Apps for business are no longer about standing out from the crowd but keeping up with the competition. You may think that an app wouldn’t be relevant for your business, but it really could be. Apps can be developed for any industry and made to work for anyone. If there was any doubt about having…
British Red Cross Baby and Child – iOS and Android – Free This is a follow up to the generic first aid app launched by the British Red Cross not that long ago. It’s aimed at adults to focus on what to do if first aid is required for your child or baby specifically. Focusing…
Now that Jony Ive is heading up Apple’s design section, in his roles as head of Human Interface and leader of the Industrial Design departments, he will apparently stamp a distinctive style on the new version of iOS.
A new SDK for Android is on its way, based on IntelliJ IDEA. It is a welcome change for some, who have been frustrated by the messy, open-source Java building Eclipse software, with Android Studio, the new development environment, being the first dedicated development kit for Android developers. Previously, Android apps have been built using…
This week, developer Chris Maddern has released the code for his unofficial Facebook app, which allows you to upload photos taken with Glass directly to Facebook.
Festival Ready – Free – iOS and Android It’s rapidly approaching festival season and you may be getting ready to smell bad for three days, get rained on and watch very little of the music you actually paid to see. If you are, then our app of the week by Victorinox, one of the Swiss…
Google Glass has been available to hardcore fans and developers since the start of the year and the general release is due for Winter time. In an announcement last month, Google outlined the restrictions for third parties wanting to develop Glasswear (apps for the Google Glass device). In this announcement they were very clear about…
In a market dominated by iOS and Android, many people wrote Windows of in their early attempts to break into the smartphone market. But after a slow start, it is growing in size and reputation, with 25,000 apps released in the eight months between October and May, to hit 145,000 available apps. That short burst…
Love it or hate it, it’s been around since 1956 and isn’t going away anytime soon. It’ll clog up your TV, Twitter feed and Facebook Wall for one Saturday night in May every year – it’s Eurovision. This year the organisers have decided an app is required to accompany the annual singing competition.
When developing an app for iOS, Apple requires the use of provisioning profiles to ensure that the app is being developed and distributed by a trusted member of the Apple Developer Program. Here’s a quick introduction to iPhone app publishing Provisioning Profiles. Some have called the system overly complicated, and at first it does seem…