Oh Apple, I’ve made such a fool of myself. Why? Why did I fall for the lure of the slim lines? the promise of the wearables? I was sure that Android was going to make me happy, to fill the gaps that had grown between us. I cannot believe I fell for it. After a … Read more
I’m sure we would all love to work in an environment where as soon as a cool new technology is available we can switch everything over! The reality is we don’t (or at least the people I get to talk to don’t!) So for many the mobile dilemma is simple… how do I get to … Read more
If you want to deploy an iOS application provisioned under an enterprise license on an IIS box the steps are simple enough: – Create a folder where the .ipa file will be stored such as \inetpub\wwwroot\myApp – Create a manifest (.plist) file, here is an example of what that should look like [code language=”xml”] <?xml … Read more
I remember writing my first mobile app for the Psion Series II, it started my passion for mobile devices. So it was no surprise to the family when I started writing apps for the iPhone all the way back in 2009. There were countless hours spent reading documentation, trying to get things to compile, and … Read more
How cool is it to think that you can write one application (albeit in HTML5/JS) and deploy it to all three major Mobile OS’s, using DevExtreme, I will be creating an application that targets iOS, WM8 and Android. One thing I wanted to do was to access the hardware layer of the device with the … Read more
Before everyone starts messaging me and telling me 110% is not possible, just listen ! For weeks I’ve been watching the countdown over at DevExpress promising to announce something cool. Well tonight 6pm AEST all was revealed – DXTREME In a nutshell, 3 tools in 1 – developing rich cross platform applications, and it looks … Read more
Welcome to Apple World: Submit – Fail, Submit – Fail, Submit – Fail It certainly was not the first iOS App I had tried to submit, yet here I am, seeing the same ambiguous error: iPhone/iPod Touch: icon.png: icon dimensions (0 x 0) don’t meet the size requirements. The icon file must be 57×57 pixels, … Read more
I received an SOS from a mate asking to see why his $1,000,000 app making idea was crashing at the first hurdle. Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘-[MyAnnotation objectForKey:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x73be080’ If there is one thing the last three years of xCode development has taught me, it’s that … Read more