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With the recent release of the new iPad, app resources (images, videos, etc.) will be significantly larger. Apple has raised the 3G app download to 50mb to compensate for the larger images, but it may still be a tight squeeze. This is especially true for universal apps that have to support low and high resolutions of iPhones, iPods, and now the iPads. Often during the construction of an app we will go through many revisions to the UI, moving new assets in and out of the app. In this confusion, there’s a chance that the developer might forget to remove the image as a resource from the project when it is no longer used.
read more- http://tech.xtremelabs.com/how-to-shrink-your-app/
Understanding your development tools allow you to spend less time writing boilerplate code and solving the same problems over and over again. Here are seven tools every Android developer should familiarize themselves with to
make their workflow more efficient and solve new problems.
read more- http://tech.xtremelabs.com/7-tools-in-an-advanced-android-development-workflow/
To build working iOS apps quickly and painlessly I have often leveraged open source libraries. It’s important to avoid reinventing the wheel every time your app needs to hit the network, use common UI, socially share content, etc.
People have listed libraries before (here, here, and here), I wanted to highlight some that lean more towards dev tools than front facing user features
read more- http://tech.xtremelabs.com/ios-libraries-for-productive-programming/
I recently worked on an Android app that parsed large amounts of JSON-formatted data. We would routinely allocate 20 or 30 kilobytes of heap space for Strings of JSON-formatted text retrieved from a server. We’d pass the strings to the Android framework’s JSONObject class in order to construct our data models. After downloading many objects in a short amount of time we discovered that we were frequently running out of memory and decided that we needed a different strategy to parse the content we downloaded from our server: all those Strings and JSONObjects on the heap were killing us.
read more- http://tech.xtremelabs.com/parsing-json-data-efficiently-on-android-jsonreader/
In my recent project, we were asked to build a hybrid app which incorporates native Android UI with web components. In our past experience, iOS has a very extensive library of handling all web views, which led us to believe that Android would also provide something similar. However, after days of experimenting on Android WebViews, we found it acts quite differently from the UIWebView class in iOS.
Read More - http://tech.xtremelabs.com/introduction-to-android-webview/
IIn my recent project, we were asked to build a hybrid app which incorporates native Android UI with web components. In our past experience, iOS has a very extensive library of handling all web views, which led us to believe that Android would also provide something similar. However, after days of experimenting on Android WebViews, we found it acts quite differently from the UIWebView class in iOS.
Read More - http://tech.xtremelabs.com/introduction-to-android-webview/
In my recent project, we were asked to build a hybrid app which incorporates native Android UI with web components. In our past experience, iOS has a very extensive library of handling all web views, which led us to believe that Android would also provide something similar. However, after days of experimenting on Android WebViews, we found it acts quite differently from the UIWebView class in iOS.
Read More - http://tech.xtremelabs.com/introduction-to-android-webview/
Facebook iOS SDK 3.0 makes it easier for developers to integrate Facebook into their mobile applications. This new release comes with a host of major updates, from FBSession which lets an app manage the user’s session with ease to a bunch of smaller features like making it easier to create basic API calls to the Facebook OpenGraph. This version of the SDK also introduces blocks for a cleaner handling of various calls to Facebook.
Read More - http://tech.xtremelabs.com/facebook-sdk-3-0/
This guide will show you how to setup your Mac environment for optimal Ruby on Rails development.
Read More - http://tech.xtremelabs.com/how-to-setup-your-mac-for-rails-development/
This guide will show you how to setup your Mac environment for optimal Ruby on Rails development.
Read More - http://tech.xtremelabs.com/how-to-setup-your-mac-for-rails-development/
