-
Recent Posts
Top Posts & Pages
- Continuous Deployment of iOS Apps with Jenkins and TestFlight
- Building a shared calendar with Backbone.js and FullCalendar: A step-by-step tutorial
- Asynchronous Code Design with Node.js
- When to use Delegation, Notification, or Observation in iOS
- Cascading Select Boxes with Backbone.js: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Meta
Category Archives: Mobile
Easing the Pain of Android Software Fragmentation
Software fragmentation is a common concern for Android developers. Right now, supporting all versions down to Android 2.2 (Froyo) will make your application available to 93.5% of Google Play users. However, doing so also means you miss out on APIs that were … Continue reading
Yow! Developer Conference Brisbane.
Yow! Brisbane 2011 I recently had the pleasure of attending the Brisbane Yow! Conference. This was a great conference with talks to interest developers across many languages platforms and experience. This blog is a summary of the more interesting talks … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Cloud, Continuous Integration, Java, Javascript, Mobile, Node.js, Opinion
4 Comments
CouchDb on Android
Synchronising advanced data structures with a backend sucks. Especially when the sync is both ways; user updates to server, server updates to user. Couchbase for Mobile attempts to solve this issue by bringing CouchDb and it’s spiffy replication to Android.
Posted in Android, Mobile, NoSQL
Leave a comment
A Good Look at Android Location Data
Getting started with the development of location-based services on Android is relatively easy thanks to the well documented location API. However, getting more serious shows there is still much uncharted territory. One such area concerns the accuracy of real-life location data, which … Continue reading
Swipe Conference Highlights: Gamification
Of the many excellent sessions at this week’s Swipe Conference, the one titled “Build Better Cocoa Apps Using Game Mechanics” by Paris Buttfield-Addison was unique in its topic. In it, Paris outlined how gamification is currently viewed as something that can be … Continue reading
Posted in iPhone, Mobile, Opinion
Leave a comment
iOS Developers and Designers: Stickin’ together is what good waffles do!
We’ve all heard developers say it: “I’m a terrible drawer” or “I’ve got no design skills”. Perhaps we’re even guilty of saying it ourselves – I know I am. But after attending this year’s Swipe Conference I now subscribe to … Continue reading
Posted in iPhone, Mac, Mobile, Opinion
Leave a comment
Swipe Conference Highlights: Using gestures as shortcuts within iOS apps
Yesterday was the last day of Swipe Conference so I thought I would take this time to reiterate one of the points I took from the first presentation by Josh Clark. Josh covered quite a few topics and if you … Continue reading
Me Want Cookie: Session Handling with NetBiscuits Mobile Web Apps
Shine was recently involved with helping a client bring an outsourced mobile web site in-house. The site was essentially a guide for browsing business and event information for cinemas, restaurants and bars in your area. Bringing this web site in-house … Continue reading
New iOS Developers Shouldn’t Use Interface Builder
When I first started learning Objective-C and the iOS SDK 2.x a few years ago, one thing that I constantly struggled to get my head around was Interface Builder. More specifically, why should I use it and how it could … Continue reading
Posted in iPhone, Mac, Mobile
18 Comments
Continuous Deployment of iOS Apps with Jenkins and TestFlight
I thought it was about time I should put together a simple guide on using Jenkins to build your iOS application – and for those of us that use the awesome testflightapp.com website for managing our iOS app distribution for … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Continuous Integration, iPhone, Mac, Mobile
Tagged CI, hudson, jenkins, testflightapp, tutorial, XCode
60 Comments
