July is the deadline for all iOS apps that don't support iOS 11
Monday, May 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
Apple reminds us that iOS 11 is now in the hands of hundreds of millions of people around the world, and starting July 2018, all new iOS apps and updates submitted to the App Store must be built with the iOS 11 SDK, plus support iPhone X. Also, all new iOS apps and updates for iPhone, including universal apps, must support the Super Retina display of iPhone X.iOS 11 SDK...
GE and Apple partner to change the industrial world with apps
Monday, October 23, 2017 by Richard Harris
Apple and GE has announced a partnership to deliver powerful industrial apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics from Predix, GE’s industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform, to iPhone and iPad. The two companies unveiled a new Predix software development kit (SDK) for iOS, which gives developers the tools to make their own powerful industrial IoT apps.“GE...
Bugsee emerges from stealth to make finding bugs in mobile apps easier
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
New bug fixing tool allows app developers to spend more time improving functionality and user experience and less time logging, explaining and fixing buggy apps.Bugsee announced its corporate launch and the general availability of its bug reporting and crash analytics tool for mobile app developers. Bugsee is the only bug reporting solution that continuously captures vi...
Dynamsoft Releases Barcode Scanning SDK for iOS Apps
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Dynamsoft has released a new software development kit (SDK) for iOS developers to that provides the ability to integrate barcode scanning into iOS apps. The new SDK supports 1D and 2D barcode reading. Dynamsoft’s Barcode Reader for iOS SDK supports reading single barcodes from images and smartphone cameras. Synchronous and asynchronous barcode decoding are su...
iOS Developers Can Now Integrate With Agile CRM
Friday, May 20, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Agile CRM has released a new software development kit (SDK) that allows iOS developers to integrate their apps with Agile CRM’s contact management platform.Agile CRM’s iOS SDK provides the code libraries, samples, documentation and tools needed to connect with the Agile CRM platform. Some of the iOS integrations that the SDK offers include:- Contacts: Allows mobile...
Specific Technology Skills Provide Pay Boost for Tech Sector
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
PayScale, in partnership with Future Workplace, have released a new workforce skills preparedness report titled “Leveling Up: How to Win In the Skills Economy.” Among the findings were a “pay boost” for tech hiring when considering specific technical skills.Overall, the report details a disconnect between managers and recent graduates regarding their preparedness for em...
Apple and SAP to Introduce New iOS SDK for HANA Cloud Platform
Monday, May 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Apple and SAP have announced that they are working together to create a new iOS SDK to leverage the SAP HANA Cloud platform.The companies plan to introduce a new SAP HANA Cloud Platform SDK that will allow developers to build iOS apps for iPhone and iPad, based on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP’s open platform as a service. These native apps will provide access to core da...
Google Play Offers New Versions of C++-iOS SDKs and Unity Plugin
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Google Play team is rolling out a new version of its C++/iOS SDKs to offer improved CocoaPods support, which will make it easier to configure Play game services in Xcode. The new Unity plug-in will make it easier to build for iOS.The latest build of the C++/iOS SDKs is built on the new Google Sign-In framework, which adds support for authenticati...
The Parse SDK Is Now Open Source
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Facebook’s Parse has announced that it is open sourcing all of its SDKs, with iOS, OS X, and Android SDKs available now, and other SDKs to be open sourced in the near future.In addition to open sourcing their SDKs, Parse is also opening up its developer support flow. The new SDK support flow utilizes GitHub Issues, where developers can interact directly with Parse and o...
Parse Launches Mobile App Crash Reporting and Local Datastore for iOS
Monday, December 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Parse has recently introduced two new products: Crash Reporting for iOS and Android, and Local Datastore for iOS.Parse Crash Reporting provides the ability to register, track, and resolve crashes in apps. The Parse team notes that there are a number of third-party crash reporting tools available but say their crash reporting platform is a way to reduce the complex...
Microsoft Announces New Office 365 REST based APIs plus iOS and Android SDKs
Friday, October 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced has announced three new Office 365 capabilities for developers: 1) general availability of new Office 365 APIs for mail, files, calendar and contacts; 2) new mobile SDKs for native app development, and 3) visibility for developers’ apps through the new Office 365 app launcher. The new Office 365 REST-based APIs for mail, files, and calendar ...
Google Play Game Services Offers Game Developers Updated Cross Platform Tools
Monday, October 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google Play Game Services is offering mobile game developers updated developer tools to provide: a more consistent set of game services across platforms; a refreshed UI based on material design; and new tools to give better visibility into what users are doing in games.The new features include:Real-time Multiplayer in the Play Games cross-platform C++ SDKTo make it easi...
Leadbolt's New SDK Version 5.0 is Optimized for iOS 8
Friday, September 26, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The release of iOS 8 with its new features and enhancements brings several new opportunities and some new code level changes for iOS App developers. Leadbolt’s new SDK version 5.0 has been optimized to take advantage of these changes in iOS 8 to help developers maximize their opportunities through the Leadbolt app discovery and monetization platformWhen designing apps a...
Google Provides Android Developers With New C++ Cross Platform Tools
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has updated new tools that are now available to game developers to facilitate cross platform development. These include: updated Play Games cross-platform C++ SDK, updated Play Games SDK for iOS, and new game services alerts in the developer console.Updated Play Games C++ SDKGoogle has updated the Google Play Games C++ SDK with more cross-platform...
SiteSpect Releases Mobile SDK for A|B Testing of iOS Apps
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SiteSpect has released a new SDK to perform A/B testing and behavioral targeting for native iOS apps. The new SiteSpect Mobile: iOS SDK is designed to integrate into any iOS app and supports editing, creating, and publishing user experience changes without requiring App Store updates.Once the SDK has been integrated into a mobile app a developer can:- Optimize...
Build Apps That Can Take Signatures Using DocuSign's New SDK
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
At WWDC this week, DocuSign, Inc. (DocuSign®) announced the availability of the industry’s first Mobile SDK for iOS that enables mobile developers to build Digital Transaction Management (DTM) and electronic signing capabilities natively into mobile apps. Built on DocuSign’s industry leading DTM platform, the DocuSign Mobile SDK is optimized for rapid development so dev...
Facebook Announces More Stable Platform with Versioning and Graph API 2.0
Thursday, May 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
During the f8 developer conference Facebook assured app developers that providing a better mobile experience for both developers and users is a priority. Among the announcements was API Versioning and a two-year stability guarantee for core products such as Login, Sharing, Requests, SDKs and frequently used Graph API endpoints. This means that if Facebook...
Adtiles Motion Ads Looks to Shake Up Native Mobile Ads
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Pretty soon, many of the most popular apps might just be elaborate ads, packaged to entertain, published to monetize.Adtiles is helping to blur the line between what is an integral part of an app and what is advertising with its Motion Ads product, a new solution that is being added to Adtile’s native iOS SDK, Design Desk and ad serving technology. Shake your ...
Flesky SDK Allows iOS App Developers to Integrate Keyboard in Apps
Thursday, December 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Flesky has announced that it released its iOS SDK which will allow developers to integrated at the application-level of any iOS app.
If you want to check out apps that have intergrated the SDK, here are four: There are currently four apps that have already taken advantage of the Fleksy SDK: BlindSquare, GV Connect, Launch Center Pro and Wordbox....
Stanford offers free course in developing iOS 7 apps for iPhone and iPad
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 by Richard Harris
Anyone looking to get some free schooling from Stanford, here you go! They are offering a free course on iOS programming for iPhone and iPad over iOS7. The instructor is Paul Hegarty who also teaches "Coding Together: Apps for iPhone and iPad, Coding Together: Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad, and Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPhone and iPad.It's available over iTu...
iOS 7 Beta 6 Download Now Available From Apple Dev Center
Thursday, August 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
iOS 7 beta 6 has been released and is ready for downloading. At only 13 megs it's not a huge update, but Apple has let everyone be privy as to what has been changed for this release by with a complete change log, repeated below.
Notes and Known Issues
The following issues relate to using iOS SDK 7.0 to develop code.
Address Book
Notes
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Facebook SDK 3.7 for iOS is Now Available
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 by Richard Harris
Facebook released it's latest SDK for iOS version 3.7 this week, which includes many updates such as automatic error handling that should help developers spot problems between their app and Facebook sooner. Also in the update is a refresh of the login screen UI which is what is presented to users inside your app when interfacing with the social shar...
Pragmatic Studio announces a 4 day hands on training course
Monday, June 24, 2013 by Richard Harris
The Pragmatic Studio announces a 4-day, hands-on training course, where participants will learn how to design and build high-quality iOS apps from start to finish. Participants join The Pragmatic Studio either July 22-25 in Reston, Virginia or August 26-29 in Denver, Colorado and learn not only how to use the tools and APIs in the SDK, but also best practices and techni...
Facebook releases native share dialog for iOS developers
Thursday, May 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
iOS app developers that are sharing features over Facebook have something new to cheer about thanks to the release a sharing mechanism by Facebook called "mobile share dialog", which makes it easier than ever to get share information out of your app.Share Dialog is the newest way for people to share stories from apps. It lets apps share rich Open Graph stories and has f...
New Google Maps 1.1 tools for iOS developers
Thursday, February 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
Google has released an update for the Google Maps IOS SDK, into the wild so any iOS developer can access its Google Maps data and integrate the features into apps (previously it was by invite only for the advanced feature set). You can get your MAPS key on the Google Maps API Console.Google developer advocate Paul Saxman says in a video demonstrating the new tools,...
Hookflash for Apple iOS developers
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
In 2010 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Steve Jobs announced, “we’re going to the standards bodies tomorrow and making FaceTime an open standard.” A great vision of tremendous value to tens of millions of users, unfortunately, it didn’t happen.Today, Hookflash announces availability of the Open Peer Software Development Kit (SDK) for iOS, providing developers...
