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DevJuice: The easy way to set up an OS X Mavericks test environment

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2013)

OK, this is going to be a "duh" moment for most Mac developers, but apparently there are some people who are having issues with setting up a test environment in which to run OS X Mavericks. I have to admit that I was one of those who first started asking if anyone was having success running the ...

App Camp for Girls would introduce girls to coding

by Mike Schramm (Jun 4th, 2013)

The App Camp for Girls is a recently unveiled Indiegogo project that's designed to provide support for young girls interested in putting together iPhone and mobile apps. The camp itself is planned for a run in Portland later this year, and will allow girls to go through all of the steps of ...

DevJuice: Spark Inspector offers real time iOS interface inpection

by Erica Sadun (May 18th, 2013)

Spark Inspector (US$39.99 single-license) offers an exciting new development tool. Targeting devs looking to refine their user interfaces, it enables you to interactively tweak view properties like frames and layers. The app centers around an Interface Builder-like experience, with ...

DevJuice: Apple's ObjC-JavaScript Bridge

by Erica Sadun (May 17th, 2013)

In a new post at his Steamclock Software blog, Nigel Brooke writes how Apple has added new Objective-C-to-Javascript bridging to WebKit: "This new API supports straightforward embedding of the JavaScriptCore interpreter into native Objective-C projects, including reading and writing variables ...

Majic Jungle's The Blockheads charges on

by Mike Schramm (Apr 3rd, 2013)

Developer David Frampton is one of our favorites around here at TUAW -- he made a big splash on the App Store a while ago with Chopper 2, but these days he's working on a huge sandbox app he's made called The Blockheads, which is a Minecraft-style game where you can explore a world with the ...

DevJuice: Apple will no longer accept apps that use UDID calls starting May 1

by Erica Sadun (Mar 21st, 2013)

Apple has posted a warning on their developer news site that they will no longer accept apps that reference the unique device identifier, starting May 1. It writes, "Starting May 1, the App Store will no longer accept new apps or app updates that access UDIDs. Please update your apps and ...

NSBasic/AppStudio now native on OS X

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2013)

George Henne, the developer of the AppStudio development environment for NSBasic, has announced that the latest, just-released version of the software, version 3, now includes completely native support for Mac. AppStudio allows developers to use BASIC or Javascript to create iPhone or Android ...

Daily iPhone App: Puzzle Retreat is the result of a lot of hard work

by Mike Schramm (Feb 5th, 2013)

The Voxel Agents is a development firm that's seen a lot of success with the Train Conductor apps, a set of puzzle games where you guide trains across a series of parallel tracks, attempting to keep them from crashing for as long as possible. The company has been working on a new game for quite ...

Stanford offers free iOS app development course on iTune U again

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 24th, 2013)

Stanford is offering its online iOS App development course starting this month, according to a report in MacRumors. Coding Together: Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad is one of the most popular courses on iTunes U and its latest version steps students through iOS 6 development. The course ...

Dev Juice: Tokens 1.1 released, TUAW-exclusive promo

by Erica Sadun (Jan 21st, 2013)

Tokens is a brilliant little app that enables devs to track promo codes they submit to websites for review. We looked at the app a few months ago and fell in love with its features. Now, the developers are celebrating their 1.1 release with a sale that starts tomorrow morning. The ...

CES Unveiled: Sphero reveals new apps to roll around in

by Mike Schramm (Jan 7th, 2013)

The good folks at Orbotix, makers of the little roly-poly robot Sphero, were also in attendance at CES Unveiled last night, where they were showing off a number of new apps coming to add more functionality to the robotic ball. Sharky the Beaver was shown off a while ago, but it was on display ...

Testing for OS X vs iOS

by Erica Sadun (Dec 26th, 2012)

Yesterday, I was messing around building shared NSLayoutConstraint code to be used across iOS and OS X. I put in a few #if TARGET_OS_MAC directives, assuming they'd just work. They didn't. Turns out that you should always check for TARGET_OS_IPHONE first, before TARGET_OS_MAC because the ...

GREE tweaks US operations, invests in MunkyFun

by Mike Schramm (Dec 6th, 2012)

GREE is a very large Japanese social network similar to Facebook or Twitter that has been trying to secure some mindspace in the West by acquiring game developers and their large audiences. The company is making a heavy investment in MunkyFun, makers of My Horse and Bounty Bots, for $3 million. ...

Apple extends Chinese developer outreach program

by Erica Sadun (Dec 5th, 2012)

Apple Developer Publications just released a Chinese translation of "Start Developing iOS Apps Today." Developers might be more familiar with the English version, which introduces the development process from the ground up. As a nice touch, Apple has also translated its feedback form for this ...

Aurora Feint's Danielle Cassley to return with Avengees

by Mike Schramm (Dec 4th, 2012)

Danielle Cassley is a name we haven't heard in a while. She, along with Jason Citron, was one of the original founders of Aurora Feint, the game that turned into a social gaming service called OpenFeint that was eventually sold off to a Japanese social network (and will soon be closed). Citron ...