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Location hashtags

While people already tag their posts with hashtags derived from city or other location names (e.g. #Berlin, #CentralPark), these hashtags aren’t always useful: if you want to see content from just your neighborhood in a large city, or content that is local to your current position in a rural area that does not have a […]

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Open Location Code

Open Location Code (OLC) is a geocoding system that encodes latitude/longitude coordinates into a short string of typically 9-12 characters, the idea being that these strings can be communicated better than the latitude/longitude coordinates themselves. Individual codes are also called plus codes, because the OLC specification mandates a ‘+’ character after the eighth code digit […]

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How to use FirebaseUI for Android

Firebase is an app development platform by Google, offering various services for Android, iOS and the web. The services themselves are supported by a set of open-source libraries like FirebaseUI Android. According to the Firebase Open Source website, FirebaseUI is an open-source library for Android that allows you to quickly connect common UI elements to Firebase APIs. […]

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Hello, World!

This is the beginning – or, if you’re reading in reverse chronological order, the end. All beginnings (and endings) are hard, so without further ado: I’m Andreas and I’ve been fascinated by computers and related technology for as far as I can think back. This might become a place where I put longer texts about […]

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