iOS & Android Development

OpenSignal

It's the battle Android vs. iOS Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian, Series 40, Windows Phone, Samsung StatCounter areppim

Apple Service Stats Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles Member Center iTunes Connect Xcode Automatic Configuration iOS Dev Center Program Enrollment and Renewals Pre-Release Documentation Mac Dev Center Apple Developer Forums Software Downloads Safari Dev Center Bug Reporter Videos App Store Resource Center Technical Support Apple

New numbers out today from research firm Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (via AllthingsD) show that consumers in the U.S. are purchasing an increasing number of previous generation iPhones compared to recent years. It certainly helps make the case for a much rumored lower-cost iPhone, with the iPhone 4 capturing 18 percent of iPhones sold in the US during the June quarter, and the iPhone 4S an impressive 30 percent. 9to5mac

You can now use Transporter, Apple’s command-line delivery tool, to deliver App Store metadata localizations, in addition to In-App Purchase and Game Center metadata. This includes screenshots, rights and pricing, and In-App Purchase hosted content assets. Using Transporter allows you to integrate with your own content management system and deliver your app metadata in bulk. This process is especially useful for adding and managing localizations, which help maximize your global App Store exposure. You can also use Transporter to look up and retrieve your existing app's metadata, in order to see an example of correctly formatted XML. To learn more about App Store packages, including how to create them, see the updated App Metadata Specification document available for download from the Manage Your Apps module on iTunes Connect. For more information about downloading and installing Transporter, see the Transporter User Guide, also available for download from the Manage Your Apps...

Apples Entwicklerbereich ist auch am Dienstag weiterhin offline. Dies markiert den bereits sechsten Tag des Ausfalls. Apple hatte am Wochenende eingeräumt, dass es einen Angriff auf den Entwicklerserver gegeben hatte, bei dem mindestens der Zugriff auf Namen, E-Mail-Adressen und Apple-IDs möglich gewesen war. Heise

Das mobile Datenvolumen in Deutschland ist um 40 Prozent angestiegen. Bald bringt die mobile Internetnutzung mehr Umsatz als Telefonie. Golem

Milliardendeal in der Mobilfunkbranche: Der spanische Anbieter Telefónica übernimmt E-Plus. Der O2-Mutterkonzern zahlt dafür fünf Milliarden Euro sowie 17,6 Prozent an eigenen Aktien. Spiegel

Chicago, with tweets from iPhones represented in red and tweets from Android devices represented in green. Image: Mapbox Wired

How to let Objective-C talk to JavaScript and vice versa for iOS 7+. Time: -5:30 WebKit and WebView Bad News for us iOS developer: Hooking in the WebView is possible for Mac OS only... Apple Developer WWDC 2013 Session Video 615 iOS 7

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) No Support, despite being the most popular version of Android Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) Streams cause tablet devices to crash Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) VOD streams do not seek Aspect ratios are not detected and cause image deformation Fullscreen causes videos to restart from the beginning Android 4.1+ (Jelly Bean) Aspect ratio issue is fixed, but seek is still unavailable Chrome does not understand HLS leading to broken mimetype detection Taking video fullscreen causes devices to throw an error and stop. Longtail Video Live Streaming on Android Devices Helix SDK for Android

Monitor & Experiment in Real-time Monitor your app and experiment in a way you never thought possible. Add our framework to your Xcode project, and the Spark Inspector will offer you an entirely new debugging perspective. With a three-dimensional view of your app's interface and the ability to change view properties at runtime, Spark can help you craft the best apps on earth. Wiring your app together with notifications? Spark's notification monitor shows you each NSNotification as it's sent, complete with a stack trace, a list of recipients and invoked methods, and more. Understand app structure at a glance and debug smarter. That's Spark. Spark Inspector