What if I told you there was an easy formula for pitching your app to bloggers and reviewers? And if that formula would give you a running start far beyond most apps? Why it Matters You want your app to sell – to get downloads. You might have the best idea, but if people don’t …
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iOS Smart App Banner plugin for WordPress
iOS Smart App Banner plugin for WordPress
I just released version 1.0 of my iOS Smart App Banner plugin for Wordpress. This plugin lets you put a smart app banner at the top of your post or page when an iOS device visits in mobile Safari. It’s a great tool for app promotion that makes it very easy for people to find & buy your app in the App Store.
An Overview on Providing OAuth for Your Mobile App
I was recently playing around with an idea – a proof of concept – for an mobile app API. If you’ve never done this before, keep reading. The high-level requirements: A mobile app that you have control over An API you’re working on Users must be authenticated As I am the app and API owner, …
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Focus Follow Mouse and other *nix wonders
Back in the days at the UCSD Center for fMRI, I had the opportunity to get my hands dirty with a few types of *nix systems that most people have never heard of, much less use. My boss was also pretty keen on very specific configurations that he insisted his employees put on their computers …
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Underwhelming Android Experience
Ryan Heise summed it up nicely in Four Months With Android. I used an HTC incredible for 11 months. There are some great things about Android, but the negatives far outweigh the benefits for me. Android was just underwhelming. The UI and UX isn’t as nicely polished as iOS. Android apps, on average, just aren’t …
Will Hybrid Mobile Apps Prevail Over Native?
I’ve been wrestling with this question for some time, and I thought this post may help sort out my thoughts and opinions while giving you some important insight. Are hybrid mobile apps going to become the developer’s choice anytime soon? The debate can be pretty heated as companies choose one technology over the other. Hybrid, …
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GeoLocation Near You
We at Pivotal Action were recently given a task for a client – develop a tool for a mobile API where admin can upload a list of retailers so that their mobile app users could find locations near them. It’s basically a “Find near me” utility. This type of project is broken down into 3 …
Quiet NSLog() in Release Builds
On the heels of the previous post, here’s a little snippit I picked up from Marek Bell to quiet NSLog() output in release builds. Add this to your {MyApp}-prefix.pch file #ifndef __OPTIMIZE__ # define NSLog(…) NSLog(__VA_ARGS__) #else # define NSLog(…) {} #endif The reasoning behind using __OPTIMIZE__ is that it’s set only on release builds …
Quiet the Console – PhoneGap / iOS
I have a confession – I’m a console logging junkie. I just like to see what’s going on. While that may be great for development, at some point you’ll have to quiet the logging down for production. Really – doing enough logging will slow everything down each time you’ve inserted a console.log() into your code. …
PhoneGap + XCode4
There’s been a bit of confusion surrounding changes to XCode4 and PhoneGap. Right now the big ones are 1) Where did my PhoneGap user templates go!? and 2) How do I submit my PhoneGap-based app to Apple? Let me help you. 1) You want to create a new PG project, but you’re not seeing the …