Whilst many developers complain of a race to the bottom with app pricing as this comic briliantly illustrates http://theoatmeal.com/blog/apps I do question whether this was a metric that developers found easy to manipulate in the early days of app stores that may not necessarily hold true in the longer term, a great comment I once [...]
Read MoreRomain Nurik posted an excellent article today on why you need to hand edit layouts for Android rather than using a WYSIWIG tool First off, there will be some obvious bias in this post. I have been very fortunate in my working career to work with some truly great product managers, designers and artists on [...]
Read MoreHopefully someone else will find these useful. Distilled from the Apple guide Icon.png – Home screen icon for iPhone 3 (57×57) Icon@2x.png – Home screen icon for iPhone 4 (114×114) Icon-72.png – Home screen icon for iPad (72×72) Icon-Small.png - Settings/Spotlight icon for iPhone 3 (29×29) Icon-Small@2x.png – Settings/Spotlight icon for iPhone 4 (58×58) Icon-Small-50.png – [...]
Read MoreGreat list of tips from Google developer advocate Reto, on future proofing your apps in the Android market http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/future-proofing-your-app.html The aapt tip for dumping out what features your app requires was certainly new to me! For anyone who is not aware or newer to Android, I always feel the need to highlight the Draw 9-patch [...]
Read MoreWith many channels alight on what people think of the new developer agreement forcing developers to write in “Objective-C, C, C++,or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine” you can read John Grubers excellent pieces on what changed and his thoughts on why. Steve if you believe replied to emails sent stating “We’ve been there [...]
Read MoreSome clever people at the PWN2OWN content in Vancouver have managed to prove an exploit involving Safari and the iPhone. Their proof shows how they could execute code from a malicious website to extract the contents of the sms database, you can read full details in Zynamics press release Theres a great set of videos [...]
Read MoreSlides from the February Android meetup Into to Android Live Wallpapers View more presentations from kgutteridge.
Read MoreAvailable on iTunes: http://bit.ly/knowcolor Amazing how after a few days away from the computer at Xmas can lead to inspiration for a small game, so after I had decided it had been too long since I had made a little fun game and as I wanted to play this myself! I got started, a few days [...]
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