In Ishinomaki Hackathon (which is held in the north to Tokyo every year after the tragic Tsunami strike), our team created a “moving” Google Home. Below is a movie taken just after we have succeeded in integrating all the components late at night on the 2nd day of the hackathon.

In the last three sessions, we have made a very accurate location tracking app. In this blog post I use this app and examine the battery consumption. I’ve been using my app while commuting my office by bike everyday and checked the battery consumption. My commuting path is around 6…

In the last two sessions, we added a background tracking engine + map drawing to our sample code. Having a short run with the sample app makes you feel it already works like a normal running app as Runtastic. But you might encounter some situation where your app doesn’t work…

In the last post, I’ve explained how to get locations both in the background with proper criteria. Before explaining much deeper location topics, I am going to take a time to implement map feature on the sample app.It is because many location-related apps have a map. …

Tracking a user’s location is the core feature of apps such as Nike+, Pokemon Go, and Uber. I’ve been making a running app from the time of iPhone3.1, and it took a lot of tries and errors to get accurate location information under various environmental condition. …

We demonstrated our product “InAppTranslation” in Slush 2016 last December. After coming back to Tokyo, I wrote a report in my Japanese blog, but forgot to write it in English. Here is how I applied, prepared, and traveled to Slush last December. I hope this blog is going to be…

Recently while I was playing around with Data Binding newly introduced to Android, I found I could utilize this to provide an instant way to localize Android apps to any languages at runtime. After a few days of coding I made “InAppTranslation for Android” which is an open source free…

In the last three sessions, we added a background tracking engine + map drawing to our sample code. Having a short run with the sample app makes you feel it already works like a normal running app as Runtastic. But you might encounter some situation where your app doesn’t work…

In the last three Medium posts, I’ve explained how to get locations both in the foreground and background with the best accuracy. Before explaining much deeper location topics, I am going to take a time to implement map feature on the sample app. It is because many location-related apps have…