iOS & Android Development

New in iOS8 you can now launch the Settings app and show your apps settings: UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(NSURL(string: UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString)!)

Dabei erwarten die Meinungsforscher 2018 einen Marktanteil von 80 Prozent für Android-Geräte, 12,8 Prozent für iPhones, sowie 5,6 Prozent für Windows-Phones, wobei letztere mit der stärksten Wachstumsrate von 31,4 Prozent den größten Zuwachs verzeichnen. Golem

Apple — which ironically now offers more models of its iPad tablet than ever before — will ship 64.9 million iPad tablets in 2014, a decline of 12.7% on the total number of shipments a year ago. The bigger tablet market will see shipments of 235.7 million units, growth of 7.2% over 2013. TechCrunch

Pocket’s data suggests that users are eager to pick up larger-screened devices when it’s time to read or watch, but it’s also possible these numbers are skewed by the kind of early excitement that comes with any new device – people always lavish the most attention on their newest toys, after all. But this is one of the first solid data-driven indicators that new big-screened iPhones could be cannibalizing iPad sales, so it’s worth watching to see how these numbers evolve over time. TechCrunch

So if you want to upload to TestFlight what can you do? Well the solution offered by anyone I’ve seen blogging about it is to go make your own IPA using xcrun. That doesn’t sound so bad until you end up with code signing and keychain issues and it’s all to do something that is about to happen as soon as you’re done anyway. My solution was to just wait until the IPA file was made. My initial naive attempts were to schedule the upload from the post-archive script using at or simply adding a delay for some amount of time while the IPA file didn’t exist. What I should have realised though is that the Bot will wait as long as I’m waiting and only when my script finishes will it continue and make the IPA file. Michael Behan

Apple allows opt-out trials for auto-renewables: 1 month auto-renewable, available trials: 7 days 1 month 3 month auto-renewable, available trials: 1 month 1 year auto-renewable, available trials: 1 month, 2 months, 3 months See iTunes Connect

Check out the latest Swift Trends on GitHub to access the freshest libraries and libs! SQLite.swift MaterialKit Alamofire SwiftyJSON SwiftGuide JSONExport ExSwift SwiftTask Swift Trends  on GitHub

Um native iOS- und Android-Apps sowie die Web-App für Inbox möglichst gemeinsam weiter zu entwickeln, setzt Google auf Transpiler, die Java in Javascript und Objective-C übersetzen. Golem Google Web Toolkit J2ObjC

Userlytics Applause Appsee Swrve Loop 11 Arise SimpleUsability's beMobile Keynote UserZoom Apperian Mr. Tappy Lookback Watchsend Apptimize Leanplum Amazon A/B Testing Vessel Optimzely KISSMetrics My favorites: The heatmap of Appsee Amazon A/B Testing  *free* for iOS, Android and Amazon

CocoaPods 0.36 is just around the corner and it will include support for Swift Pods. See GitHub

Today at Flight, we announced Fabric, a modular mobile platform that makes it easy for developers to build great apps. The Fabric platform is made of three modular kits that address some of the most common and pervasive challenges that all app developers face: stability, distribution, revenue and identity. It combines the services of Crashlytics, MoPub, Twitter and others to help you build more stable apps, generate revenue through the world’s largest mobile ad exchange and enable you to tap into Twitter’s sign-in systems and rich streams of real-time content for greater distribution and simpler identity. And Fabric was built with ease of use in mind. Installation takes just minutes, and most features only require a few lines of code – so you spend less time managing SDKs and more time building the best experience for your users. Blog Twitter

The experience of our primary mobile screen being a bank of app icons that lead to independent destinations is dying. And that changes what we need to design and build. The idea of having a screen full of icons, representing independent apps, that need to be opened to experience them, is making less and less sense. The idea that these apps sit in the background, pushing content into a central experience, is making more and more sense. That central experience may be something that looks like a notification centre today, or something similar to Google Now, or something entirely new. Intercom.io

Scroll position dependent animations and actions. Nice animation engine. Open Source Der Quelltext von Pageflow steht auf der Open Source Platform GitHub zur Verfügung. Er kann dort von jedem eingesehen, verwendet und erweitert werden. Hosted-Pageflow Wer direkt loslegen und Pageflow nicht selbst installieren will, sollte unseren Hosting-Dienst probieren. Trial Accounts sind kostenlos und unverbindlich. PageFlow

The successful launches of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, along with the release of Apple’s new mobile operating system iOS 8 have impacted the marketing costs associated with gathering downloads for mobile applications, and retaining regular users. According to a new report out this morning from app marketing technology provider Fiksu, the costs associated with retaining a “loyal user” – that is, someone who opens an app three times or more – is now at an all-time high, as of September. TechCrunch

Earlier this week, tweets from Nick Lockwood and James Thomson alerted me to an as yet undocumented new feature in the iOS 8 SDK: you can now use a storyboard scene in place of your app’s launch images. Creating a Launch Screen File The launch screen file is displayed as a splash screen while your app is launching. It’s a single, atomic .xib file that uses size classes to support different device resolutions. It contains basic UIKit views, such as UIImageView and UILabel objects, and uses Auto Layout constraints. Xcode adds a default launch screen file, called LaunchScreen.xib, to your project. Follow these guidelines when creating a launch screen file: Use only UIKit classes. Use a single root view that is a UIView or UIViewController object. Don’t make any connections to your code (don’t add actions or outlets). Don’t add UIWebView objects. Don’t use any custom classes. Don’t use runtime attributes. You can add a launch screen file to an older Xcode project. To c...

Apple's head of design Jony Ive today gave a live interview at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco. In the interview, which BusinessInsider attended, Ive gave some rare insight into the design process at Apple and some of the design choices the team made with the iPhone 6. MacRumors

Apple today released a third golden master candidate of OS X Yosemite to developers, just two days after releasing the second candidate golden master and the fifth public beta. The first golden master candidate was seeded to developers on September 30. Sounds like Apple has issues, too. Reminds me on the _final.ppt _final_final.ppt _final_final_reallyfinal.ppt postfixes in my career! MacRumors

Great assembled, visual overview over all iOS 8 features. UI Design Basics Designing for iOS iOS App Anatomy Adaptivity and Layout Starting and Stopping Navigation Modal Contexts Interactivity and Feedback Animation Branding Color and Typography Icons and Graphics Terminology and Wording Integrating with iOS Design Strategies Design Principles From Concept to Product Case Study: From Desktop to iOS iOS Technologies App Extensions Notification Center Multitasking Social Media iCloud Passbook In-App Purchase Game Center iAd Rich Media Ads AirPrint Accessing User Data Quick Look Sound VoiceOver Routing Edit Menu Undo and Redo Keyboards and Input Views UI Elements Bars Content Views Controls Temporary Views Icon and Image Design Icon and Image Sizes App Icon Launch Images Bar Button Icons Newsstand Icons Web Clip Icons Creating Resizable Images iOS Human Interface Guidelines

With the iPhone 6, Apple debuted a new display technology called Retina HD, which resulted in wider viewer angles, higher resolutions, higher contrast and a thinner display. Developer Hamza Sood has now discovered frameworks within iOS 8.1 Beta 2 that contain '3x' assets that point to higher resolution displays in the new iPad models. MacRumors

Apple and its suppliers are delaying plans to mass produce the larger 12.9-inch iPad in order to deal with strong demand for the iPhone 6 Plus, reports The Wall Street Journal. Apple was originally planning to mass produce the larger tablet in December, however the company has remained unsatisfied with the production output from its suppliers for its larger iPhone. MacRumors

Last week, Pioneer announced that it became the first company to offer support for Apple's CarPlay vehicle integration feature in five of its 2014 NEX in-dash multimedia receivers through a firmware update. Now, Josh Carr of technology repair firm Fix Denver (via TUAW) has put together a four-part video walkthrough of downloading, installing and using CarPlay on Pioneer's $700 AVH-4000NEX receiver, giving an overview of various apps and features. MacRumors

NSProcessInfo isOperatingSystemAtLeastVersion operatingSystemVersion Ironically, the new NSProcessInfo APIs aren't especially useful at the time of writing, since they're unavailable for iOS 7. As an alternative, one can use the systemVersion property UIDevice switch UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion.compare("8.0.0", options: NSStringCompareOptions.NumericSearch) { case .OrderedSame, .OrderedDescending:     println("iOS >= 8.0") case .OrderedAscending:     println("iOS < 8.0") } NSHipster

That marks a very slight increase in adoption over the past two weeks, as back on September 21, iOS 8 was installed on 46 percent of devices. 47 percent of iOS users continue to stick to iOS 7, possibly due to a number of bugs that have plagued the launch of iOS 8. MacRumors

Several years ago, digital reading platform issuu gave up on the iTunes App Store after several rejections stemming from its then too-competitive nature with Apple’s planned Newsstand service. Now, it’s back. The company has released its first iOS app that brings a variety of free publications to iPhone and iPad users worldwide, with over 10,000 new ones being added daily in 30 languages. TechCrunch

Der Verkauf von iPhone 6 und iPhone Plus beginnt am 17. Oktober in China. Der verzögerte Starttermin ist auf die Prüfung durch eine Regulierungsbehörde zurückzuführen – sie zeigte sich besorgt über Systemdienste in iOS. Heise

Apple has released a new Activation Lock Status tool (via iDownloadBlog) that will make it easier for people buying a used iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to avoid getting a device that is locked to another user. iCloud - Activation Lock

Every web marketer knows about the call to action. But how many web marketers really understand the call to action? The answer, I’m afraid, is not very many. The call to action has a fascinating psychology behind it that includes width, color, border size, copy, and cool CSS effects. Yet, at the same time, this psychology goes far beyond those elements. When we understand the psychology of the call to action, we take huge strides forward in our effectiveness as marketers. To know the psychology of the call to action is to be a wizard of conversion optimization because psychology drives the entire science and art of conversion optimization. If you know just a little bit about the psychology that motivates our behavior, you will massively increase your power. Here are the psychological principles that power the CTA. KISSmetrics

But how? Many SaaS companies are scared to use text messages, with good reason. We’ve all received our share of annoying, random text messages from companies we’ve never heard of. So most of us tend to shy away from texting our users, and there’s no reason to. A recent survey showed more than 50% of texters don’t mind receiving text messages from businesses at least 1-5 times a week. If your user opted in and your text messages are helpful and timely, your text messages will be welcome. When we say “opted in”, we mean they were legitimately opted in. Not “tricked in”. Meaning your users physically checked off that they wanted to receive text messages. And again the key is timely and relevant text messages. KISSMetrics

Over the years, marketers have been changing their tactics in response to the consumer. Nowadays, consumers are a lot savvier and are being conditioned by brands like Amazon to have certain expectations, especially in their checkout experience. Key #1: Motivation Different Personality Patterns Competitive Methodical Spontaneous Humanistic Leverage Human Traits Use design elements to help them make a decision Loss Aversion Address their concerns KISSmetrics

In den ersten Tagen nach Veröffentlichung von iOS 8 erhöhte sich die App-Absturzrate nach Angabe der Analyse-Firma Crittercism auf gut 3,5 Prozent – das heißt unter 1000 App-Starts kam es zu 35 Abstürzen. Bei Geräten mit iOS 7.1 lag die Absturzrate in diesem Zeitraum angeblich bei 2 Prozent, eine Messung im März hatte 1,6 Prozent ermittelt. Heise

Als Flir Systems auf der CES 2014 im Januar mit dem Flir One eine Wärmebildkamera als Ansteckhülle für das iPhone vorstellte, glaubten einige, dass das Gerät so nie auf den Markt komme. Jetzt kann es bestellt werden. Golem

Apple doesn’t care for apps that let you launch other apps directly from the Notification Center, and has pulled one of the first apps to take advantage of this new functionality now available in iOS 8 from the iTunes App Store. TechCrunch

Learning a new codebase can be a daunting task. There are typically many, many parts in any codebase and it can feel overwhelming to understand how everything fits together. After reading this tutorial you’ll be navigating a new codebase effectively. Ray Wenderlich

It’s no longer just your clicks they want, it’s your time and attention. Welcome to the Attention Web. Times , Tony Haile

That was when the company’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, announced the launch of Office for the iPad. He emphasized the company’s focus on cloud and mobile for the future. “We think about users both as individuals and organizations spanning across all devices,” Nadella said during the launch event. And what he said effectively killed the Microsoft Surface. Forbes.com

Analyze 13 things how you can do to adopt a powerful mobile strategy with little effort. 1. Advertise on Social Media 2. Gather Social Media Intelligence 3. Integrate Customer Engagement and Business Processes 4. Use Facebook Mobile App Install Ads 5. Test before Launch 6. Develop a “Mobile Power Team” 7. Improve App Store Ratings 8. Put Customer Needs First 9. Build Both Apps and Mobile Sites 10. Consider Time, Location, and Type of Device 11. Implement a Multi-screen Marketing Strategy 12. Capitalize on Market Trends KISSmetrics

One of the most effective ways to research your target market is through surveys. With so many great survey tools available it might seem easy to cobble one together. But if you want to gather actionable data that gives you deep insights, you need to understand the science and nuance behind creating a good survey (which requires data analysis chops, a knack for psychology and copy skills, among other things). KISSMetrics

Quick insights: Myth #1: Change your title often to adapt to high-ranking searches. Truth: Pick a title and stick with it Myth #2: Keywords aren’t that important. Truth: Keywords are important. Myth #3: It’s all about the ratings. Truth: Ratings are important, but not the end all. Myth #4: As long as it’s on the store people will find it. Truth: It needs a lot of downloads to get recognized. Myth #5: Description is not very important. Truth: Description is very important. KISSmetrics App Store Optimization Monthly

nice approach for early field failure analysis Quality Assurance: Feedback Analysis Social Media Tracking Following the launch of iOS 8 to the public yesterday, Apple employees in Cupertino are working to locate and remedy iOS 8 bugs that are popping up. As described by one Reddit user, the company has a "War Room" at Apple where employees are tracking down issues on social media. MacRumors

Quick Summary: # 7 Go for the bottom-line (outcomes) # 6 Reporting is not Analysis # 5 Depersonalize decision making # 4 Proactive insights rather than reactive # 3 Empower your analysts # 2 Solve for the Trinity # 1: Got Process? # 0 Ownership of web analytics: Business Avinash Kaushik Author, Digital Marketing Evangelist - Google, Co-founder - Market Motive Kaushik.net

Apple will collect a fee from banks every time consumers use the company's new Apple Pay payments solution, reports Bloomberg. Citing three individuals close to the matter, the report notes that Apple struck individual deals with each bank it has partnered with. Those banks include JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and more. MacRumors

Technology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives. But will these machines ultimately connect or conquer us? Case offers surprising insight into our cyborg selves. TED Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now

Sand Babel ist die Vision eines Netzwerks aus mehreren, 3D gedruckten Wolkenkratzern in der Wüste – mithilfe von Sand und Sonnenenergie. Wirtschafts Woche Green

Nice animated graphic: August 2013 versus August 2014 Open Signal

You want X lines of text. Anything after that, gracefully cut off. That's "line clamping" and it is a perfectly legit desire. And WebKit offers a nice CSS for that: .line-clamp {   display: -webkit-box;   -webkit-line-clamp: 3;   -webkit-box-orient: vertical;   } CSS Tricks

The Biggest Lesson I Learned as an Apple Designer is a thoughtful piece that pushes back on the standard advice given out today of creating an MVP (minimum viable product) and learning as you go. It comes from a former Apple designer, Mark Kawano (who also wrote about Apple’s design culture), and suggests that MVPs just don’t make sense within the Apple process. Instead of “launching and learning”, Apple waits until their products are much more mature and offer a more complete experience. bokardo

WKWebView Framework API Differences WKWebView ↔︎ UIWebView JavaScript ↔︎ Swift Communication If your app is little more than a thin container around web content, WKWebView is a game-changer. All of that performance and compatibility that you've longed for is finally available. It's everything you might have hoped for. If you're more of a native controls purist, you may be surprised at the power and flexibility afforded by the new technologies in iOS 8. It's a dirty secret that some stock apps like Messages use WebKit to render tricky content. The fact that you probably haven't noticed should be an indicator that web views actually have a place in app development best practices. NSHipster

Before you develop your app, it’s important to become familiar with the technical, content, and design criteria that we use to review all apps. We’ve highlighted some of the most common issues that cause apps to get rejected to help you better prepare your apps before submitting them for review. Top 10: 14% More information needed 8% Guideline 2.2: Apps that exhibit bugs will be rejected 6% Did not comply with terms in the Developer Program License Agreement 6% Guideline 10.6: Apple and our customers place a high value on simple, refined, creative, well thought through interfaces. They take more work but are worth it. Apple sets a high bar. If your user interface is complex or less than very good, it may be rejected 5% Guideline 3.3: Apps with names, descriptions, or screenshots not relevant to the App content and functionality will be rejected 5% Guideline 22.2: Apps that contain false, fraudulent or misleading representations or use names or icons similar to other Apps w...

Tablet growth in the North American and European markets will be flat this year, according to IDC. The group revised its estimates after what it called a "second quarter of softer than expected demand." TechCrunch

Swift toolbox is a community-supported catalog of iOS and OSX libraries written in the Swift Programming Language. Swift Toolbox

Growing Android fragmentation — or device diversity if you prefer — has been visualized in a new report by crowdsourced cell phone signal startup OpenSignal, which has surveyed 682,000 devices to build its annual peek at Google’s mobile OS ecosystem. TechCrunch

New iPhone 6 Images Depict Rear Shell and Front Panel Together for the First Time. MacRumors

Though developers may not see another beta version, a new report from BGR claims Apple has released a sixth iOS 8 beta to its testing partners. The release would explain conflicting rumors as to whether there would be a sixth beta version if this version is made available only to carriers and other partners for testing rather than the broader developer community. MacRumors

XCTestCase Performance Testing asynchronous Testing with XCTestExpectation Mocking With Xcode 6, we've finally arrived: the built-in testing tools are now good enough to use on their own. That is to say, there are no particularly compelling reasons to use any additional abstractions in order to provide acceptable test coverage for the vast majority apps and libraries. Except in extreme cases that require extensive stubbing, mocking, or other exotic test constructs, XCTest assertions, expectations, and performance measurements should be sufficient. NSHipster

Project documentation from framework API reference documentation and structured comments in your own source code are displayed in the quick help panel and in code completion popover views. Doxygen and HeaderDoc structured comments are supported formats. What's New in Xcode

Multipeer Connectivity is a framework that enables nearby devices to communicate over infrastructure Wi-Fi networks, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth personal area networks. Connected peers are able securely transmit messages, streams, or file resources to other devices without going through an intermediary web service. NSHipster Apple Developer

Nice assembled list of tools and blogs. iOS Dev Tools is a list showcasing the greatest iOS development tools, including websites, desktop and mobile apps, and back-end services. I've tried to group the tools into logical categories and will mark any newly added tools as NEW. This list is not complete - I hope it grows as more and more fantastic development tools are made. If you have any suggestions for tools that you would like to see added to the list, please let me know by email, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or App.net. ios.devtools.me

Alamofire is an HTTP networking library written in Swift. Think of it as AFNetworking, reimagined for the conventions of this new language. Of course, AFNetworking remains the premiere networking library available for Mac OS X and iOS, and can easily be used in Swift, just like any other Objective-C code. AFNetworking is stable and reliable, and isn't going anywhere. But for anyone looking for something a little more idiomatic to Swift, Alamofire may be right up your alley. (It's not a mutually-exclusive choice, either! AFNetworking & Alamofire will peacefully co-exist within the same codebase.) GitHub

override func viewDidLoad() {  super.viewDidLoad()  // blur  let blur = UIVisualEffectView(effect: UIBlurEffect(style: UIBlurEffectStyle.Light))  blur.frame = view.frame  view.addSubview(blur) } iOS Swift Blog

Great Tumblr Blog about iOS programming. G8Production

xcpretty is designed to be piped with xcodebuild and thus keeping 100% compatibility with it. It's even a bit faster than xcodebuild only, since it saves your terminal some prints. Important: If you're running xcpretty on a CI like Travis or Jenkins, you may want to exit with same status code as xcodebuild. CI uses the status code to determine if build has failed. GitHub

binpress: Marketplace for Vommercial and Open-Source Projects BinPress

A tiny category on UIView that allows you to set one property: parallaxIntensity to achieve a parallax effect with UIMotionEffect. GitHub

The easiest way for mobile developers to get started on Google Cloud Platform Optional server-side coding: Control your cloud service using Android and iOS client libraries. Cloud Datastore: Store millions of objects in the cloud and manage them from your app. Push Notifications: Send and broadcast objects as messages via Apple Push Notifications and Google Cloud Messaging. Event Driven Programming: Create real-time interactive user experiences using Continuous Queries. User authentication Authenticate users using Google Accounts. Per-object access: Prevent users from accessing private data using our authentication model. Built to scale: Mobile backend runs on App Engine infrastructure to scale to millions of users within hours (App Engine pricing applies). Developers Google

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If you’re building a product, you have to be great at saying no. Not “maybe” or “later”. The only word is no. InsideIntercom.io

Did you know that Android has a built-in mechanism for locating or locking your lost phone? Google hasn’t done the best job marketing it, but it’s actually been baked right in since the release of Android 4.4*. TechCrunch

Zwar werden schon länger mehr Android-Geräte als iOS-Smartphones und -Tablets ausgeliefert, bei den aktiven Nutzern lag Apples OS bisher aber vorne - das hat sich jetzt geändert. Auch Windows Phone konnte seine Position verbessern. Juli 2014 Android 44,62% iOS 44,19% Windows Phone 2,49% Golem

According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments reached 295 million units in the second quarter of 2014. The Android operating system captured a new record of 85 percent global marketshare, mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows Phone. Strategy Analytics

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Here you find the Swift Blog with RSS Feed available. A must read for all Swift Newbies. Apple Swift Blog

Sowohl Apple (14,3 Milliarden) als auch Google (5 Milliarden) haben inzwischen Zahlen zum Umsatz ihrer App-Läden im vergangenen Jahr veröffentlicht. Die Ausgaben für Software im App Store liegen um das Doppelte über denen im Google Play Store. Golem

Nice stats covering App introduced per month per device type Killed and live apps per category App Discovery Challenges User Loyality TechCrunch

ShiftIt is an application for OSX that allows you to quickly manipulate window position and size using keyboard shortcuts. It intends to become a full featured window organizer for OSX. It is a complete rewrite of the original ShiftIt by Aravindkumar Rajendiran which is not longer under development. GitHub

Statistics 2014 PC Market versus Tablet Market versus Mobile Phones in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Shipments by Operating System 2013, 2014 and 2015. TechCrunch

Privacy and Security of our data is something that’s increasingly valuable to us. While we cannot forget Apple is a large corporation with its legal requirements and was indeed part of the companies supplying the Government Agencies with customer data — just like Google, Microsoft, and many others. The latest updates to iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite introduce some very welcomed changes to the way Security and Privacy is dealt with on these platforms and may serve as an inspiration for others. Location Camera Contacts Kids Safari Keychain and Authentication HomeKit HealthKit CloudKit Handoff iTunes Connect Advertising Identifier Wi-Fi MAC Address Notifications Extensions Changes to Settings Privacy Best Practices Luis Abreu

This section aggregates design information about all the available controls into a single place for ease of access and quick reference. It describes the standard controls that are available without customization. It also provides an example of usage in a real app for each control. All the controls in this section are included in the templates for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. See Downloads to get the templates. MSDN

Github supports a number of image formats such as PNG, JPG, GIF, and PSD. Similar to how we compare codes, we first select the image and click the History button. Below the image, you will see the list of ways to compare the image, namely 2-Up, Swipe, and Onion Skin. HongKiat.com

Android In The Car Android TV and Android In The Home Android 5.0 A recently revealed project called Quantum Paper looks to be set to bring a total redesign to Android software via distinct new guidelines, and Polymer is said to be a framework to hep make that happen via customizable, reusable interface elements. TechCrunch

Most notably, Google Play quarterly app revenue – a number that tends to trail that of Apple’s iOS App Store – has more than doubled over the past year, up 2.4x from Q1 2013 to Q1 2014, App Annie says. TechCrunch

The Highlights: Firefly Text, Audio, Video AND Object recognition on real world objects! With the ActiveWidget  Feature you can attach your service to objects recognized with Firefly 3D-Display Observing your view on the screen and produces a 3D experience Dynamic Perspective Gyroscope- or user view depending UI navigation and interaction

The developers of these exceptional apps combined design and technology in creative, compelling, and powerful ways. Learn more about the winning apps of 2014 and the developers behind them. Great examples to adopt design ideas. Sky Guide: View Stars Night or Day Cinemagraph Pro Storehouse - Visual Storytelling Monument Valley Threes! DEVICE 6 Blek Leo’s Fortune Day One Yahoo News Digest Teachley: Addimal Adventure PanoPerfect Apple Design Awards

The ability to recycle slots is only available from the start of a membership year until the time you add your first new device, so be certain to remove all of the devices you no longer require before adding any new ones. Once you've added a new device, you will be unable to recycle additional device slots until your next membership year begins. Apple Developer News

Die iOS-App Seene soll bald Gegenstände abfilmen und als 3D-Modell rekonstruieren können. Der Anwender führt das iPhone dazu einfach langsam um den Gegenstand herum. Golem

Apple hat in einem ausführlichen Dokument aufgelistet, welche Kundendaten das Unternehmen an die US-Strafverfolgungsbehörden geben kann. Sie können selbst aus passwortgeschützten iOS-Geräten und der iCloud kommen. Letztlich kann alles, was in der iCloud oder in den Backups von iOS-Geräten gespeichert wurde, auch entschlüsselt und herausgegeben werden, inklusive Logdateien. Nach Apples Angaben sind die Daten in der iCloud Keychain verschlüsselt und ermöglichen keinen Zugriff. Golem

At the 12th eBay Tech Talk, our guest speaker Jon Reid talked about test driven software development and how to apply it to iOS programming. Technology ebay

Google introduced add-ons for Google Docs and Sheets. These add-ons allow you to add all kinds of functionality to your documents, including signing faxes, creating bibliographies, and more. While it's still in its infancy, here are a few of the best add-ons available at launch. HelloFax Mapping Sheets EasyBib UberConference MindMeister Track Changes Make your own Lifehacker

Die Newsreader-App Paper von Facebook steht seit Ende Januar bereit. Nun ist die Animations-Engine von Paper als Open Source zur Verwendung in anderen iOS-Apps verfügbar. Golem Facebook Code GitHub

Basic HTML Meta Tags OpenGraph Meta Tags Create Custom Meta Tags Company/Service Meta Tags ClaimID Apple Meta Tags Internet Explorer Meta Tags TweetMeme Meta Tags Blog Catalog Meta Tags Rails Meta Tags Apple Tags HTML Link Tags Other Resources Lance Pollard

Part 1: Three Flaws in Software Design - Part 1: Writing Code that isn't Needed Part 2: Not Making the Code Easy to Change Part 3: Being Too Generic Part 4: Incremental Development & Design + Wrap-up Code Simplicity Presentation

E-Commerce: Worauf es bei der Wahl des Payment-Providers ankommt Der Internethandel boomt weiter und immer mehr neue und etablierte Händler steigen auf den E-Commerce-Zug auf. Allerdings haben viele Kunden noch Vorbehalte, was die Sicherheit während des Online-Einkaufs angeht. Mit dem Anbieten der richtigen Bezahlmöglichkeit und unter Berücksichtigung einiger Regeln können Shopbetreiber viele Bedenken ihrer potenziellen Kunden zerstreuen. t3n Online Zahlungsanbieter - Der ultimative Marktüberblick Diverse Studien belegen, dass die in einem Online-Shop angebotenen Zahlungsarten signifikanten Einfluss auf die Conversionrate und demnach den Erfolg eines Shops ausüben. Mit dem vorliegenden Artikel, möchten wir versuchen, etwas Licht in das manchmal doch ziemlich dunkle Payment-Umfeld in Deutschland zu bringen. eStrategy

Microsofts mobiles Betriebssystem Windows Phone wird in Europa immer häufiger verkauft. In Italien sind sogar zuletzt mehr Windows Phones als iPhones verkauft worden. In China und Japan hingegen gehen die Verkaufszahlen von Windows Phone zurück. Area Mobile

Android-Geräte stürzen seltener ab als iOS-Geräte - so das Ergebnis einer aktuellen Studie. Generell laufen Smartphones außerdem zuverlässiger als Tablets. Unterm Strich weisen aber beide Mobilbetriebssysteme eine vergleichsweise hohe Stabilität auf. Golem

ParcelKit integrates Core Data with Dropbox using the Dropbox Datastore API. iOS-Blog

Seine Bluetooth-Erweiterung iBeacon hat Apple in Millionen Geräte integriert. Die Technik verbessert die Standorterkennung in geschlossenen Räumen und könnte das Leben grundlegend verändern. die Navigation und Präsentation von Informationen im Museum das Dirigieren von Bahnfahrern zum richtigen Bahnsteig und Wagen Rabattprogramme und Kundenkarten Abholbenachrichtigungen für vorbestellte Waren beim Betreten des Ladens die Automatisierung von Gebäudefunktionen wie Heizung, Licht und Jalousiestellung Hinweise auf die Stadion-Einlasskontrolle mit den kürzesten Wartezeiten Live-Umfragen unter Teilnehmern einer Vortragsveranstaltung kostenlose Lektüre einer Zeitschrift beim Aufenthalt in einem Café Bereitstellung der Tageskarte eines Restaurants auf dem Smartphone Golem

A better search experience for apps and users with linking to in-app content. Google is working with app developers and webmasters to index the content of apps and relate them to websites. When relevant, Google Search results on Android will include deep links to apps. App Indexing

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Here is a bunch of things I learned building 7 Minute Workout for Android, I hope you find them useful. Note that not everything I compare below is an exact match and it's not a complete overview of Android developent, but it does cover everything I learned building a simple app. Stuart Hall

A free design prototyping toolkit for Quartz Composer. Most designers today create static mockups to communicate app ideas. But increasingly apps are anything but static, which means as designers we need a better tool for interaction design. Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming. Origami on GitHub Video on Vimeo

Combining a strong colour with a blurred and translucent UINavigationBar in iOS 7. // cheers to @stroughtonsmith for helping out with this one UIColor *barColour = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.13f green:0.14f blue:0.15f alpha:1.00f];      UIView *colourView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.f, -20.f, 320.f, 64.f)]; colourView.opaque = NO; colourView.alpha = .7f; colourView.backgroundColor = barColour;      self.navigationBar.barTintColor = barColour;      [self.navigationBar.layer insertSublayer:colourView.layer atIndex:1]; GitHub Gist See also iOS7-Trans-Blur And also myView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; UIToolbar* bgToolbar = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:myView.frame]; bgToolbar.barStyle = UIBarStyleDefault; [myView.superview insertSubview:bgToolbar belowSubview:myView]; Why bother replicating the effect? Just draw a UIToolbar behind your view. StackOverflow

How to automatically document APIs and at the same time automatically provide testing functionality. Connecting the dots in API development Web API Language Pure Markdown Designed for Humans Understandable by Machines Powerful Tooling Easy Lifecycle API Blueprint Swagger is a specification and complete framework implementation for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. The overarching goal of Swagger is to enable client and documentation systems to update at the same pace as the server. The documentation of methods, parameters, and models are tightly integrated into the server code, allowing APIs to always stay in sync. With Swagger, deploying managing, and using powerful APIs has never been easier. Swagger

OCLint is well know tool doing static code analyzing, for c, c++ and objc. It’s not only stylistic analysis, but also some metrics based, complicated analysis able to detect too complicated logics in code (the simpler the code – the better it is) which is far most useful then XCode’s native static analyzer which is mostly about memory management. Learn how to integrate OCLint in Xcode Gavrix

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Anstelle des kleinen Bildschirms vom iPhone sollen Fahrer von Ferrari, Mercedes und Volvo bald auch das Display ihrer Autos zur Anzeige der iOS-Navigation und der Anruffunktion von Apples Betriebssystem nutzen können. Verfügbar in ausgewählten Autos ab 2014. Apple CarPlay Golem

One reason TeamCity is dubbed an "Intelligent CI server" is its approach to integration. When we say we support a tool, we mean it in every way possible. For example, support for Visual Studio projects provides automatic detection of tool versions, testing frameworks support, code coverage, static code analysis, and more. And the best thing is, you get all this support without installing any plugins and with no modifications to build scripts! Java, .NET, Ruby, Xcode, C++, Python, Ruby, PHP, ... JetBrains TeamCity

Increase your reading speed to lightspeed! Reading is inherently time consuming because your eyes have to move from word to word and line to line. Traditional reading also consumes huge amounts of physical space on a page or screen, which limits reading effectiveness on small displays. Scrolling, pinching, and resizing a reading area doesn’t fix the problem and only frustrates people. Now, with compact text streaming from Spritz, content can be streamed one word at a time, without forcing your eyes to spend time moving around the page. Spritz makes streaming your content easy and more comfortable, especially on small displays. Our “Redicle” technology enhances readability even more by using horizontal lines and hash marks to direct your eyes to the red letter in each word, so you can focus on the content that interests you. Best of all, Spritz’s patent-pending technology can integrate into photos, maps, videos, and websites to promote more effective communication. Sp...