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.

Apple’s iOS 5 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch has a lot of new features for users and developers, including new notifications, iMessage, iCloud, and air play mirroring to Apple TVs.

Enabling paging in a UIScrollView will allow you to have a nice ‘snap-to’ effect. It’s exactly what you see when using the Photo app. I recently wanted to utilize this effect while displaying multiple pages on the screen but ran into a few issues. Problems and solutions below. Also, you can picture any ‘pages’ that [...]

Apple seems to be catching a wake up call in regards to their policy on In App Subscriptions. MacRumors.com just posted a great article on Apple’s latest policy reversal which, I believe, will be a welcome change for everyone in the app industry: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/09/apple-reverses-course-on-in-app-subscriptions/

Came across a pretty interesting video showing the activations of Android devices through January, 2011, I’d be interested to see a similar one for iPhone activations if anyone knows of any. Not sure we can learn much from this that we didn’t already know, but it looks really cool.

This is becoming more and more of a critical decision when looking to develop for the mobile marketplace.  For those of you who don’t know, a native app can be downloaded from a smart phone store such as iTunes, while a mobile web app has to be accessed through the mobile web browser and then bookmarked [...]

How to demo and test mobile web applications using Chrome and User Agents to simulate a mobile device.