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Marcin Mrugas

Marcin Mrugas

Android Developer at Snowdog

Unveiling the Mechanism: How Robots Recognize Faces and Pepper's Journey to Remember and Greet Familiar Visages

Today’s world is focused on face detection more than ever before. Just take a look at latest release of smartphones; most of them now allow you to unlock your phone with face, or at least capture the picture of someone potentially stealing your phone. Looking to social media, Facebook offers to automatically tag you and your friends, or find images in which you are included but not yet tagged. Snapchat is providing us with the ever popular face filters to make us look like a pirate or puppy. In Google Photos, we are able to group photos by similar faces to easily find all photos of our best friends. Finally, face detection technology has been involved in some controversial topics such as DeepFakes or FindFace.

Turning your Android app into a kiosk - Step by step tutorial

Kiosks devices have become an increasingly common sight in public places such as train stations, museums, and hotels. These devices can offer a range of functionalities, including information dissemination, communication, commerce, and entertainment. If you're an Android app developer, you might be interested in turning your app into a kiosk. This can be achieved by configuring it as a COSU (Corporate Owned Single Use) app or a Single-Use device. In this blog post, we'll guide you through the process of enabling kiosk mode and building a simple application for this purpose. Whether you're creating a public information kiosk or a self-service checkout system, this tutorial will help you get started.

How to turn your Android application into a kiosk

Nowadays, we find kiosk devices in more places than ever before. We use these at the train station, tourist information centers, shops, museums, hotels, post offices, and more. They usually provide an app giving useful information, the ability for communication, commerce, entertainment marketing or education. These are often equipped with a colorful touchscreen to facilitate user interaction.