iOS project management tips
Sunday, December 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
If you are creating an app for iOS here's a tip - get organized! Sure, sure - you write super clean code and are diligent with your in-line documentation. But as programmers, we tend to not be the best at conveying important parts of projects to others that could save loads of time (and money), when other team members are involved. That's where team management s...
CircleCI 2.0 now available for Apple crossplatform apps
Monday, November 27, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Apple developers using CircleCI can now access all the benefits of CircleCI 2.0 when building for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, and Apple Watch. Rolled out to cloud customers in July, CircleCI 2.0 is the company’s most significant redesign since inception and marks a major advancement for the platform.Apple developers can build faster thanks to advanced caching strategie...
App Camp For Girls looks to train the next generation
Thursday, March 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
App Camp For Girls, a non-profit organization aimed at correcting the gender imbalance in the software industry, has opened 2017 registration for its popular summer program that teaches girls how to make mobile apps in one week. The program launches its first Chicago camp in 2017, in addition to Portland, Seattle, and Phoenix. This year, the aspiring developers will use...
Make School Summer Developer Training Includes VR and Gaming
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Make School Summer Academy located in San Francisco is offering a Summer Academy series designed to teach product development in four tracks areas: Intro to Swift Development, Gaming Development, VR Development and iOS App Development.The deadline to apply is May 15 and pricing for each Academy varies by track. Tuition assistance is available. Here is an overview of...
Call for iOS App Developers Who Are Launching Functionality for Apple Watch
Monday, April 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
As the Apple Watch debut comes closer, we’re reaching out to the iOS app development community to find out if you are adding Apple Watch functionality to your app. We understand that the major app players will have Apple Watch offerings in play, however we wanted to hear from those in the indie development community who plan on adding Apple Watch integration to see...
Moff Releases Wearables SDK for iOS App Development
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Moff, a startup creating a wearable smart toy band, has announced the introduction of the Moff Software Development Kit (SDK). The Moff SDK will provide iOS app developers with access to Moff’s proprietary motion and position recognition library. In addition, the Moff SDK delivers access to Moff’s Bluetooth connection manager software. The Moff SDK for iOS gives ap...
App Camp For Girls Launches New Locations
Thursday, March 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
App Camp For Girls is launching two new locations in Summer 2015. Camp sessions will take place in Vancouver, BC, and Martinsville, NJ, along with established locations Portland, OR, and Seattle, WA. Campers receive a broad introduction to the process of iOS app development, from brainstorming and designing ideas to building and pitching their apps. The girls use Mac co...
A Mobile App Developer’s Checklist for the New iPhone 6 Launch: Don’t Miss Out on the Wave of New Users
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
The upcoming announcement and launch of Apple’s new offerings is going to create a stampede of people updating their devices to the latest greatest Apple device.And that means that they will be paying a lot of attention to the apps on these devices. When the first iPhone 5 came out Fisku, in their App Store Competitive Index, saw app downloads soar to 5.40 million daily...
Facebook Open Sources Tweaks Rapid Prototyping Tool for iOS App Development
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Facebook has open sourced on Github its Tweaks rapid prototyping tool which provides an easy way to fine-tune an iOS app.According to Facebook: The best way to improve an app is to use it every day. Even when ideas can be tested out in advance — for example, with Origami — it can still take some time with the app to see how it works in practice.Occasional...
Enough Flappy Bird Knockoffs: Apple Encourages Better Apps with New Designing Great Apps Hub
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
On million apps and going strong is a ubiquitous thing. Lots of apps - lots of great apps not so much.So you might have heard the Apple has published a new portal to help developers make better apps. The “Designing Great Apps” site is an obvious attempt to prod developers to do a better job of submitting higher quality apps.On the heals of an onslaught of Flap...
Digia to Offer Training Sessions for the Qt Framework for Android and iOS App Development
Friday, February 14, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Digia has announced a series of Qt Mobile Roadshows that will run in the US, UK and Germany during February and March. The full-day events will feature technical training and developer presentations focused on how the Qt cross-platform application and user interface (UI) development framework can be used to enhance, simplify and accelerate development for the leadi...
