A few months ago, Navigine R&D team started participating in Indoor Location & Navigation competition from XYZ10 and Microsoft Research. The purpose of the competition was as follows: organizers provided the participants with logs from hundreds of shopping centers, where visitors walked along specific routes. It was necessary to predict…

This is the Navigine Team and today we’d like to tell you about indoor navigation and positioning technology and also about the Open Source geolocation software for the given sphere. What is the system of indoor navigation and positioning about? We are all familiar with the GPS system that can define the location of objects based on satellite signals. But…

Continuing the discussion about Google’s limitations and how to bypass them — Today, I want to discuss WiFi scan throttling in new Android versions and how to avoid it. Previously, I wrote an article about a new scan mechanism on the recently released Android R. …

How answering questions on Stack Overflow and other platforms can be helpful if you’re working on a startup — Today, we want to digress a little from articles related to coding and talk about helping other developers and answering questions on different platforms like Stack Overflow, Quora, GitHub, Reddit, etc. I think many people already know that programmers provide a lot of support to each other and there are…

Writing custom rotate gesture listener for Android views — Hi there! In the Navigine team, we’ve been providing indoor and outdoor positioning mobile technologies that enable advanced indoor navigation and proximity solutions for eight years. In our previous article, we wrote about handling tap, pan, and pinch gestures in Android views using gesture detectors. It was quite easy to…

How wifi scanning has changed with the release of new versions of Android and how Google continues to limit developer opportunities — Hi there! In the Navigine team, we’ve been providing indoor and outdoor positioning mobile technologies that enable advanced indoor navigation and proximity solutions for eight years. Today we want to tell you more about WiFi scanning on different versions of Android devices and the restrictions you could meet during the…

How to use Android Gesture recognizers and handle view touch events correctly — Hi there! In the Navigine team, we’ve been providing indoor and outdoor positioning mobile technologies that enable advanced indoor navigation and proximity solutions for eight years. Well, it’s time to talk about a very interesting topic. Today we want to immerse you into the world of gestures. We have already…

Or simplified, writing your own TopSheetBehavior using androidx.* modules — Hi there! In the Navigine team, we’ve been providing indoor and outdoor positioning mobile technologies that enable advanced indoor navigation and proximity solutions for eight years. In the previous article, we told you about the Bottom Sheet Behavior and how to animate the button on top of it. Today we…

What each action mask means, empty pointers array and few words about the JNI & native parts — Hi there! In the Navigine team, we’ve been providing indoor and outdoor positioning mobile technologies that enable advanced indoor navigation and proximity solutions for eight years. Recently, we have devoted a lot of time to working with graphics on mobile devices and handling gestures. Today’s article will be devoted to…