Free Hint library for iOS on github

09 April 2012 Written by Stefan 3 Comments

While we were working our newest iOS app: musicr ( coming soon, check out its website ), we needed some way to display some sort of hints, alerts and guides to the user. Those hints needed to be presented in a non-modal fashion and had to be somewhat customizable. We created a small little library [...]

Apps and Mock Web Services

09 August 2011 Written by Stefan 1 Comment

Most mobile apps need to interact with a remote web service to obtain information that the app can display or to send user submitted content such as comments or photos. When we start working on a new project, we often times find ourselves in a situation where the web service that the apps need to [...]

Cross-platform development: Necessity or burden?

07 September 2010 Written by Stefan 0 Comments

Currently there is a large number of different operating systems for mobile devices out there. While just about five years ago there were much fewer platforms competing for the mobile user ( Symbian, Palm®, Windows® Mobile ), this has changed dramatically in recent years. Apple’s iOS platform as well as Google’s Android™ based devices and [...]