions project, but in the end you had an App that when you talked to it, it would say -- 'Hey Ma, It Worked!'. And while it wasn't much of an achievement, but I know I felt pretty cool when I got my Google Speaker in my kitchen saying things I wanted it to say. Somehow it felt more impressive that just having a website that dumped out HTML, and now in this article we are going to learn how to actually create something (somewhat) useful, and learn a fair bit more about the GoogleActionSDK.
Creating A Google Home App
A while ago I got an email from a Recipe Folder user asking how to get the Google Home integration working with Recipe Folder. I have no idea why they thought that there was an integration, but it got me thinking, maybe I should add one. I hadn't looked at Google Home or Amazon Alexa development before, but I thought it might be fun to add at least Google Home integration...
Flutter: A quick look at a new Cross Platform Mobile App Toolkit
Well over a year ago, Google (well, at least Google developers built it -- it's said to be made with 'contributions by Google and the community', introduced yet another Mobile Toolkit that allows building apps for both iOS and Android.