Meet The CraftCodeCrew

This blog began in 2018, created by a group of students from DHBW (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg) in Karlsruhe, Germany. At the time, we were all employed at major German enterprises, spending half our time on-site and the other half in university.

Originally called Billige Plätze (Cheap Seats) due to our habit of sitting in the back row of the classroom, the blog was soon renamed to CraftCodeCrew. After graduating in 2018, we pursued different career paths, and in 2020, three of us came together to found CraftCoders.

Please note that the older posts were written in our early 20s by non-native English speakers. You may notice some youthful tone and minor language errors. We've chosen to keep these articles as they were originally written. We hope you enjoy reading them!

OpenCV & Tesseract: Android Computer Vision for Dummies

Sören HemkenAndroid, C++, Computer Vision, Java, LanguagesLeave a Comment

Introduction I got to know OpenCV as I investigated into computer vision solutions for a little startup called robodev GmbH (see here). There I developed possible ways for real-time object recognition and computation of angle and position of the recognized object. I fell in love with C++ and its possibilities to realize high-performance applications. Awhile I started digging further into … Read More

My date with Dart and Flutter

Cem FreimoserAndroid, iOS, Self ImprovementLeave a Comment

Motivation …Hey, guys! It’s time for another blog post from me. This time I want to write about my experiences with Flutter and Dart. Every software developer is regularly confronted with new concepts, frameworks or languages, so am I. I learned to program with Android 2.0. Yes, I’m getting old… Meanwhile, I am not so active in the Android world … Read More

Xamarin: Tabbed Page Navigation

Danny NatemeAndroid, C#, iOS, Tutorials, XamarinLeave a Comment

If you have a background in native mobile development and for some reason had to switch to Xamarin, you are probably familiar with that “oh yeah, it doesn’t work this way here” feeling. Having to find new solutions for problems you haven’t even considered to be problems before is what I would call business as usual in Xamarin. Call me … Read More