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Fixing your iOS build scripts

Post published:May 21, 2015
Post Author:Jimmie Jensen
Post Category:iOS
Post Comments:15 Comments

If you, like myself, tend to be a part of projects where we’re delivering several builds of an iOS app, this blogpost might concern you. Up until now, Apple has…

Looking at UX trends

Post published:December 10, 2014
Post Author:Håkan Reis
Post Category:Android / iOS / Uncategorized / User Experience / Web
Post Comments:0 Comments

Now when 2014 is closing we took the time and gather a few Jaywayers to look at UX trends found in ongoing projects. This is our very personal thoughts and…

Jay Librarian – Jayway’s Book Management System

Post published:August 29, 2014
Post Author:Davor Crnomat
Post Category:.Net / Android / Web
Post Comments:0 Comments

It all has started as a competence project. At Jayway we have a practice of combining competence development with developing of some useful applications that we would use in our…

Setting up a Pebble simulator in 64 bit Linux (Mint/Ubuntu)

Post published:July 8, 2014
Post Author:Darius Katz
Post Category:Tips & Tricks / Wearables
Post Comments:0 Comments

One reason I bought a Pebble watch was to develop apps for it, so when I put my online order I didn't want to wait two or three weeks for…

Hypermedia APIs with mobile clients

Post published:April 8, 2013
Post Author:Jan Kronquist
Post Category:Architecture
Post Comments:14 Comments

At our recent talk at Confess 2013 in Vienna there were several developers working with mobile devices in the audience. This is great as the purpose of hypermedia in the API is to make life simpler for client developers. However, after the talk several of them raised issues regarding the high latency and low bandwidth of mobile phones. In this post I will try to address both these concerns.

Combining HTML Hypermedia APIs and Adaptive Web Design

Post published:August 1, 2012
Post Author:Gustaf Nilsson Kotte
Post Category:Architecture / User Experience
Post Comments:11 Comments

tl;dr HTML is the lowest common denominator in a world where the number of devices are steadily growing. In such a world, our API should be hypermedia driven and we…

Android: The Mysterious NullPointerException

Post published:December 15, 2011
Post Author:Darius Katz
Post Category:Android / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:2 Comments

The Problem One day it was just there. A mischievous NullPointerException causing, eh, mischief. It was fairly easy to provoke with my application but for some reason my code was…

The state of iOS Open Source – and what to do about it!

Post published:May 16, 2011
Post Author:Fredrik Olsson
Post Category:Architecture / Cocoa / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:16 Comments

There is a vibrant community of open source projects for iOS. You need a calendar UI components or a JSON parser? No problem, the projects are out there. Most code…

Design/performance – WP7 in blend and code

Post published:March 31, 2011
Post Author:Håkan Reis
Post Category:.Net / User Experience
Post Comments:0 Comments

We (Andreas Hammar and I) are just returning from Tech-Days 2011, we delivered a session on developing applications for Windows Phone 7 in Blend and code. While we were preparing…

Cucumber tests on iPhone/iPad

Post published:February 11, 2011
Post Author:Davor Crnomat
Post Category:Testing / Tips & Tricks / Uncategorized
Post Comments:6 Comments

I am sure everybody has heard about Cucumber ( https://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber) – a tool for Behaviour Driver Development where you describe software behavior in natural language that your customer can understand.…

Future Cocoa Operation

Post published:August 19, 2010
Post Author:Fredrik Olsson
Post Category:Architecture / Cocoa / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:1 Comment

In Java you have for quite some time had the Future interface for encapsulating an asynchronous calculation. Cocoa has had the abstract NSOperation class to encapsulate asynchronous operations. NSOperation do…

Performing any Selector on the Main Thread

Post published:March 30, 2010
Post Author:Fredrik Olsson
Post Category:Cocoa / Embedded / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:36 Comments

Many UI frameworks, including AppKit for Mac OS X and UIKit for iPhone OS, require that all methods to UI components are sent on the main UI thread. Cocoa and…

Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Singleton

Post published:January 15, 2010
Post Author:Fredrik Olsson
Post Category:Android / Architecture / Embedded / Java / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:11 Comments

Enterprise applications and mobile applications have quite different requirements. Starting an enterprise application is just something you do once before it continue running for months or years. On the other…

Google Translate and iPhone apps

Post published:January 11, 2010
Post Author:Fredrik Olsson
Post Category:Cocoa / Embedded / Tips & Tricks
Post Comments:13 Comments

The Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks has a really nice function for acquiring a localized string NSLocalizedString(). Just pass in a key and you are done, for strings that are…

The BROWSABLE category revealed

Post published:September 24, 2009
Post Author:Mattias Rosberg
Post Category:Android / Embedded / Java
Post Comments:12 Comments

Assume that you on your desktop computer browse to a web page with the following page source Clicking on the first link you expect your browser to start a new…