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iOS 7 Development Tutorials Aplenty

Now that iOS 7 has hit the streets, the non-disclosure agreement that all registered iOS developers is no longer under effect. This means that all of us who’ve been playing with the various beta versions of iOS 7 and Xcode 5 can finally talk about them, as well as their APIs, and their experiences developing […]

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iOS 7 Development: Tutorials to Get You Started

The Story So Far So far in this series on iOS 7 development for people new to iOS development, we’ve looked at: The changes being made to iOS and the opportunities that arise from them Getting and setting up Xcode 5 Preview and the iOS 7 Beta SDK Putting iOS 7 beta on your iPhone […]

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Like a Book Club, But For Toronto Developers Who Want to Learn How to Make iOS Games

NSCoderTO, a Toronto-based Mac/iOS coder group, is dedicating a series of book club meetups to Learning Cocos2D, an iOS game programming book written by Rod Strougo and Ray Wenderlich (the guy behind the ever-so-useful RayWenderlich.com site). Between now and late April, they’re going to read and do the exercises in this book, meeting up 5 […]

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The First Mobile Developer News Roundup of 2013: A Whole Lotta iOS News

Ed Bott is that rarest and most curious of creatures — a Windows fan — so it shouldn’t be surprising that when Apple reported that they hit the 40 billion downloads from the App Store, with nearly half of that in 2012, his take-away from the news was that the numbers were good for Apple […]

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Mobile Developer News Roundup: Windows Phone 8 Launch, Windows 8 Dev Tutorials on Channel 9, “iOS 5 by Tutorials” Updated

The Windows 8 Launch Event The Windows Phone 8 launch takes place later today. At 1 p.m. Eastern (10 a.m. Pacific), Microsoft will unveil the latest version of Windows Phone, whose SDK has been unavailable to most developers in a bid to “build up excitement”. You’ll be able to watch the stream of the event […]

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Mobile Developer News Roundup: The Amazing iOS 6 Maps, iPhone 5 Lines, Why You Should be an iOS Developer and the iOS 6 Feast

The Amazing iOS 6 Maps The Amazing iOS 6 Maps is a Tumblr devoted to showcasing the shortcomings of the new Maps application in iOS 6. I’ve also enjoyed this twist on the “Condescending Wonka” meme: iPhone 5 Lines and Samsung’s Response Here’s a photo of an iPhone 5 line in Australia posted by @iFixit […]

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Mobile Developer News Roundup: Nokia’s Head of Design, Nokia Lumia 820 and 920, The “Ugly Little Game” That’s an App Store Hit, Building an iOS Drawing App with UIKit

Nokia’s Head of Design Over at Wired, there’s an article on Ahtisaari (full name Marko Ahtisaari, but like Pele, Charo or Stifler, he’s better known by a singular name), head of Nokia’s design studio. Nokia currently cranks out the best-looking of the Windows Phones, and the new 920 is continuing that trend. Ahtisaari is big […]