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Year 2010

Retrospective 2010

2010 is coming to an end, and it was an excellent year for akosma software! We would like to thank all of our clients, service providers, partners and friends for the trust and the business! We wish you a great 2011 and we remain at your service as your partner of choice for your software [...]

Parmigiani Fleurier iPhone Application

akosma software is proud to announce the new and exclusive Parmigiani Fleurier iPhone application, developed in collaboration with RGB Productions. This iPhone app is compatible with iPhone OS 3.2 and iOS 4.2 and offers the following features: Explore the exclusive catalog of Parmigiani Fleurier watches, including technical data and pictures. Read the latest news of [...]

swissinfo.ch iPad application

We are thrilled and extremely proud to announce a new iPad application: this time is swissinfo.ch, an innovative news reader application for swissinfo, the heir of the now extinct Swiss Radio International which ceased broadcasting back in 1999. swissinfo.ch offers an international and Swiss perspective on major news around the world, in 9 languages, updated [...]

Talking at the EPFL Today

Today at 1400 CET Adrian will be talking at the world-famous Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), giving an introduction to iOS development to students. The video of the presentation will be available as live streaming on http://video.epfl.ch, so be sure to check it out!

Le Temps Sortir Dîner Universal Application

We are proud to announce a new iOS application: this time is Sortir Dîner, an elegant and useful iOS universal application for the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, working on the iPhone, the iPad and the iPod touch, developed jointly by akosma software and Trifork Switzerland GmbH, and featuring a gorgeous, exclusive design by the Geneva-based [...]

Article dans com.in Magazine

Le 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 [...]

How knowing C and C++ can help you write better iPhone apps, part 1

While 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. The obvious question being “why should I learn C if actually I [...]

QCon London 2011: Call for Papers in the Mobile Track

I am honored to announce that I will be taking part in QCon London 2011, but this time not as a speaker, but as host of the mobile track! QCon is a series of conferences taking place in San Francisco and London every year. It is a joint venture between Trifork and InfoQ, and as [...]

Soft-Shake 2010

Voici l’annonce officielle de la conference Soft-Shake 2010: Agilité, iPhone et Java voilà les trois thèmes de la conférence Soft-Shake qui se tiendra pour la toute première fois le 18 octobre 2010 à Genève. La conférence est organisée en commun par les associations de l’Agile Tour de Genève, le Groupe des Développeurs iPhone de Suisse [...]

Integrating iOS Applications with Backend REST Services

A 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. This project showcases different transport formats and libraries to consume web services from an iPhone application. It features a server application written in PHP, [...]