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Amazon says were giving your app away for free, Now shut up!

When Amazon's android app store launched not too long ago I think every developer smiled a bit. This was a new store with some compelling features, features that allowed users to try your app in a web browser before buying, and it has the potential…

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Enhancing the Mobile User Experience With Speed

There are many factors to take into account when thinking about how to enhance the user experience for a mobile application or a mobile based web site. It’s important to keep in mind that a mobile device will provide an entirely different user experience compared…

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What are the dangers of using code that is posted online as opposed to developing the code yourself? Is there any reason to not use it?

In my experience the biggest danger in using code that is posted online is that you may end up investing a significant amount of time trying to understand it before realizing that it either doesn't work as described or won't work for your intended purpose.…

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“NSPropertyListWriteStreamError” – When No is Not Enough

Sometimes, 'NO' is just not enough.  There are many great features about XCode, the LLVM compiler, Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch libraries but sometimes they just don't give enough information.  One such case is NSDictionary's "-(BOOL)writeToURL:atomically:" method. I was working on a project, and I…

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Apple Owns Your Smartphone’s Touchscreen

Apple Owns Your Smartphone's Touchscreen... Well, sort of. Back in 2007 before the iPhone was released Apple filed a patent application for the capacitive touch screen used on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and, now, the screens of many competitor's phones, such as Android and BlackBerry.…

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