The Clock PWAReaders of this humble blog on desktop environments or on tablets are aware of the clock that decorates the left hand side of the screen; well, now everyone can have that nice artsy clock on their mobile devices… and no, it’s not an app.
Objective-C and Cocoa in 2025Back in 2015 I gave a talk titled “Cocoa is the new Carbon: the Future of Apple’s Beloved Framework”, whose presentation has a slide that said “Cocoa should remain for backwards compatibility during 10 years at least, until 2025”.
Killer AppsThe D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.
Dropping support for iOS 5 and olderJust like last year, this year too we announce that all of our future projects will only be compatible with iOS 6 from now on.
Attending WWDC 2012Next week I’ll be attending the 2012 edition of WWDC in San Francisco! A whole week full of training sessions, labs, and meetings with cool friends from all over the world. And apparently with many surprises, as several sessions in the schedule (requires login) are marked as “to be announced”.
Trainings 2012: Advanced iOS, Mobile Web Apps and Node.jsWe are thrilled to announce new training sessions in Switzerland and South Africa this year:
Announcing EERV cal, an iPhone, Android and Web Application!We are ecstatic to announce the general availability of the EERV cal mobile application, created with Sencha Touch and PhoneGap, and available as an HTML5 web application, and also on the App Store and the Android Market!
A Proposed Architecture for Network-Bound iOS AppsOne of my most popular answers in StackOverflow is the one I gave to the following question: “What is the best architecture for an iOS application that makes many network requests?”
bluewoki 2.0 Hits the App Store!Version 2.0 of our flagship application bluewoki has been approved (in less than half a day!) and is already available at the App Store! If you haven’t heard of it yet, bluewoki is a peer to peer walkie-talkie for iPhone and iPod touch (it also works on the iPad, of course, but with the iPhone look and feel of course).
A Shift In The Market Towards Mobile Web AppsMobile apps are hardly something new these days. Mobile app stores are ubiquitous, and download and “number of apps” stats do not matter anymore. “Mobile First” is now, more than just a guideline, simply the way business work.
Dropping support for iPhone OS 3.xGiven our strong focus on iOS, and also to be sure to be economically competitive, we are continuously watching the market to know which OS version is used by the many potential users of the apps we make.
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:
Article dans com.in MagazineLe 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.”
How knowing C and C++ can help you write better iPhone apps, part 1While learning how to write iOS applications, you will often encounter the phrase “learn C first”. Writers of Cocoa applications apparently benefit from knowing about C (sometimes even C++), but it is not very clear to many new developers how this actually works.
Integrating iOS Applications with Backend REST ServicesA couple of hours ago I finished my presentation at JAOO, a discussion of what I’ve learnt about integrating REST services in iOS apps while creating the iPhoneWebServicesClient project at Github.
Migrating iPhone 3.x apps to iPad and iOS 4.0Right now, creating Universal Applications for the iPod touch, the iPhone and the iPad is not really a straightforward task. The current panorama of iOS-compatible software and hardware platforms is getting more and more complex, and this blog post is a small guide (by no means exhaustive) of tips and tricks that have helped me get my apps running in as many platforms as possible, with as few headaches as possible.