So, I bit the apple 3 years ago and purchased my first iPhone (3G). I was so amazed by the functionality and power that I was now holding in the palm of my hand. This great device was changing how I went about doing so many things that I started to forget how I ever [...]

One concern when developing for Android devices is supporting the various screens that are available. Android does a fairly good job with this, by allowing various drawable directories for particular screens, and allowing layout configurations using density-independent pixel (dp) instructions. There is good information at developer.android.com regarding tips and best practices for supporting various screen [...]

Ok so it did not really take 10 seconds. I had been developing iPhone apps for a while; but an urgent need had arisen for someone to do an Android project and they asked if I would be willing to do it. Well, I like learning new things so I jumped in. For anyone else [...]

LinkedIn recently launched a new version of their mobile app, and while it has a host of new features, perhaps the most exciting part is in the backend development. As someone who is obviously addicted to apps, and using them on a daily basis, I was very excited to see LinkedIn’s new app. It features [...]

What will my mobile app cost me or my company? This must be one of the toughest questions in the hottest IT market right now; mobile application development.  I field this question every single working day and many weekends as well.  As you can imagine there are a multitude of factors that have to be [...]

When Amazon’s android app store launched not too long ago I think every developer smiled a bit. This was a new store with some compelling features, features that allowed users to try your app in a web browser before buying, and it has the potential to be the default store id Amazon decides to venture [...]

There are many factors to take into account when thinking about how to enhance the user experience for a mobile application or a mobile based web site. It’s important to keep in mind that a mobile device will provide an entirely different user experience compared to a desktop computer. Hardware limitations, screen sizes, input methods, [...]

In my experience the biggest danger in using code that is posted online is that you may end up investing a significant amount of time trying to understand it before realizing that it either doesn’t work as described or won’t work for your intended purpose. Having a good process that helps you make the decision [...]

Sometimes, ‘NO’ is just not enough.  There are many great features about XCode, the LLVM compiler, Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch libraries but sometimes they just don’t give enough information.  One such case is NSDictionary’s “-(BOOL)writeToURL:atomically:” method. I was working on a project, and I just wanted to store some information to the documents directory. [...]

Apple’s new patent can possibly cause a problem for other smartphone manufacturers who use touchscreen technology.