Notebloc is a Spanish app that scans, saves, and shares notes, documents, receipts, drawings, photos, and images of any type. It allows users to crop documents or images, and automatically corrects misaligned pages. Notebloc, which is now available worldwide and supports over 30 languages, has already been downloaded by more than 7 million users around the world.
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Notebloc's core functions are centered around documents. The integration of the HMS Core Pencil Engine into the Notebloc app offers specialized features such as brush effects, handwriting editing, stroke estimate, smart shape, and double-tapping. These advanced tools provide a superior handwriting experience. Now, users can effortlessly edit documents, by using the marker to annotate, mark up, and add notes to a file, and they can also unleash their creativity by adding sketches or diagrams. This is how Huawei's Pencil Engine allows Notebloc to bring users' best ideas to life.
Notebloc also integrates the HMS Core ML Kit text recognition service, which enables the app to accurately identify and extract text from images of receipts, business cards, and documents, and provide precise, and structured transcription of important information in text, greatly improving user satisfaction.
Teamwork Timeline:2013：Notebloc was founded in Barcelona, Spain
2021：In September, team meetings were held regarding co-development between Notebloc and Huawei. In November, the project began. Huawei's HMS Core DTSE team helped Notebloc's developers overcome difficulties, such as a lack of test devices and insufficient sample documents.
2022：In January, HMS Core was successfully integrated into the Notebloc app, and became available on the HUAWEI AppGallery.
Customer feedback:
STEM Alliance reported that Notebloc, one of the first apps in Europe to integrate Pencil Engine, was able to provide users with substantially improved note-taking services by working with HMS Core. More users can now access and use a myriad of editing tools, and can easily, and securely, scan and share documents.
The Notebloc team confirmed its intention to integrate other HMS Core capabilities in order to attract app users and increase monetization in the future.
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As a developer, you’ll know that mobile data is more expensive than ever, and this makes it increasingly difficult to attract new users. Optimizing your apps’ user experience and improving user loyalty are crucial to retaining users, and to do this, you need to personalize your app’s content, appearance, and style for different users.
Fortunately, HUAWEI Analytics Kit and Remote Configuration make this easier than ever.
What Is HUAWEI Analytics Kit
HUAWEI Analytics Kit is a free data analysis tool that you can use across a range of platforms (Android/iOS/Web) and on different devices (such as mobile phones/tablets). It automatically generates more than 10 kinds of analysis reports based on your users’ behavior and event data, so you can get a better understanding of your users and take a data-driven approach to marketing.
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Remote Configuration enables you to personalize your app’s content and appearance for different users based on the user attributes and audience groups you create in HUAWEI Analytics Kit. This can be done without even requiring users to update the app.
Application Scenarios of HUAWEI Analytics Kit and Remote Configuration
Ø With HUAWEI Analytics Kit's retention analysis function, you can monitor the retention rate of your app version. If you find that the latest version is more effective at retaining users, you can target those who are still using older versions and prompt them to upgrade.
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Grilling, stirring, baking, poaching… transforming ingredients into elegant dishes, cooking might be the most universal and enduring magic of human culture. But even so, making a simple pancake can be quite a challenge for a novice. With today's endless array of apps, there's no shortage of recipes at our disposal, for all tastes and diets. But if you're drawn in by the recipes of old and comfort foods, there's no app quite like Chefs'.
One-Touch Cookbook Digitalization
The creators behind Chefs' were a group of students from Warsaw University of Technology who are highly passionate about food, and were inspired in particularly by the dusty cookbooks in the basement. They hoped to create a handy culinary assistant that differs from any other cooking-related app on the market. Chefs', the fruit of their efforts, functions as a high-level digital cookbook for serious chefs and casual foodies alike.
In addition to offering a range of common services, such as searching and sharing functions, Chefs' also offers a unique one-touch image-based recipe generation feature, which enables you to take a snapshot or input an image from a cookbook, and be rewarded instantly with a clear, intuitive recipe on screen. This could spare you the endlessly tedious task of typing out recipes, and enables you to create a digital cookbook that can be shared and referenced with ease. Furthermore, the process of adding a recipe from an image is responsive and reliable, regardless of the network conditions.
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Chefs' leverages HUAWEI HiAI's state-of-the-art AI techniques, Text Image Super-Resolution and General Text Recognition, to accurately identify text blocks and fill in the blank spaces between with the corresponding content. Better yet, HUAWEI HiAI Engine is based entirely on the device, which means that the AI capabilities incur no server-related costs. The HUAWEI HiAI platform jumpstarted the development process, enabling Chefs' creators to forgo endless rounds of AI model training and the costly burden of server rents, enabling them to realize their vision – which resulted in the app winning the first prize at the Huawei AI CHALLENGE – Warsaw 2020.
If you can't wait to uncover the wisdom lurking in the yellowed, dog-eared pages of a family cookbook, or yearning to collect all of your recipes in a single place, you'd be remiss not to check out Chefs' on HUAWEI AppGallery.
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[July 15, 2021] Huawei launched HMS Core 6.0 today to global app developers, bringing multiple new open capabilities and updating some existing services and features. As of now, HMS Core (APK) on all user devices has been updated to the 6.0 version. You can access HUAWEI Developers anytime to get the new services and features.
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HMS Core 6.0 further opens up Huawei's advanced technologies in media, graphics, telecommunications, and other fields. For media apps, Huawei provides AV Pipeline Kit with preset pipelines for video super-resolution, sound event detection, and other media services to address audio/video app developers' pain points such as difficulties with capability building and high power consumption. In the graphics field, 3D Modeling Kit offers AI-based capabilities such as 3D object reconstruction and material generation for e-commerce and animation apps, making it possible to generate 3D models even with mobile phones as long as there is an RGB camera installed, bringing more fun to user interactions. This service is currently available to all Android device models.
In addition, Computer Graphics Kit debuts the "volumetric fog" feature powered by the volume rendering technique for dynamic lighting and shadowing fog effects on mobile devices, making indoor scenes more realistic for next-generation mobile games, especially for Cyberpunk-style mobile games. This feature is available to all Android devices supporting Vulkan.
In the telecommunications field where Huawei has gained a leading position, Network Kit has updated its AI-powered network environment prediction function so that network parameters can be optimized based on service network access rules and differentiated network requirements, thereby reducing apps' network latency by more than 20%.
HMS Core 6.0 also provides other services such as Membership Kit, Video Editor Kit, and Audio Editor Kit. You can visit the HUAWEI Developers website to find out more.
As a collection of Huawei's software and hardware open capabilities, HMS Core has always been developer-centric and is continuously opening up Huawei's core technologies and capabilities to more developers, providing a high-quality consistent experience for cross-platform and cross-device apps. HMS Core empowers you to develop Web apps, Quick Apps, and apps in Android and HarmonyOS running on phones, tablets, smart displays, wearables, and head units, using cross-platform development frameworks such as React Native and Cordova.
HMS Core 6.0, which was released globally on July 15, offers SmartCoder as part of HMS Toolkit, an intelligent programming assistant that's designed to make HMS Core integration seamlessly efficient, for developing innovative apps easier than ever.
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With SmartCoder, you'll be able to find official HMS Core resources (currently includes Account Kit, Ads Kit, Analytics Kit, IAP, and Push Kit) in Android Studio with incredible ease, without ever needing to switch between Android Studio and other interfaces – a document-free programming experience. This alone can boost development efficiency by more than 30%.
SmartCoder comes equipped with two functions: code auto-completion and smart search. Activating code auto-completion only requires you to enter hms in the editing area. The function enables you to complete coding quickly, thanks to the following advantages: completes single API or API call chains; provides floating windows to describe APIs in rich text, and quick documentation in pop-ups, listing code details as well as a short descriptions; allows you to edit auto-completed code snippets. Smart search provides instant access to a wealth of resources, including Kit (for kit-related documentation), Template (for integration steps), Snippet (for sample code snippets), and API (for official API references).
HMS Toolkit is an IDE plug-in that provides all the tools required for developing and releasing HMS Core-integrated apps in Android Studio. You can use it to create, code, convert, test, and release your apps, for a more productive and cost-effective development process.
Text is more than just lines on a page. It can embody our understanding of the world. But how to better record text and improve writing experience is the next big challenge in the digital age.
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According to Li Jianing, CEO of Jnotes, the main incentive to develop the Jnotes app was to provide users with a lifelike digital writing experience that supports their everyday habits. New advancements in network technology and smart devices (like phones, tablets, and watches) are commonplace, which is why many enterprises are adopting a smart office model. The Jnotes app is designed for a paperless society, presenting handwriting at maximum fidelity and minimal latency to fit users' requirements.
Li Jianing, CEO of Jnotes
Jnotes was established in 2019, recalled Jianing, and with a team of four. Since then, the app has been installed over 30 million times. Jianing says, "This achievement is part due to our continuous investment in advanced technologies, and part to our core focus on user experience". In addition to its excellent writing experience, Jnotes also provides a set of quality functions, such as handwriting duplication, PDF annotation, and image insert. These features make the app a perfect foundation to facilitate both work and studying, for any environment.
Jnotes team
Open capabilities from HMS Core have contributed to Jnotes' meteoric rise. For example, Pencil Engine. Its stroke estimate feature improves stroke efficiency and the writing experience. According to Jianing, "This feature helps narrow the distance from the handwriting to the stylus pen tip, and slash the writing latency." Now, writing is smooth as using pen and paper, conforming perfectly to common writing habits.
Another key feature was Drive Kit, which facilitates the synchronization function on the app. Jianing added, "Drive Kit allows users to check and edit their notes on different types of devices, making the app a premium tool for improving productivity".
Smooth writing experience from Jnotes
One core focus for the company was the need to quickly respond to users' requirements. In fact, this is one of the reasons why Jnotes stands out from the crowd. The app adopts Analytics Kit, which allows the support team to check vital operations data in AppGallery Connect — the Huawei platform designed for developers — to swiftly locate issues and make improvements. Jianing explains, "This helps stay on top of, and refine, our operations". This was especially useful when combined with user feedback, helping the company better equipped for the future.
Users' feedback from AppGallery Connect
At the 2021 Huawei HMS App Innovation Contest, Jnotes reaped the Best App award. For Jianing and her team, this was the recognition they dreamed, and encouraged the whole Jnotes team to keep pushing their limits.
AppsUP 2021 Best App
Each year, the app's user base grows bigger, meaning the Jnotes team will have to stay dedicated to improving its performance. The company will work with HMS Core to offer true-to-life, smooth writing experience.