iOS & Android Development

81% of app developers said that they would not abandon their app despite the same amount not making enough money to support a standalone business… More developers are not breaking even in 2013 [67%] compared to 2012 [59%]… Most Android developers [73%] are not breaking even and are 4 times more likely [41%] to have zero revenue compared to iOS [58% and 10% respectively]… Alex Curylo

Das irische Unternehmen Havok, eine Tochter von Intel, hat eine Engine namens Project Anarchy veröffentlicht. Sie ist primär für die Entwicklung von Spielen und anderen Apps für mobile Plattformen gedacht und unterstützt iOS, Android und Tizen. Der Einsatz sei in den meisten Fällen kostenlos, aber an bestimmte Bedingungen geknüpft, sagt Havok. Golem Project Anarchy

You can transport binary data inside HTML for images and audio files, too: img src="data:image/png;base64, (+base64 encoded image data) " audio controls="controls" preload="auto"    source type="audio/mpeg" src="data:audio/mpeg;base64, (+base64 encoded audio data iso-8859-1)" The "data" URL scheme By the way, you can base64 encode files via Mac Terminal: > openssl base64 -in infile .out outfile

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You can also create easy-to-read links to your app using App Store Short Links, which use the AppStore.com base URL plus a specific form of your app or company name. These short links are ideal for use in offline communications materials like print ads, TV spots, app trailers, radio ads and billboards where you need a memorable URL. Note: Previously, short links were available using the itunes.com URL. AppStore.com replaces itunes.com. iTunes.com links will continue to work but should be updated as soon as feasible. There are three types of App Store Short Links, in two forms, one for iOS apps, another for Mac Apps: Company Name iOS: http://appstore.com/ for example, http://appstore.com/apple Mac: http://appstore.com/mac/ for example, http://appstore.com/mac/apple App Name iOS: http://appstore.com/ for example, http://appstore.com/keynote Mac: http://appstore.com/mac/ for example, http://appstore.com/mac/keynote App by Company iOS: http://appstore.com/ / for example...

You can now transfer qualifying apps to another account — useful in cases of an acquisition or asset purchase. When you transfer an app, it will remain available on the App Store or Mac App Store, all ratings and reviews will carry over, and users will continue to have access to future updates. For more details, sign in to iTunes Connect .

By taking advantage of the new Xcode service in OS X Server, you can now create bots to automate the integration process of building, analyzing, testing, and archiving in just a few clicks. Bots are a great way to generate regular releases for your QA team, provide useful alerts, and test apps for any device-specific bugs. For more details, see What's New in Xcode .

Nice slides (2012-10-13) covering: iTunes Connect BugSense Crittercism Crashlytics HockeyApp TestFlight Apphance Slideshare.net

Moving source code is easy. You can do it with a couple of mouse clicks, a commit and be done in about 5 minutes if you really wanted to. But if you did, you’d be missing the most important part: the history. Code: Impossible

What I really would love to see: A new Apple Cinema Display 2013 with external graphics card - or even better an external graphics card slot and thunderbolt connector. Then the MacBook Air is the one to go for! Compatibility with Windows appreciated :)

Market share development per Android phone The top 20 Android phones used by AppBrain users. AppBrain

weinre is a debugger for web pages, like FireBug (for FireFox) and Web Inspector (for WebKit-based browsers), except it's designed to work remotely, and in particular, to allow you debug web pages on a mobile device such as a phone. weinre

LibArchive (and bz2lib) as static libraries for iOS. iOS-libarchive Why not using libarchive? With libarchive: We add code dependencies to our project. These dependencies need to be updated. More lines of code means more bugs. According to Steve McConnell’s “Code Complete”, there are on average between 15 and 50 bugs per KLOC (Kilo line of code), so if I take a calculator and make rocket science estimation, there are 5000 bugs in libarchive. If Apple changes an API and break libarchive compatibility, your code will not stay reliable. Is there another way? What if I must push my app in the app store but don’t want to link this 4.7MB of hardly-maintainable code? Let’s code my own light and pragmatic untar implementation. Untar on iOS, the pragmatic way

What J2ObjC Is J2ObjC is an open-source command-line tool from Google that translates Java code to Objective-C for the iOS (iPhone/iPad) platform. This tool enables Java code to be part of an iOS application's build, as no editing of the generated files is necessary. The goal is to write an app's non-UI code (such as data access, or application logic) in Java, which is then shared by web apps (using GWT), Android apps, and iOS apps. J2ObjC supports most Java language and runtime features required by client-side application developers, including exceptions, inner and anonymous classes, generic types, threads and reflection. JUnit test translation and execution is also supported. J2ObjC is currently between alpha and beta quality. Several Google projects rely on it, but when new projects first start working with it, they usually find new bugs to be fixed. Apparently every Java developer has a slightly different way of using Java, and the tool hasn't translated all possib...

Great real-life text explaining the pitfalls and solution in HTML5 publishing. Smashing Magazine Libs covered: Flexbox FTEllipsis (Multi-line ellipsis made possible) Icon Fonts  and FontForge FTScroller mustache (Logic-less templates)

Fix 'Terminating since there is no workspace' This error used to prevent specs from being run on the iOS 6 simulator unless you used a tool like waxsim Fool the simulator into thinking a workspace is present by creating a message port named 'PurpleWorkspacePort' if it doesn't exist. - Stub out -[UIWindow _createContext] because this throws an NSInternalConsistency error. GitHub

xctool is a replacement for Apple's xcodebuild that makes it easier to build and test iOS and Mac products. It's especially helpful for continuous integration. Facebook is using it, too and... developed it. GitHub

Switch to the branch to be closed ("hg up -C bad branch" or double click in SourceTree) hg commit --close-branch -m 'farewell message' Mercurial