iOS & Android Development

In review Auto-Renewables need to accept receipts from the sandbox environment, because app is redirected to the sandbox. How to do that? Choosing Apple Receipt Server - Alternatives: Smart production-signed App App knows live version, selects Dev’s QA or production server Smart production server Client passes version Server knows live version, selects Apple’s Sandbox or production server Reactive production server Server always tries Apple production first If gets 21007, tries Apple sandbox

Android and Apple together now account for nearly 70 percent of smartphone subscribers in the U.S., according to new estimates for July put out today by comScore. Android phones command nearly 42 percent market share, while Apple’s iPhone grew slightly to capture 27 percent. Android is growing faster, up 5.4 percent from April and up 1.7 percent from June, whereas Apple’s share is up 1 percent for the three-month period and 0.4 percent fro the previous month. TechCrunch

For quite some time I ranted about not being able to use compressed network communcation out-of-the-box on the iPhone. Despite being undocumented (or I just overlooked the hint), NSURLConnection does gzip decompression transparently! That’s how to use it: NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData timeoutInterval:60.0]; // set explicitly: [request setValue:@"gzip" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Encoding"]; MRo BLOG

Meet iEmu, a new project from one of the iPhone’s earliest hackers. The goal? To get iOS up and running in an emulated state on Linux, Windows, Mac, and Android. TechCrunch

As for parents with kids who have iOS devices of their own, there are a couple of options. One alternative is to set it up so your child can’t purchase anything from the App Store or iTunes Store. If you favor a somewhat more independent approach, you can also choose to manage your child’s purchases by setting up a monthly allowance. Macworld

Bizness Apps’s value proposition is simple: The startup wants to make mobile apps affordable, customizable, and simple to make for the small business owner. Thus, the startup offers a DIY iPhone, iPad, and Android app platform that enables SMBs to create, edit, and manage mobile apps without any programming experience required. You start with a template, customize them to suit your business, and then Bizness Apps makes them native apps and distributes them on iTunes and the Android Marketplace. TechCrunch

Der Kampf zwischen Apple und Samsung nimmt kuriose Züge an. Nun müssen schon Filmklassiker als Beweis herhalten, dass Apple Tablets in der Art des iPad nicht erfunden hat. Samsung hat erste Tablets schon im Jahr 1968 in einem Science-Fiction-Film ausgemacht. Golem