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Disney Infinity 20 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm

Disney Infinity is a fascinating game. I had high hopes before it’s release. Disney has a lot of great characters, and Disney Interactive has done some really interesting, innovative things over the....

Android vs iOS Development Estimates 31 Jul 2013 | 08:22 am

I’ve built Android software and I’ve built iOS software.  I much prefer developing on iOS so that’s what I spend most of my time doing, but I’ve done enough Android to have my two cents to contribute ...

Upgrade Pricing and Used Apps 16 Jul 2013 | 06:43 pm

The Mac and iOS App Stores don’t offer upgrade pricing, and they probably never will. Apple’s model for apps is akin to physical products.  If you bought a toaster last year, and this year a new toas...

Measuring glyphs on iOS 26 May 2013 | 05:58 pm

Between Resume Designer and Unicode Character Viewer, I’ve done a fair bit of laying out text by hand on iOS. Part of laying out text is measuring it. And iOS sucks at that. Here are two examples. In ...

Be Careful What You Wish For 20 May 2013 | 06:52 pm

Last week Google IO, Google introduced their new app analytics for the Google Play platform.  This will make it possible for app developers to learn how users are discovering their apps.  Developers w...

Withings Scale Gateway for Status Board 9 May 2013 | 08:18 am

My son is a Status Board fan.  I’m not sure why; he just loves adding and arranging panels.   I recently picked up a Withings WS-50 scale, which has an API that you can use to query weight and other d...

BeeTrainer 4 May 2013 | 07:37 am

I’m definitely a “scratch your own itch” kind of developer.  I like building apps that I plan to use myself – it’s very rewarding to be using my own apps. Earlier this year, my son was in a spelling b...

Finding a Profitable Niche in the App Store 2 May 2013 | 01:56 am

Trevor McKendrick has a post, the first in his ten-part series on his first year in the App Store, on How to Choose a Profitable Niche within the App Store. This is a great topic.  I submitted a blitz...

NSNorth Wrapup 22 Apr 2013 | 08:09 am

I spent the weekend at the new NSNorth conference in Ottawa. This was a small iOS developer conference in the spirit of Cingleton, and NSConference, put on my Dan Byers and Philippe Casgrain. It was a...

Discoverability 12 Apr 2013 | 05:52 pm

One thing I learned from having apps in the store is that users don’t always get iOS UI conventions. Resume Designer has a view that shows you your collection of documents.  Each document has a long-p...

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