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ARFest: The most WondARful App of the year

 In an augmented reality world, winter holiday decoration has become more fun and ReARistic than ever! ARFest is a brand new mobile app available on iOS and Android Devices. ARFest lets you decorate your real environment using your device’s back camera. Install the app to: -Add realistic Winter Holidays Ornaments-Save the images to your […]

Panayiotis Kotrokois

Waterfall vs. Agile Software Development

Having been in the software development business for the past 15 years, I have seen firsthand the rise of the Agile methodologies in software development and the sudden distaste against what is colloquially called the “Waterfall” model of software design. The Agile development values proclaim the following: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over […]

Thanasis Politis

7L International’s First Review on Clutch

Software development plays a crucial role for businesses in determining competitors and becoming more competitive in the market. Some of the key benefits of it are overall experience, productivity, accessibility, and more.  As a business develops, the data and space it needs also increase. That’s why you need to have the best and understanding development […]

Nontas Ravazoulas

7L has been selected as one of the Top 30 New York City software development agencies

7L International has been selected as one of the Top 30 New York City software development agencies by DesignRush. We’re very proud that a great online guide like DesignRush compared the best professional companies and agencies in the New York City area and selected 7L International as one of them. DesignRush after reviewing 7L International […]

Nontas Ravazoulas

Pathfinding with Swift and SwiftUI

Like all good stories, this one starts with a quest as well. Make a board game with SwiftUI.Trust me, once you find the right parts, it makes sense, tapping into State, conditional rendering and some good old fashioned algorithms makes the whole thing tick nicely. Read more on Medium

Mike Dobekidis

7L Presents a New Platform to Boost Remote Decision-Making in Zurich Securosys Conference

Create a secure framework that will enable your organization to streamline decision-making and automate the approval/verification process. Zurich, Switzerland September 29th, 2020 As a partner of Securosys and sponsor of the annual Securosys Developer Conference, 7L International had the opportunity to present the TSB / Approval Framework to Securosys stakeholders and partners. “Participating in Securosys […]

Nontas Ravazoulas

Making your iOS apps inclusive with UIKit and SwiftUI accessibility

APP ACCESSIBILITY Pretty much everyone uses smartphone apps, including people with disabilities. Building accessible apps help them use them. So let’s create apps that leverage the power and simplicity of iOS’ assistive technologies and adapt our apps to make them accessible to all, regardless of their physical or learning abilities, and by structuring their interface for accessibility […]

Dimitris Tsiflitzis

Create Explosive Particle Effect for iOS with SCNKit

This is the story of a humble App until they met a powerful particle effect that added a so much needed “wow!” effect. In this tutorial, we will create a cool exploding effect for a 3D SCNNode. The User Interface way On our XCode project, we create a new Group (with a folder) named particles and we […]

Mike Dobekidis

The Morning Standup Ceremony

Some of us have our rituals that kickstart our days. For plenty of teams out there, their morning standup meeting has become just that. Since how you begin your day determines whether it will turn out to be a great day or not, a good standup meeting with your team will have positive effects. What is it? […]

Dimitris Tsiflitzis

Common cryptographic operations in Swift with CryptoKit

What is CryptoKit? Apple’s CryptoKit is a new (as of summer ’19) library available from iOS 13 and onwards that performs cryptographic operations securely and efficiently. Its features include: A (nice) Swift API. Access to cryptographic functions. Ease of use for easy to misuse functions. An improvement over legacy systems. Existing cryptography solutions on iOS […]

Dimitris Tsiflitzis

Facebook Instant Games & Firebase, store & view pending challenges

Photo by Nhu Nguyen on Unsplash Pending requests/challenges is a great feature to have, especially for multiplayer games, however Facebook SDK doesn’t really give us many tools to go on, currently the only way to see any pending challenges is via the native Facebook menu when calling chooseAsync And this is where this article comes into play. In order […]

Mike Dobekidis

Making an iOS Audio Player the Easy Way

“A black-and-white shot of headphones on a wooden surface” by Corey Blaz on Unsplash Because puzzling together bits and pieces from around the internet is not fun! The Quest: Create an Audio player without external libs (well almost) I have scoured the lengths of the known google space to find all available information about making an Audio Player […]

Mike Dobekidis