Apple pushed out beta 2 of iOS 6.0 to developers today as well as Xcode 4.5 developer preview 2 and Apple TV beta 2. So far the highlight of installing the update seems to be the animated Settings icon. The gears rotate while the file is downloading — a nice touch many are taking notice…
Telerik’s Test Studio app can run automated tests on your apps without jailbreak
Telerik is unveiling a new app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad called Test Studio that lets developers run automated tests on their mobile or web apps right on the device with ease. The ability to run these types of automated tests is crucial for developers to maintain speed and stability within their apps. It…
Select developers now able to reply to Google Play comments
Google is now letting select group of developers respond to user comments posted on Google Play. As far as we’ve understood, this capability will initially be available to companies and individuals with the “Top Developer” badge with the plan to expand the scheme and let every single developer publishing an app in Google Play do…
A thorough first look at iOS 6 beta
Apple announced tons of new features and enhancements as part of iOS 6 two days ago at WWDC 2012, but it won’t be available to consumers until this fall — probably in September or October. Things like the totally revamped Maps app, improvements to Siri, Facebook integration, iCloud tabs, shared photo streams and more greatly…
Microsoft’s Generation App helps you build a Windows Phone app in 30 days
Microsoft is pulling all the stops to get developers on board with creating apps for the Windows Phone Marketplace. Its latest strategy is Generation App, a bundle of different tools and services with a single promise for the developer: it will guarantee that you complete the app development process from start to finish in 30…
iOS 6 already jailbroken
Apple’s iOS 6 was released to the developer group less than 24 hours ago, and it’s apparently already been jailbroken, according to a TechCrunch report. MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team announced via Twitter that he had successfully jailbroken a 4th generation iPod Touch running iOS 6, but noted that several parts including the third-party Cydia…
Millennial Media launches new version of Windows Phone SDK
Like it or not Windows Phone is here to stay. No matter how much money it costs, Microsoft just can’t leave this game. Simply put – it’s too profitable to be abandoned. Millennial Media thinks there’s money to be made in the emerging platform, hence it keeps updating its Windows Phone SDK to allow developers…
iOS still outpaces Android in app development
Yesterday I wrote up a post calling out Eric Schmidt for inaccurately predicting that six months from December 6, 2011, Android development would surpass iOS development. I used a few examples off the top of my head over the past six months of apps that did end up expanding to Android after gaining success on…
Hey Schmidt, it’s been six months and developers still prefer iOS over Android
Today’s the big day! It’s June 6, 2012. Exactly six months ago from today, Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt made a wild prediction saying that six months in the future, developers would prefer creating Android apps over iOS development. Well, here we are. “Ultimately, application vendors are driven by volume, and volume is…
Samsung releases the source code for the Galaxy S III
Great news for you hackers out there, as Samsung has released the source code for its Galaxy S III. The source code was released due to the launch of the Galaxy S III in 28 countries. You better bet your last dollar that the folks over at CyanogenMod will be baking up CM9 for you…