Category: Interactive Media
Using Gitlab to set up a CI/CD workflow for an Android App from scratch
Tim Landenberger (tl061) Johannes Mauthe (jm130) Maximilian Narr (mn066) This blog post aims to provide an overview about how to setup a decent CI/CD workflow for an android app with the capabilities of Gitlab. The blog post has been written for Gitlab Ultimate. Nevertheless, most features are also available in the free edition. The goal…
Multiplayer TypeScript Application run on AWS Services
Daniel Knizia – dk100@hdm-stuttgart.deBenjamin Janzen – bj009@hdm-stuttgart.de The project CatchMe is a location-based multiplayer game for mobile devices. The idea stems from the classic board game Scotland Yard, basically a modern version of hide & seek. You play in a group with up to 5 players outside, where on of the players gets to be…
Progressive Web Apps – Wer braucht noch eine native App?
Beispiele zum Einstieg Progressive Web Apps sind schon weiter verbreitet wie man denkt. Auch große, innovative Unternehmen Twitter, Airbnb, Spotify oder Tinder setzen auf Progressive Web Apps. Abb. 1: Eine Auswahl von Progressive Web Apps [1] Wer sich ein tolles Beispiel anschauen möchte, dem empfehle ich https://riorun.theguardian.com/ (auf mobile) zu testen. Nach einiger Zeit erscheint…
Evaluating and Visualizing Statistical Bot Data
The idea Video game streaming has taken over a big part of the commercial video game scene with Twitch being its biggest platform. Viewers are able to communicate with other viewers and streamers through the chat, or watch their previous streams or highlights. These highlights are made by streamers creating short clips of their favourite…
JavaScript Performance optimization with respect to the upcoming WebAssembly standard
Written by Tim Tenckhoff – tt031 | Computer Science and Media 1. Introduction Speed and performance of the (worldwide) web advanced considerably over the last decades. With the development of sites more heavily reliant on JavaScript (JS Optimization, 2018) , the consideration of actions to optimize the speed and performance of web applications grows in…
Mobile Security – How secure are our daily used devices?
Nowadays, the usage of mobile devices has become a part of our everyday life. A lot of sensitive and personal data is stored on these devices, which makes them more attractive targets for attackers. Also, many companies offer the possibility to work remotely, which results in storing confidential business information on private phones and therefore…
Single Page Web Applications
(Originally written for for 143206a Entwicklung von Rich Media Systemen in 07/2019) Intro There are two fundamentally different concepts in web application development: Single-Page and Multi-Page architectures. This article explores the different approaches and explains some of the development concerns of single page architectures, at the example of how to handle the browser history, search…
Web Performance Optimization for Continuous Deployment – Move fast and don’t lose performance
The performance of websites today is a decisive factor in how many users visit them and thus how much money can be earned from them. The impact of this fact is further enhanced by the widespread use of mobile devices and the speed of the mobile Internet. To counteract the development of heavyweight websites, web…
DevOps, Interactive Media, Mobile Apps, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System EngineeringContinuous Integration & Deployment for a Cross-Platform Application – Part 1
When we started the project “Flora CI” for the lecture “System Engineering”, we planned to deal with Continuous Integration. As an important aspect of software engineering all of us have previously been involved in projects where code of developers had to be merged and builds had to be automated somehow. Anyway we felt we could…
Take Me Home – Project Overview
Related articles: ►CI/CD infrastructure: Choosing and setting up a server with Jenkins as Docker image ►Dockerizing Android SDK and Emulator for testing ►Automated Unit- and GUI-Testing for Android in Jenkins ►Testing a MongoDB with NodeJS, Mocha and Mongoose During the winter term 2017/2018, we created an app called Take Me Home. The purpose of the app is…
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