Mobile Market Breakdown
Aug 9, 2012
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10 Things to Think About When Designing iPad Apps
Mar 27, 2012
The article “will explore 10 of the key things to think about when designing your app (and planning the design process)”. Here are the bullet points, but the good bits are the details, examples, and screenshots in the article.
- Take A Goal-Oriented Approach To Simplify Functionality
- Leverage What You Know …
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7 Guidelines for Designing Mobile Interfaces
Mar 23, 2012
Here’s a nice article describing some of the key areas of mobile UI with examples of apps that follow good design principles. They go into detail about their 7 guidelines for designing mobile interfaces:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/80489608/7-Guidelines-to-Great-Mobile-Design
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A Comparison Between iOS vs Android Fragmentation
Mar 7, 2012
Here’s a great comparison showing the difference in OS fragmentation between iOS and Android - http://pxldot.com/post/18754186750/ios-ebb-and-flow.
From the article: “iOS devices have, on average, reached 10% version share 300 times faster than Android versions, 30% share 19 times faster, and 50% share 7 times faster …
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iOS Ad Networks
Feb 26, 2012
The easiest way to add ads to your iOS app and make the most money is to use a single ad aggregation network. A few popular ones include:
- MobClix
- Smatto
- LeadBolt
- Millenium Media
Using one of the ad aggregation networks above will save you the trouble of having to add …
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Quick Code Comparison Between Objective C, C++, Java, and Javascript
Feb 22, 2012
A few people were asking me about how Objective C and its syntax stand out. Common questions came up about Objective C’s properties and synthesize, bracket and dot notation, and function and argument naming, and the class naming with 2 or 3 letter prefixes.
Here’s a quick comparison …
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iOS HTTP Library
Feb 9, 2012
It’s pretty easy to create an iOS HTTP library, but why bother when there’s a great one already out there?
Check out the ASIHTTPRequest library.
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iOS JSON Libraries
Feb 9, 2012
Popular Libraries
- https://github.com/johnezang/JSONKit - optimized for speed
- https://github.com/stig/json-framework/ - long history and widely used
- https://github.com/TouchCode/TouchJSON - parses NSData instead of NSString
Articles
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iOS SQLite Wrapper Libraries
Feb 9, 2012
Best Libraries
- FMDB - “A Cocoa / Objective-C wrapper around SQLite” (1st most popular on github). More documentation.
- TouchSQL - “Modern sqlite wrapper” (2nd most popular on github)
Ok Libraries
- GTMSQLite - part of Google Toolbox for Mac
- CoreSQLite 3 - “fast, clean, powerful” (3rd most popular on github). Too close to raw sqlite.
Other …
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Market Share for iOS Versions
Jan 30, 2012
Version info on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history
Market share articles:
- http://www.cocoanetics.com/2011/08/ios-versions-in-the-wild/
- http://www.marco.org/2011/08/13/instapaper-ios-device-and-version-stats-update
- http://www.quora.com/What-proportion-of-all-iPhone-owners-use-iOS4-%2a-today
- http://insights.chitika.com/2011/61-of-ipads-already-running-ios-4-january-ios-and-android-os-breakdown/
- http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110302005489/en/iPad-2-iOS-4.3-Coming-20-iPads …
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