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BSON – What, why, how ?
BSON is often referred as Binary JSON. BSON is the serialization of JSON-like objects that are binary encoded. Just like JSON, BSON also supports nested objects, arrays, strings, integers etc. BSON supports some more data types, especially raw binary data. So we can consider BSON as a super-set of JSON. BSON is designed to be fast to transport and fast to decode. The main features of BSON are: Traversable Light weight and Efficient Lets stop lecturing about BSON and move on to discussion regarding ...
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Money For Nothing: 4 Free Ways to Promote Your Mobile App
When you’re promoting your iPhone or iPad app, it may seem like all of your marketing choices are expensive. But you don’t have to spend big bucks to get big attention. Discover 4 easy and effective app marketing tactics that you can do for free.
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The Importance of Standard UI Elements
For my first post as a new contributing member to the iOS-Blog, I’d like to take the time to talk about the importance of standard UI elements when developing an iOS application. More often than not, I think many new iOS developers think big. What do I mean by this? I mean that when thinking about their first application and its design, they tend to think too large in scope before they have honed any of their skills. I’m not ...
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Games – An Integral Part Of iPhone Application Development
Not so long ago, games were primarily an area of interest for toddlers and teenagers and were developed keeping them in mind as the target audience. This trend changed due to an escalating number of mobile devices and gaming consoles introduced in the market in last few decades. Games are considered as a separate category under mobile applications and are being developed for all age groups – from a 5-year old to a 50-year old, on various mobile devices. Apple ...
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A review of Paintcode
If you are an iOS developer who is trying to find a better way to write Objective-C drawing code for CoreGraphics or Quartz, there maybe a better way for you. If you are starting to learn CoreGraphics and Quartz, part of iOS APIs, there may be a tool for you. If you are looking for a way to design iOS applications that will automatically scale from 1X to 2X resolutions in order to support Retina Displays, there may be a ...
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Implementing ads in your iOS Application
In iOS 4.0 Apple introduced the iAd framework, making it possible for iOS developers to include ads in their apps, and thereby earning revenue as the app users view or interact with the ads. But iAd isn’t available in all countries. At this time the iAd network is only available in: The U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan. If your primary customer base isn’t in one of the mentioned countries, don’t worry. There’s a lot of alternative ad-frameworks ...
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Becoming an iOS Developer, Part 1: Prerequisites
Firstly, thanks for visiting the first part of my blog series becoming an iOS developer. Originally I was going to be creating a 5 post series, however after consideration into what I wanted to cover I decided it might be more on the 10 post side. So, you’ve decided to take the plunge into iOS development eh? Great! – This short post will go through the things that you need to have before you consider developing your apps. I will ...
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I’m a designer by profession, here’s my story in learning iOS development
So you’ve decided that iOS development is for you, or maybe you haven’t and you need some convincing. You have heard or read success stories on small ideas generating tons of money in the Apple Store, and your keen to get on board, but your afraid of the overwhelmingly large iOS documentation, or worse, having your app rejected by Apple! Don’t fear, I was, and still am of that opinion.
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