The iOS app store sales data app AppSalesTrends gets an update
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 by Austin Harris
Finnish indie developer, Esa Helttula announces AppSalesTrends 2.30, the update to his iOS and Mac App Store sales tracking application for macOS. The app allows iOS and macOS developers to download and analyze tracking information about their apps. Users can track an unlimited number of apps and bundles, view daily sales reports, sales graphs, and much more. Version 2....
Corona Labs Acquired by Perk, Releases New OS X and tvOS Updates
Tuesday, December 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Corona Labs has announced that it has been acquired by Perk, which provides an app monetization platform that offers virtual and real rewards to mobile and web consumers. Corona had previously been acquired by Fuse Labs in fall of 2014. Corona’s 2d app development platform provides the ability to publish games to a number of major platforms including iOS, Android, ...
Latest Apple Developer Tools Roundup
Saturday, October 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Apple has released a number of updates of its tooling for developers. Here is a rundown of the most recent releases:- OS X 10.11.1 beta 3 pre-release: This is a pre-release version of OS X v10.11.1.- OS X Server 5.0.15 beta pre-release: This is a pre-release version of OS X Server 5.0.15 for OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and OS X v10.11 and v10.11.1 Developer beta systems.- App...
Apple Announcements at WWDC Include Introduction of iOS 9
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
During its keynote kicking off WWDC 2015, one of the highlight Apple announcements was iOS 9, which will be available this fall. According to Apple, in this upcoming release, iOS devices become more intelligent and proactive with search and improved Siri features. New multitasking features designed specifically for iPad provide users that ability to work with two apps s...
Lookback User Feedback System Is Now Available for Android and Mac Developers Too
Thursday, March 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Lookback, a company that offers feedback recording tools for apps, has announced the acquisition of Reissued Ltd, and its QuickCast platform which provides a screen recording app for OS X with more than 500,000 screencasts on its platform.The Lookback platform facilitates feedback for user testing enabling software companies to record user feedback, experiences and bug ...
QuartzCode Code Generation Tool for OS X Receives Update
Monday, March 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
QuartzCode is an animation tool that turns vector drawing and animation into Objective C and Swift code in real time. The latest release, Version 1.2, supports Swift 1.2 and introduces a new unified timeline panel, which now shows animations from all layers, instead of one layer making managing animations easier.Duration of the animations can be changed by changing main...
Get Your Reading Glasses: Apple Publishes 500 Page Behemoth of a Guide for New Swift Programming Language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
From a developer standpoint, one of the top news out of Apple’s WWDC is the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which works side-by-side with Objective-C.Apple is touting the platform as a fast, high-performance LLVM compiler, where Swift code is transformed into optimized native code, tuned to get the most out of modern Mac, iPhone, and iPad hardw...
Apple’s WWDC Brings OS X Yosemite With New Swift for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch and Advances in App Extensions, SpriteKit, SceneKit, Safari, and iCloud
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by Richard Harris
The announcement of OS X Yosemite brings the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch as well as advances in SpriteKit and SceneKit, Safari, iCloud, and more.Some of the highlights include:App ExtensionsWith App Extensions any app can add new functionality to OS X Yosemite, enabling access to app features from almost anywhere. Once a user installs an app...
App Annie Announces New Statistic and Analytic Offerings for App Developers
Saturday, October 26, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
App Annie has announced some new features to their app store stats and analytics that incorporate some of the changes found around the app stores.
The company has opened up its hourly iOS rankings feature for all users allowing developers to track the hourly rankings of the iPhone, iPad and Mac app stores. In response to the establishment of the new Kids Category for ...
If Apple ran the video game business, this is what is would look like.
Thursday, November 29, 2012 by Richard Harris
A CNN report claims that tablet computers are the future of the video games industry, and given Apple's stronghold over the tablet industry that means the iPad (for the foreseeable future) is going to be the future of gaming. Not just handheld gaming, mind – all gaming.If this comes to pass – and it's requiring something of a mental leap from ourselves – ...
The long lines to get an app approved by Apple
Thursday, November 8, 2012 by Richard Harris
Complaints are coming from some developers that Apple’s App Store approval process has slowed recently, with wait times running up to three weeks.
The drawn-out process is particularly troubling for some that are hoping to launch games or other applications in time for the holidays to take advantage of higher-than-usual phone and tablet sales. “It’s been ...
