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GoodRequest

At GoodRequest, we believe that the future is not created by chance; it needs to be consciously built. That is why we regularly come together for an internal Hackathon, where we have the space to break free from routine. Together, we create, experiment, and seek new ways to bring value to our clients as well as to ourselves.

🚀 Hackathon 2025: Build to last in practice.

Štylizovaná postava s logom GoodRequest namiesto hlavy skúma App Intents ikonu s lupou. Za ikonou sa nachádza úryvok kódu na tmavej obrazovke, všetko na jasne modrom pozadí.

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Lukáš Kubaliak

App Intents is a framework introduced in iOS 16 that makes it easy to create shortcuts, automations, and voice commands for Siri in our apps. It allows you to improve how users interact with your app without opening it.

App Intents tips and tricks: How to make iOS apps more accessible than ever

Ilustrácia postavy s logom GoodRequest namiesto hlavy, ktorá sa naťahuje k App Intents ikone na tmavom pozadí.

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App Intents have been with us since iOS 16, bringing improved integration of apps and their slick features with Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight search, and Widgets. They allow apps to integrate selected functionality directly with the operating system, resulting in an improved user experience, comfort, and increased efficiency when using the app.

App Intents: How to make your app more accessible through Siri, Spotlight, and Widgets

Ilustrácia dvoch osôb s logom GoodRequest miesto hlavy, sediace na kvádroch, držiace mobilné zariadenie. Medzi postavami sa nachádza logo Apple, okolo ktorého sú ikony reprezentujúce rôzne funkcie.

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Ilustrácia - v strede logo Apple, okolo ikony, ktoré majú znázorňovať funkcie iOS.

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Marek Vrican

Learn how to increase retention, engagement, and improve the user experience of your iOS app by leveraging features like App Clips, Live Activities, widgets, App Shortcuts, and Rich Push Notifications. 

How to build a successful iOS app using overlooked features

Ilustrácia osoby s logom GoodRequest namiesto hlavy, ktorá stojí vedľa smartfónu, na ktorom je tlačidlo "play".

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Jan Kandráč

The element of gamification is an interesting way to increase the appeal of an app to the user. Whether it's for a passionate collector of rewards, a competitive person, bored person, or for someone who wants to earn a discount by playing. There are many paths of gamification. Just creating an avatar or tracking progress is enough for many users to achieve the goals the app encourages them to. However, in this context, we will discuss exclusively about games.

Embedded games in mobile apps: Make your app more attractive

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Peter Šuly

In this article, we will take a look at some of the technologies that we in Goodrequest use on a daily basis to make Android development more efficient, effective, and at least a little more enjoyable.

Our Android tech stack for mobile app development

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A* is one of the very important algorithms for understanding how you can improve graph traversal (finding the most optimal path). We will improve Dijkstra's algorithm, which we showed last time. It searched for the shortest path through the graph without taking into account the position of the target. So it made a circle around the starting point.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Algorithms #6 - A* Search Algorithm 

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Paulina Slaviková

One of the very common requests across various Android applications is video playback. The Exoplayer library is one of the most popular libraries designed to accomplish this task. In this article, we will look at how to use it and implement it in Jetpack Compose.

Jetpack Compose Basics - How to use Exoplayer library to play videos

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Today we will move into the area of so-called search algorithms. With all search algorithms, we will inevitably work with graphs. All search algorithms are looking for the best/shortest path through the graph. We will not dive in deeply into the theory. We will try to show everything in pictures. Let's call this form of learning learning by leafing through the leperole 🙂

The Introduction To Artificial Intelligence Algorithms #5 - Dijkstra

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Tomáš Paronai

When I was starting with development on Android, I was totally lost. If not for help from senior android developers in my first workplace, it would take some more time to wrap my head around. Now is my time, to share some wisdom.

You want to start developing apps for Android? Let me help you

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All the optimization algorithms that we have tried so far modified one randomly generated solution, modified it and, under certain conditions, accepted it for the next "round". The algorithm that await us now work on a slightly different principle. Instead of one solution, we will generate several random solutions and they will influence each other.

The Introduction To Artificial Intelligence Algorithms #4 - Genetic Algorithms

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Simulated Annealing is inspired by annealing in metallurgy. It consists in heating the metal to a high temperature and then slowly cooling it. In this way, the internal structure of the metal is first broken and then very slowly "repaired". This results in a metal that has significantly better properties than at the beginning of the process.

The Introduction To Artificial Intelligence Algorithms #3 - Simulated annealing

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Bruno Grinč

Through our Kotlin Slovakia user group, we brought you the fourth online event for Android developers. With the topic "Problem of immutability in Java, Kotlin and other languages", which was presented for the first time by our experienced Android developer Ján Kandrač.

🚀 Hackathon 2025: Build to last in practice.