When prototyping Android activities with a lot of view elements, the onCreate method can quickly become cluttered. Setup code that simply retrieves the views from the declarative layout (by using…
When you enable Apple Push Notifications (APN) for your App, your device generates a unique device token and pass it to the didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken method in your App delegate. Usually, you’ll…
During the process of developing I think I spider we discovered various problems regarding Android’s different resolutions. Here you can see which problems we encountered and how we solved them:…
If you add a store to your app and use In App Purchases to collect your payments, there are a couple of limitations your have to live with. One of…
We improved our “I think I spider” App quite a bit since Beta 1. Among other stuff we added some nice sound effects. If you want to check it out,…
Once in a while a demand for fast development of a mobile application for several platforms at once comes up. Your team of developers might be small or knowledge about…
During development I realized that many device specific features are not available in the emulator. So I decided to find a way to debug software in realtime on the device.…
Have you ever pondered on the NSString class reference and you were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of methods? I certainly have and due to the endless possibilities those methods…
Before flying off to WWDC last month, I watched a whole bunch of sessions from 2009. Among others a session on “Prototyping iPhone User Interfaces” by Bret Victor. If you…
