Fonts are very important for any UI design, especially on iPhone and iPad. Selecting correct font for your app may be an issue, because you may like unsupported font and that’s not good. We also run into a similar problem when we were designing iQBloxing and iQBloxing PRO.
So we collected all font families supported on iOS 4: iPhone 4 and iPad.
Here is a list of these fonts:
iAd is an awesome advertisement platform provided by Apple. It’s a revolutionary platform which allows to create and show rich advertisement in iOS apps. Also it’s a good opportunity for developers to make some income in their iPhone and iPad apps by adding iAd.
It have been said a lot about Apple iAd already, so this post is not about iAd itself. We’d like to tell you how to avoid getting rejected from the AppStore if you use iAd in your app.
In April 2010 during iOS 4 presentation Steve Jobs announced new advertisement platform – iAd. This platform is intended to allow developers of free apps to earn on their apps showing advertisement. The main idea of iAd is to connect interactivity (using smartphone or tablet) and emotionality of advertisement (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, multi-touch). It allows to create absolutely awesome advertisement which looks like apps with video and audio. In addition, iAd ads is opened inside the app and user do not exit his app and can get back anytime he wants.
Below is the guide on how to add iAd banner into iPhone app. Guide is based on iAd Programming Guide and WWDC 2010 video.
We’ve created videos for each level of iQBloxing showing how to complete them. You can see it on bees4honey’s YouTube channel.
List of all levels with direct links on YouTube is below in this post
Earlier we wrote about our virtual travelling app called Globetrotr. We have created that app quite long ago, we worked hard to find information for interesting places on our planet, we’ve collected photos, places, everything which could be interesting for iPhone community. After polishing our app we had submitted it to the iPhone AppStore.
Hi there!
I’d like to tell about quite usefull thing you can do to drive more traffic to your Android Application published on the Android Market.
There is a special protocol on Android device – “market://” and it’s used to request Android Market for information. It’s great because you can place the link on your application from your website! When someone is reading your site via G1, he/she will be able to click the link and it would open Android Market showing search results with your app in it!
EULA ( End User License Agreement ) is not required to publish your Android app on Market, but it’s a good practice to protect yourself by concluding an agreement with your user. So in this post I will describe simple and quick method of implementing EULA in Android application.
Our EULA implementation is based on class available here. We are using Eclipse 3.3 with ADT plugin installed. So we need to do the following steps to add EULA to Android application:
Now let us study each step in detail. The first step doesn’t demand any explanations, that is why let us go to the second one.
Now let’s start to draw the block on the game surface. As it was said before, in the majority of cases the block is situated on the game field surface, that is why it should be drawn after the game field is drawn. The drawing of a block has no differences from the drawing of cells, though it has some peculiarities. In particular, the block can be in 5 positions (but as it is possible to get an opposite position in a horizontal plane by the mirror reflection, then we can think that there are 3 positions):
Now we can start drawing the cells. Cells are drawn in the main application’s Activity by DrawCells function activated from onDraw.