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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Another day of announcements at akosma software: this time, a fruitful and fun collaboration with Zerofee to create a dynamic visual identity for the Dezeen Watchstore, and their Dezeen Watchstore iPhone & iPad Web Application (best viewed with Safari on iOS, iPhone & iPad!). Dezeen is an online magazine, one of the most popular and [...]

It’s that time of the year again: JAOO 2010 is getting closer, with sessions and workshops from Sunday October 3rd to Friday 8th. JAOO has been held since 1996, and it is a multi-language, non-vendor focused, eclectic, flexible conference where you can learn about those technologies you’ve never heard about, or those you never had [...]

Right now, creating Universal Applications for the iPod touch, the iPhone and the iPad is not really a straightforward task. The current panorama of iOS-compatible software and hardware platforms is getting more and more complex, and this blog post is a small guide (by no means exhaustive) of tips and tricks that have helped me [...]

This is the video shot by the amazing team of VPS prod while we were working on the application. There was always a camera rolling during our meetings and even during our work sessions! The final result is simply outstanding and we are very happy to release it in public. The videos included in the [...]