Tweet Welcome to my second article published for AppDev Weekly, my column that I run of MobileOrchard. In this app development tutorial, I’ll be covering some simple programming using Xcode, Apple’s free Mac software used to develop iOS applications. In this tutorial, I’ll be demonstrating how to adjust the alpha transparency of an object, which [...]
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Automatically Track App Sale Referrals
Tweet Michael Tyson is an independent iOS developer, and runs a small artisan software development business called A Tasty Pixel. He’s passionate about creating outstanding user experiences, and spends his days sweatin’ the details from his mobile office, a motorhome called Nettle in which he and his partner are spending a few years exploring Europe. [...]
AppDev Weekly – Getting Potential Customers to Tap That ‘Buy Now’ Button (Part 1)
Tweet Hi all, and welcome to App Development Weekly, a weekly/bi-weekly column that I, your MobileOrchard blogger Charles, will be writing providing powerful tips and insight for firstly, creating great apps, and second of all, getting your great apps noticed. I’ll be primarily focusing on the iOS platform, but I might get into Mac development [...]
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 [...]
Optimizing Your Tutorial – How to Introduce Currency in a Virtual Economy
Tweet You can have 20 million users download you freemium application, but if only 2 of them spend more than 30 seconds in your app you have a problem! This week we will look at the ways currency can be introduced and the best way to introduce users to your games virtual economy. Dad to [...]
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 [...]
Using SQLite with iOS
Tweet ikhoyo (Bill Donahue) works in the publishing industry on UI’s for the internet and mobile devices (like the iPhone and iPad). You can see more on my blog. All of the code for this post can be found at GitHub. In my last post, I described how to compile your own version of SQLite [...]
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 [...]
Optimizing Your Tutorial – Simplicity Is Key
Tweet You can have 20 million users download you freemium application, but if only 2 of them spend more than 30 seconds in your app you have a problem! This week we will look at important elements for any successful tutorial with the focus on making every action as simple as possible No one likes [...]
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> [...]
