August 2012
1 post
Tweetification
Twitter have seemingly stopped granting 3rd party apps access to push messaging. Poll notification systems are not optimum for battery life, and my Galaxy Nexus needs all the freaking help it can get. As fellow geeks I’m assuming most of us use 3rd party apps. Earlier today Chris Lacy was discussing notifications for Tweet Lanes and I made a wacky suggestion of using SMS. This was not a good...
Aug 16th
June 2012
8 posts
3 tags
if (AndroidTabletApps < iPadApps)
We, as Android users, constantly hear how nobody develops Android tablet apps, and how there are only a few hundred Android tablet apps available in the Play Store yada yada. At the same time we hear how the iPad has thousands. Whilst I’m sure this is technically true, I also think there are valid reasons behind it. I’m going to take my own app as an example here. Sleepy Sounds was written at...
Jun 30th
2 tags
if (iOSCerts > 10)
I have many problems with xcode.. but here is my biggest…. certificates. I have certificates coming out of my ears (provisioning, debug, distribution, push etc ). Is there any need?!?! Can’t Apple just provide one.. like Android? Argh!!!
Jun 19th
Boolean awayForWeek = true;
Away with the family this week, struggling not to think about development. Still seeing Google Play ratings / comments and want to fix them.
Jun 13th
4 tags
bool excitedForWWDC = YES;
A lot has changed in the last year. Rewind one year and I was a bit of an Android Fanboy. I can remember last year taking to Twitter to chastise the introduction of the swipe down notification center. Since then I started to take my mobile development seriously and expanded to develop for iOS. I still have an allegiance to Android, and use it as my daily device … but I am looking forward...
Jun 10th
4 tags
String unfairTreatment = "Marco Arment"
 So Marco Arment seems to have received alot of hate from the Android community. Unfairly in my opinion. I think his comments on Build & Analyse about the difficulty developing for Android (quoting pixel densities and form factors) were not completely correct. I personally find the tools in ADT get around this quite easily. I also think he was right to go to a development house to get...
Jun 10th
7 tags
String[] OS = {"Linux", "Windows", "OS X"};
With the impending release of Windows 8 I am starting to feel like Linux is my route forward. I’ve used Linux off and on for years but never as my main OS. I can code for Android in Linux and …. that’s it. Windows Phone forces you to use Windows to code for it. iOS forces you to use OS X to code for it. So could I use Virtual Box instead? Have a Windows VM and OS X86 VM? OS...
Jun 10th
Night Off / Windows Phone
So my first real entry on this development blog is to say I’m having a night off. The last couple of weeks have been manic. Trademark issues forced me to re-brand 2 apps across Apple iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon App Store. As well as that I’ve been working on a new iPhone app for a local business. I signed up to develop Windows Phone apps too late last year. Microsoft were kind...
Jun 9th
Obligatory First Post
Decided to try and have a go at a tumblr blog. I’m an independent mobile app developer for Android, iOS and Windows Phone. I expect this blog to be mainly gripes about objective-c / xcode. Links to important announcements and my reactions to them, and other.
Jun 9th