52 posts tagged iOS
The results of the extensive survey of 5,600 U.S. high school students show that 34% of surveyed students now own an iPhone, an all-time high in the survey and double the percentage seen just a year ago. Furthermore, 40% of surveyed students indicated that they intend to purchase an iPhone within the next six months.
I was going through my RSS feeds and noticed this article from MacManiaDev discussing a full-featured drop in photo editor available for free from the folks at Aviary.com. This looks like a great resource for any dev wanting to add some additional functionality over Apple’s photo picker control in their apps.
Click here for more information.
I recently discovered this awesome Photoshop template for creating iOs app icons. The template uses Smart Objects automatically create previews of all icon sizes when you edit the 512 x 512 object. The download also includes some great textures along with a couple of actions that export multiple sizes of the icon and name them according to Apple’s HID guidelines.
Adobe® Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool that allows front-end web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to customize websites for mobile devices.
This is a pretty slick tool. Pair multiple mobile devices to a single PC, then use the PC to navigate to different web pages. The mobile devices will then automatically load the same page. You can even edit HTML/CSS and instantly see the changes on the devices. I plan on using this to help teach media queries and responsive design in my mobile web development class this fall.
Here’s a video of the tool in action.
Square, Inc. just announced the Square Register. The app turns your iPad into a sleek point of sale machine. Merchants pay a fee of only 2.75% per transaction.
