Tweet Everyone’s got a side project. Or at least they’ve got one in mind. It’s finding the time and the initiative to actually dive into it, that’s the tricky part. The thing is, anyone can do it. You just need a little push and some good advice. That’s where the SideProject eBook comes in. Stocked with dozens [...]
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Mobile App Design Starter Kit only $57
Tweet Why are your apps still UGLY? “I don’t have cash to spend on hiring a designer.” “If I had some cool templates or themes to work from I’d be all set.” “I don’t want to hire a designer. I’d rather learn to do it myself!” Well good news. It is for these reasons the Mobile [...]
1,500 Royalty Free Vector Icons
Tweet Great icons are invaluable for designers. Icons that provide not only fantastic design but also versatility are even better. Inventicon icons are vectorized, offering unlimited scalability. You can also easily change the color, orientation, or shape, without sacrificing quality. Also included are gradient styles, which can be applied to any icon, for even more versatility. All icons are [...]
Pandora UI for iOS Apps – only $29!
Tweet Designing mobile apps can be tricky. Trying to cram a lot of information into a small area, while still looking slick and appealing is no easy feat. That’s why so many of today’s self-made apps have such a poor design and are far from user friendly. But it doesn’t have to be that way. [...]
SmarterSocial: uberVU Helps Social Marketers Work Smarter, Not Harder
Tweet uberVU, a proven social monitoring and engagement system for the enterprise, announced today Version 2.0 of its social marketing platform, with unprecedented insights that enable social marketers to work smarter – not harder. The uberVU platform now provides a complete and intelligent loop for multitasking social marketers – going beyond staid practices of simple listening, mention [...]
iOS Tab Bar and Toolbar Icons by IconBeast
Tweet IconBeast Pro is a set of iOS tab bar and toolbar icons specially designed for iOS app development. Currently, IconBeast Pro consists of 1280 vector icons. According to the author (Charlene), the next update is expected to be released on early next year. All previous and future customers of IconBeast Pro will be able [...]
Android App Development: Implementing Search activities
Tweet Most Android phones have a search button. this button is used to search contacts,applications or anything on the phone. We can make use of the search functionality in our apps. In this post we’re going to see how to implement search functionality to search for entries stored in a databaseand display them in a [...]
Android App Development: Implementing remote Android Services with AIDL
Tweet In the last post we saw how to use Android services to do time consuming operations in the background. in this post we will see how can a client application call the methods of a service defined in another application. this is achieved through Android Interface Definition Language (AIDL). AIDL is a java like [...]
Android App Development: Android Services
Tweet Android Service is used for long-running processes that do not require user interaction, such as calling a web service and parsing response. Or processes that need to be running even if the application that started the service is not on the foreground such as playing mp3 files in a music player. we need to [...]
Android App Development: Parsing Web Service Response part 1
Tweet In a previous last post we saw how to call REST and SOAP web services. The web service reponse can be one of the following: XML. SOAP. JSON. Parsing XML Android offers three types of XML parsers: DOM Parser. Pull Parser. SAX Parser. we’ll demonstrate each using the following xml example: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <person> [...]
