When we first started building Jini, we imagined a future where your smartphone would behave as a sixth sense to a user. A world in which a mobile would become a context-aware device, capable of interpreting your behaviour and automatically understanding what you need. Although Jini isn’t all-knowing yet, by now she has an impressive…
The Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona has started, and we’re seriously proud and delighted to be a part of it. As winner of the Apps Marathon Belgium, Jini will be one of the finalists presenting at the Mobile Premier Awards, the reference for the mobile app start-up community The Mobile Premier Awards Finalist Jini-founder…
I’m publishing two scripts that may be of use to Android developers. Both of them can be found in our android-utils repo on GitHub. Ideally, we’ll be pushing a bunch of useful tools daily*. densityconv densityconv (Density Converter) is simple script that takes a density (ldpi, mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi) and a value (in dip) and…
Last week has been heavy, but also quite satisfying. Attending LeWeb’12 Paris as one of the semi-finalists of the Startup Competition has been a very good learning experience. And even though we didn’t make it to the finals, we are still happy to have attended.
Ever since we decided to build our app as intelligent as possible, we’ve been looking at how we could go beyond the check-in. Frankly, while building Jini we decided to get rid of the whole manual check-in thing altogether. There is no value in a check-in activity, so we shouldn’t bother the user with it…
A few weeks ago we received the news that we have been selected as one of the 16 startups in the Startup Competition. LeWeb Paris is one of Europe’s biggest tech conferences. The theme this year is “The internet of things”, or “Connected devices”. The semi-finalists will pitch their startup on December 4th and the 3…
While working on Jini, we don’t consider this actually to be a company. Of course we’ve got all the fancy papers and rolling office chairs to make it look like a company, but at the end of the day we’re just a room full of passionate people dying to make an impact on other people’s lives. We…
Great news! Our app won both the Jury and Public prize at the Appsmarathon. So thanks everyone for voting, we received no less than 45% of the 900 unique votes. *We’re impressed and grateful*
