I had a fun little problem in my work-in-progress iOS app recently. The app recognises a pan gesture on the main view, but also has some buttons as subviews of the main view. Think a white rectangle that receives pan gestures, and a UIButton in the middle of that view. Everything worked fine in the simulator. Panning worked. Tapping the button worked. Not so on a real device.
What a great surprise app release this is. You may remember that Panic created a storm when they blogged about the internal HTML status board they created for their development team, displayed on the wall on an HD TV.
You’ve got to hand it to Facebook. With the announcement of Facebook Home they may well disrupt mobile advertising and handsets in a really significant way. A very shrewd move.
Dropbox has nothing but a somewhat trusted brand despite repeated password hacks, and a smart filesystem driver/integration, and as a result of this a sizeable user base. Those are all that differentiate it from the army of file sharing web sites that existed prior to it. They do not have a “sync” service, they have a last-write wins distributed filesystem. There is nowhere else to go with the service as it stands. Now Dropbox buys […]
I recently bought a set of Philips Hue LED bulbs to try out. I feel there is some potential for innovative apps for them, so I wanted to use them for a while to get some ideas firmed up and see how it feels to live in the future.