– or how I ended up hiding dirt in lockers and what I learnt from it in the process. — When I first set out in search of a temporary position within IT, eager to learn how to code, I figured it would be comforting to be working on something that was based on a binary wrong-or-right logic. With a background in marketing, I was longing for such a concrete…

The field of machine learning has evolved a lot during the last decades. Thanks to huge leaps in computing performance even mobile devices can perform object detection from a camera livestream at 30fps. One of the population groups who might benefit most from this, are in fact blind or visually…

Have you ever wondered how to structure your SwiftUI app and allow it to grow in a sustainable way? We did and still do. Meanwhile after having developed several (award-winning (1)(2)) SwiftUI apps, we think that we have found a good design pattern which fits our needs. …

GeometryReader is a great tool for creating custom layouts with SwiftUI. It enables you to pass geometry information to child views. However, when creating complex layouts you might want to pass geometry information to the parent or sibling views as well. Luckily you can use .overlay() to achieve exactly this. …

Data Labeling at scale is an important concern for an organisation since creating labels on large data sets by hand is often slow and expensive. Current state-of-the-art solutions for object labeling are done by humans. A typical approach is to use some sort of model-assisted labeling. The existing ML model…

A hands-on guide for mobile developers — It’s not often that you get to write an app specifically targeted at an audience with accessibility in mind. Yet, that’s exactly what we were lucky enough to do this year. In this article you’ll get to know our best-practices for designing accessible mobile apps and how to cleverly implement…

Recently, ESRI published their new mobile augmented reality ArcGIS runtime for Android and iOS. As the main railway company in Switzerland (#sbbcffffs), we do have digital twins of many of our assets. GIS is one of the technologies we use in many areas to work with them. …