Category Archives: Apps

Continuously Learning Xcode

For an indie developer it’s important to hear how other developers are working. Ben Scheirman of NSScreencast is posting an interesting series on his development of an app. Just watching how others work is really useful to spot shortcuts and efficiencies in … Continue reading

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MacID for iOS – ASO Review

MacID for iOS is the number 1 paid app (Monday 18th May 2015) The basics £0.79 – Universal app Offers Apple Watch App All 5 screenshots have text heading with features and benefits. No App Preview video. 27 Ratings, the … Continue reading

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NSConference Videos

NSConference has established itself as one of the best iOS Development conferences. That all came to a close this year. I was lucky enough to attend and am looking forward to watching the newly released NSConf7 videos. I was amazed to see that Scotty has uploaded … Continue reading

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App Business Interviews

There’s a huge resource of podcast interviews that I’ve recently discovered. Paul Kemp, TheAppGuy has recorded nearly 300 interviews with app business owners and developers. He’s also launching a new series called App Store Launch Stories. If you’ve not heard of Paul before … Continue reading

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iOS Development Tools April 2015

Each project with a new team brings new tools and workflows. Tools I’ve been using this month. iOS Development Fabric include Crashlytics Beta for deploying test builds. Planning to use Twitter Digits for user onboarding. Parse – for user management and uploading … Continue reading

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App Store Descriptions

Appbot have a great post on Writing a Great App Store Description. One of the points is about telling a story, something that many apps fail to do. Tell a story, don’t rattle off features Selling a story of the … Continue reading

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iTunes Connect TestFlight

TestFlight is now legacy TestFlight and the new Apple version, as accessed via iTunesConnect, is TestFlight Beta Testing. TestFlight Beta Testing has both increased the number of users to 1000 and reduced it to 25. The number of internal testers … Continue reading

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Mobile Commerce Stats

Really interesting presentation on the state of mobile commerce. [slideshare id=23878672&doc=50must-know2-130703165724-phpapp01]

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30K App Downloads

  It was pleasant surprise today to see that apps I have written as TinyShinyApps have been downloaded 30,000 times. PictoBento was done as a showcase app and shows beautiful images from Instagram and Dribbble. It was written in iOS4 and … Continue reading

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Using Trello to Keep Track of Ideas

I’m a big fan of Trello for task management. This article comes up with another use: http://feint.me/articles/keeping-track-of-ideas

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