This is a guest post + code, wrote together with Joe D’Andrea from LiquidJoe LLC! Many developers new to the iOS platform have trouble understanding the delegate architecture, in the sense that many other OO toolkits use properties to configure the characteristics of UI elements, instead of having a separate object doing the job. When [...]

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 [...]

Just like last October I’ll be back in South Africa next February, for a whole series of mobile application trainings organized jointly by immedia and akosma software! Have you ever wanted to learn how to create a mobile app? Looked at Evernote and thought, “Hey, I can do that!” We have embarked on an exciting [...]

Just like last year, I am thrilled to announce that I will be the host of the Cross Platform Mobile track in QCon London 2012! QCon is a series of conferences taking place in San Francisco and London every year. It is a joint venture between Trifork and InfoQ. We are currently working towards the [...]

The next two weeks I will be giving an extensive set of mobile application trainings in South Africa, organized jointly by immedia and akosma software! Have you always wanted to learn how to create a mobile app? Looked at Evernote and thought, “Hey, I can do that!” We have embarked on an exciting training initiative [...]

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 [...]

Version 2.0 of our flagship application bluewoki has been approved (in less than half a day!) and is already available at the App Store! If you haven’t heard of it yet, bluewoki is a peer to peer walkie-talkie for iPhone and iPod touch (it also works on the iPad, of course, but with the iPhone [...]

Mobile apps are hardly something new these days. Mobile app stores are ubiquitous, and download and “number of apps” stats do not matter anymore. “Mobile First” is now, more than just a guideline, simply the way business work. In Switzerland, the big craze of mobile apps began with the introduction of the iPhone in June [...]

Given our strong focus on iOS, and also to be sure to be economically competitive, we are continuously watching the market to know which OS version is used by the many potential users of the apps we make. Today, we announce that we officially drop support for iPhone OS 3.x in all of our future [...]

The “Introduction to iOS Software Development” session, part of the mobile track at QCon London 2011 last March, including the full one-hour long video & slides, is available at the InfoQ site! By the way, check out the “Mobile App Privacy — You’re Doing It Wrong (and So Am I)” session by Graham Lee, also [...]