iOS & Android Development

Cocoa, and by inheritance Cocoa Touch on iOS makes a clear distinction between what is an exception, and what is an error in your application. This should be obvious since NSException and NSError both inherit from the NSObject root class with no relations at all. Jayway Team Blog

Bieten Sie Ihre Kiosk-App in Apples Zeitungskiosk an, so haben Sie dafür ein Abonnement als In-App-Kauf angelegt. Wahrscheinlich haben Sie das Abo als “auto-renewable subscription” eingerichtet, so dass es sich für Ihre Leser automatisch verlängert, wenn sie es nicht 24-Stunden vor Ende der Abo-Periode kündigen. Viele iPad-Nutzer empfinden das als “Abo-Falle” oder Bevormundung. Noch schlimmer ist es, wenn die Nutzer nicht wissen, wie Sie die automatische Verlängerung verhindern können. Daher sollten Sie Ihre Kunden transparent informieren, wie sie das Abonnement kündigen können — und sich selbst mit dem Vorgang auseinander setzen, falls Ihre Abonnenten Sie danach fragen. tabletpublishing.mobi

Asymco

Apple today announced financial results for the fourth calendar quarter of 2011 and first fiscal quarter of 2012. For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $46.33 billion and net quarterly profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $26.7 billion and net quarterly profit of $6 billion, or $6.43 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 44.7 percent, compared to 38.5 percent in the year-ago quarter, and international sales accounted for 58 percent of the quarter's revenue. Apple's quarterly profit and revenue were both company records. MacRumors

The KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence has posted this video demonstrating their patented eBook interface prototype. MacRumours

Use full text search feature from SQLite with Android and iOS. Full text search with SQLite FTS3

Over the past weekend I set out to integrate a unit test framework into my current project. I ended up testing three different frameworks: OCUnit Google Toolbox for Mac (GTM) iPhone Unit Testing GHUnit I will provide a brief overview and pros and cons to each framework and my final conclusion. iPhone Unit Testing Explained – Part 1

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The Up-Front Conclusion: OCUnit/SenTest is now good enough to deserve your attention. I recommend it for all new Xcode 4 projects. I still recommend GHUnit for any project where GHUnit is already in use. Long Weekend Mobile See also Unit Testing Applications

So, what if you want to run jenkins locally on a mac? What if you want it to build from a private github repository, and you want it to use its own private key? And you’re on a mac? Matt on Rails

BringButler

Source Code Beautifier for C, C++, C#, ObjectiveC, D, Java, Pawn and VALA Uncrustify Using with Xcode 4 Xcode-4-Uncrustify-Automator-Services Code Formatting in Xcode 4

Terminal sudo opensnoop OSX Daily Activity Indicator Applications - Utilities  - Activity Indicator Process - Information - Open Files and Ports Mac Tips and Tricks UI Tools Sonar  (file monitoring) Yank  (installation surveying and uninstalling) AppCleaner  (free)