There’s a lot said about the troubles of being an indie iOS developer, with a recurrence doing the rounds at the moment. It’s fair to say that many consider it an ill-advised move, at least the ones who have not tried it or have tried and failed to make enough money. I remain convinced that to some degree the indies out there who have found profitable niches are not too eager to share this information, […]
iOS developers are well aware of the shift in price models away from charging up front, to free with In-App Purchase. I have been pretty resistant to this change, especially in the light of the forthcoming ability to host preview videos on the App Store. The rationale is that getting people to buy your app without evaluating it is a massive hurdle, and a video preview could help with that. Now I find myself having […]
A few weeks back I posted an entry called “The journey from Groovy to Objective-C”. Well at WWDC 2014 Apple announced their new language called Swift which is eerily similar to Groovy in many ways.
I was listening to Iterate 67 recently and there was discussion about Readdle‘s apps and how they work together. I was thinking about how they achieve this above and beyond some canOpenURL: smarts, and I presume they are using a shared bundle ID or similar to allow the apps integrate with each other at a deeper level. Somewhat tangentially this got me thinking about a possibility of solving the “there’s no upgrade pricing in the […]
This time last year I was winding down my work on several Grails plugins and contracting for customers to help them with their Grails application development.