In the past week, my latest app , RunNow Pro was approved and released in the Apple App Store. The app project began about 6 weeks ago. My wife and I were talking about running and my wife decided she was going to try to run a half marathon next fall. While it is pretty far away, we decided it was best to get started with a run / walk program so she’d be ready to hit the road come spring. I looked up some plans online and thought there would be an app out there to help with this. […]
There is nothing like drawing up your app ideas so you can visualize things better. Like most of you, I’ve used the trusty paper and pen method the most. I came across Balsamiq in mid 2009 and have used it a nice amount. It does some things really well and the end product is great [...]
I recently finished up my 3rd App Store game, SudokuKids for iPad. While I can’t wait to see it available in the App Store, I decided this was a good candidate for delayed release. I know many people advocate the delayed release. Usually, the main point is to try to build up a buzz around [...]
Project organization is something we all need to deal with on a daily basis. The way we handle it leads directly to how efficient we can be, how support is handled, and how complete our products are. No one wants the be the guy who is letting things fall through the cracks. Project management for [...]
I’m sure most iOS developers are familiar with ad-hoc testing. For the uninitiated, it is a way of testing where you can put a development version of your app on someone else’s iDevice without having to have it sync to yourself. In the early days of iOS development, this was a somewhat painful process, but [...]
Everything that man has created has been created with an audience in mind. We create things for ourselves, for others and sometimes, we create for both ourselves and others. As application developers, this is just as true. As we design apps, we need to determine who our core audience is. This can be tricky enough [...]
