Ios on akos.ma

The Clock PWA

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Readers 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 2025

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Back 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 Apps

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0200

The 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.

iPad Styluses

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Here’s a list of iPad styluses I’ve owned in the past few years:

Dropping support for iOS 5 and older

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Just 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 2012

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0200

Next 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.js

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

We are thrilled to announce new training sessions in Switzerland and South Africa this year:

Announcing EERV cal, an iPhone, Android and Web Application!

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100

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 Apps

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

One 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!

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200

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).