Category iPad

Swiss App Awards – Don’t Forget!

The deadline of the Swiss App Awards is approaching! Don’t forget to submit your application using the form before January 15th! The event will be held in Zürich, on January 27th, 2012. You can submit your application (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, web, any kind and in any language!) or just register as an attendee on [...]

Trainings 2012: Advanced iOS, Mobile Web Apps and Node.js

We are thrilled to announce new training sessions in Switzerland and South Africa this year: Advanced iOS: this training is for experienced iOS developers, looking to increase their knowledge with insider tips and tricks about the following subjects: Building iOS 5.x universal applications, compatible with version 4.x of iOS. Advanced user interface design for the [...]

Swiss App Awards 2012 – Submit your app now!

I’m honored to announce that I will be part of the jury of the next Swiss App Awards 2012, to be held in Zürich, on January 27th, 2012! The event is a gathering of the many designers, developers and companies that contribute to excellence, innovation and achivement in the Swiss app development landscape. The Awards [...]

Student application on the App Store: TroisXRien

Remember Sudokulus? It’s the application created by one of my students in a previous training. Well, today I have the pride and the joy to announce the second application created by one of our students, and published on the App Store! The application is called TroisXRien, and it is an application that kids can use [...]

Notitas 2.0 – A Major Milestone!

Notitas 2.0 has been approved during the weekend, and is available in the App Store! This is a major revision of our review-winning application, including a much awaited adaptation to the iPad! That’s right, you can now create, read and edit your notes directly on the iPad. This new application is as simple to use [...]

RooiFonts 1.1 – in the App Store!

The update frenzy continues! This is a long due update, one that we have been pushing back for a while; finally, RooiFonts 1.1 is ready to be downloaded from the App Store! RooiFonts our popular font viewer that allows users to browse, compare, share and learn about the fonts installed in iOS. This new version [...]

A Proposed Architecture for Network-Bound iOS Apps

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?” The problem is the following: let’s consider a relatively complex application, which has to connect to, and retrieve and send data from different remote [...]

Advanced iOS 4.2 Training Course – Zürich, February 7th and 8th 2011 – Enroll now!

akosma software is happy to announce the Advanced iOS 4.2 Training Course jointly organized with Trifork GmbH. This course requires that the attendees are familiar with Objective-C and have developed at least a few simple iPhone applications. The attendees should bring their own MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro with the latest iOS SDK installed. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]