196 posts tagged "akosma software"

Swiss App Awards 2012 Winners!

We proudly present the winners of Swiss App Awards 2012: Best User Experience App: Pilotifant for iOS, by WIRZ/Millform AG Most Downloaded App: SBB Mobile for multiple platforms, by SBB AG Best Web App: AppAware for Android, by 42matters AG Best Game App: MonsterUp for Windows Phone, by kariosgames.com Best Bank App: MoneyBook for iOS, by noidentity gmbh People’s Prize: Swisscom Fan-Glocke for iOS, by Swisscom AG/DU DA Group/Saatchi&Saatchi App of the Year: Pilotifant for iOS, by WIRZ/Millform AG Interestingly enough, the contest was truly cross-platform, and there were winners on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and other platforms.

Advanced iOS 4.2 Training Course – Zürich, February 7th and 8th 2011 – Enroll now!

akosma software is happy to announce the Advanced iOS 4.2 Training Course jointly organized with Trifork GmbH. This course requires that the attendees are familiar with Objective-C and have developed at least a few simple iPhone applications. The attendees should bring their own MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro with the latest iOS SDK installed. This class will take the attendees through the following subjects:

swissinfo.ch iPad application

We are thrilled and extremely proud to announce a new iPad application: this time is swissinfo.ch, an innovative news reader application for swissinfo, the heir of the now extinct Swiss Radio International which ceased broadcasting back in 1999. swissinfo.ch offers an international and Swiss perspective on major news around the world, in 9 languages, updated every day with exclusive content. swissinfo.ch is a branch of the SRG, the state-owned media conglomerate. This iPad app was developed by akosma software, and was released to the public in December 11, 2010.

Article dans com.in Magazine

Le 7 septembre dernier, à Zurich, s’est tenu “Mobile App Stores”, un colloque à propos des plus importants systèmes de distribution de software pour téléphones mobiles. Au programme, des présentations de l’App Store de Apple, de l’App World de BlackBerry, l’Ovi Store de Nokia et également sur des applications web mobiles, construites avec les derniers standards tels que HTML5 et CSS3. Le ton a été donné d’emblée. Marc Carrette et Rami Omari de Sogeti (du groupe Cap Gemini) ont clairement mis en relief l’impact économique qu’ont eu les App Stores depuis 2005. A ce jour, plus de 250'000 applications y sont enregistrées. Ce n’est donc pas un hasard si Apple considère son App Store comme “le plus important événement dans l’histoire du software mobile.”

JAOO 2010

It’s that time of the year again: JAOO 2010 is getting closer, with sessions and workshops from Sunday October 3rd to Friday 8th. JAOO has been held since 1996, and it is a multi-language, non-vendor focused, eclectic, flexible conference where you can learn about those technologies you’ve never heard about, or those you never had the time to explore in depth. I can’t but recommend to any software engineer to attend, given the breadth and the quality of the presentations.

Core Text Objective-C Wrapper

One of the most promising and mysterious new frameworks introduced in iOS 3.2 is Core Text. Apple defines Core Text as a “text drawing engine”, which allows Mac (and now iPad) apps to render rich text on any graphics context. Strings drawn with Core Text feature lots of custom settings such as detailed font information, columns, variable line and paragraph heights and several different attributes, which designers and font aficionados surely understand much better than I do. Many new apps have been using this framework since the release of the iPad, particularly newspapers and ebook reader applications, rendering gorgeous text in custom fonts, many of them not available natively in iOS. This framework is also used in lifestyle and corporate applications, too, where using a custom font is sometimes required to match the specifications of brands and trademarks.

"Dev Day for iPhone" sur Le Temps

«Face à cette demande, il manque des développeurs pour iPhone en Suisse. Nous devons être une centaine en Suisse romande et n’arrivons pas à répondre à toutes les offres» confirme Stephan Burlot, de la société Coriolis, à Chevilly (VD). «Bon, de nombreux développeurs viennent du monde de l’open source et ne sont pas forcément à l’aise avec le monde plus fermé d’Apple», sourit Adrian Kosmaczewski, directeur d’Akosma Software, à Pully.

Objective-C Categories as Stylesheets

It is very important that iPhone and iPad applications use visual styles in a coherent way. This helps users learn how to use your application faster, it helps them scan your UI for important information as quickly as possible, and it also can convey a strong marketing message; companies who want iPhone or iPad applications often have complex visual identities, including predefined fonts and colors, and they will want their applications to match those choices.

iPhone Apps without Objective-C

Yes, it’s possible. Even if Objective-C is one of my preferred programming languages, in any case I think it’s worth mentioning that, 2 years after the official iPhone SDK has been announced, the iPhone development landscape has really grown up, and many, many different options are available today. This article provides a very high-level enumeration of some options I’ve found on the web, but I’m sure there are even more alternatives around.

Notitas Press Release

Press release on prmac.com, Breaking Windows, TechWhack, MacCrazy, AppPodcast, 148apps, WPZines, MacTrack, MacMegasite, Desinformado, iFones, AppleUsers.org, MacOSXNews, Charged. akosma software today is pleased to announce Notitas 1.0 (“little notes” in Spanish), a geographically-aware virtual board where you can post text notes of any kind, change their font, their color, share them via e-mail and Twitter, and view the exact location where you created them.

Code Organization in Xcode Projects

Xcode does not impose any structure to your source code tree. This is both cool and useful to quickly throw a couple of lines for a prototype, but in my experience, this approach does not scale. More often than not, without any hygiene, your project can become a mess. Just using Xcode defaults, after a while your resources will sit beside your .xcodeproj file, all the project classes will be thrown together in the Classes folder, and if you have a relatively large project, this approach makes finding individual files painful.

Article on the Tages Anzeiger

Zum Umdenken hat Apple selber aktiv beigetragen, indem der Konzern das iPhone im Sommer 2008 für aussenstehende Entwickler öffnete und auf die extreme Geheimhaltung der früheren Jahre verzichtete. Seither kamen schon mehr als 50 000 Anwendungen zustande, und Hunderte von Entwicklern erzielen damit ein regelmässiges Einkommen. «Es sind diese selbstständigen Programmierer, die Apple das Sektiererische nehmen», meint Adrian Kosmaczewski, ein Entwickler aus Lausanne, der zusammen mit zwei Kollegen angereist ist und kurz davor steht, ein eigenes Unternehmen für iPhone-Anwendungen zu gründen. «Apple war wie eine königliche Familie, leicht verdorben und leicht durchgeknallt. Entwickler wie wir, die von aussen dazustossen, bringen das nötige frische Blut.»

iPhone SDK 3.0: A New Beginning

Last year I blogged about the upcoming SDK 2.0 for the iPhone 3G, and boy did it change my life. For those who haven’t followed closely everything that happened in this blog lately, there’s been this (that’s me in the WWDC keynote main room at the Moscone center) and then that (yours truly talking at the first ever European iPhone conference). All of this has been the result of going to San Francisco last June. That particular trip changed everything; I never thought that a simple plane ticket could generate this much.

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