How to Price Your App: Free or Paid
In this article, I'll talk about the different business models of mobile applications and which one is the right choice for you.IntroductionYou've worked for weeks or even months on your first mobile...
View ArticleBuild A Poker Game in Corona: Interface Setup
In this two-part tutorial, I will show you how to build a poker game using the Corona SDK. You will learn about touch controls, tweening elements, timers, and how to create a custom sort...
View ArticleBuild a Poker Game in Corona: Game Logic
In the first part of this tutorial, we set up the project and created the game's interface. We also created and implemented a function to create a deck of cards. In this second tutorial, we will create...
View ArticleHTML5: Battery Status API
tag:code.tutsplus.com,2005:PostPresenter/mobile-22795The number of people browsing the web using mobile devices grows every day. It's therefore important to optimize websites and web applications to...
View ArticleSecuring and Encrypting Data on iOS
Whether you're creating a mobile application or a web service, keeping sensitive data secure is important and security has become an essential aspect of every software product. In this tutorial, I will...
View ArticleiOS: Tools of the Trade
IntroductionXcode, the de facto integrated development environment (IDE) for iOS and OS X development, is a fantastic piece of software. It offers everything a Cocoa developer needs to go from a...
View ArticleUsing the Accelerometer on Android
In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to use the accelerometer, one of the many hardware sensors of modern smartphones, in an Android application. I'll explain what an accelerometer is and why...
View ArticleBuild Missile Command with Sprite Kit: Project Setup
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Apple's Sprite Kit framework to recreate a Missile Command game for the iPad. Along the way, you'll learn more about several core concepts such as, sprites,...
View ArticleBuild Missile Command with Sprite Kit: User Interaction
In the previous tutorial, we laid the foundation of our Missile Command game by creating the project, setting up the single-player scene, and adding user interaction. In this tutorial, you'll expand...
View ArticleHTML5: Vibration API
HTML5 has been a breath of fresh air for the web, which hasn't only affected the web as we know it. HTML5 provides a number of APIs that enable developers to create interactive websites and improve the...
View ArticleCreate a Music Player on Android: Project Setup
The Android platform provides resources for handling media playback, which your apps can use to create an interface between the user and their music files. In this tutorial series, we will create a...
View ArticleExploring the Multipeer Connectivity framework: Project Setup
As with every major release, iOS 7 includes many new APIs that developers can take advantage of in their applications. In this tutorial, we'll take a look at a brand new framework introduced in iOS 7,...
View ArticleAn Introduction to App Marketing
Marketing is just as important as the development of your product. Marketing your application helps build an audience, which in turn gives you the opportunity to generate revenue.When speaking about...
View ArticleWriting Elegant and Readable Code
In this tutorial, we will give you nine practical techniques for writing elegant and readable code. We won't be talking about specific architectures, languages, or platforms. The focus lies on writing...
View ArticleExploring the Multipeer Connectivity framework: Game Logic
In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple, multi-player game using the Multipeer Connectivity framework that was introduced in iOS 7. In the first installment of this series, we laid the...
View ArticleCreate a Music Player on Android: Song Playback
In this series, we are creating a music player on Android using the MediaPlayer and MediaController classes. In the first part, we created the app and prepared the user interface for playback. We...
View ArticleIntroducing Alcatraz 1.0
What Is Alcatraz?Alcatraz is a package manager for Xcode 5 created and maintained by Marin Usalj and Delisa Mason. You may be asking yourself "Why would I need a package manager for Xcode?" You may not...
View ArticleCreate a Music Player on Android: User Controls
We are building a simple music player app for Android in this series. So far, we have presented a list of the songs on the device and allowed the user to make selections from it, starting playback...
View ArticleAn Introduction to UIKit Dynamics
The new look and feel of the iOS 7 user interface relies heavily on subtle animations to help give users a stronger sense of direct manipulation. In this tutorial, I'll give you an overview of the...
View ArticleIn the Spotlight: Brian LeRoux
The explosive growth of the mobile space has accelerated the search for a robust and viable cross-platform solution. In 2008, shortly after the introduction of the iPhone SDK and after fiddling with...
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