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Android L GUI v1.0
Today we are really excited to share with you some Android GUI Photoshop resources !Last June Google I/O 2014 edition took place in San Francisco. This event has been marked by important changes and...
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DroidCon Paris 2014
In September was held the second edition of DroidCon Paris, an Android conference organized by the Paris Android User Group and BeMyApp. The agenda was quite stacked, with a whopping 47 talks in just...
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Understand TCP under poor network coverage
When we use our smartphone in a poorly covered network area, like most of the Parisian subway lines, the following scenario happens quite often: we try to load a given resource (web page, json, etc.)...
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Core Data Features in iOS 8 (Part 2)
In our last blog post about Core Data features in iOS 8, we have learned about NSBatchUpdateRequest. This time, we will dig into another new feature: asynchronous fetch requests.Asynchronous fetch...
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Hacking the Navigo
If you ever use public transportation in Paris, you might have noticed the apparition of a slightly different Navigo pass since mid-January. This new pass stars a brand-new Philippe Starck design and...
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Core Data Features in iOS 8 (Part 1)
Last June, Apple introduced iOS 8. And every new version of iOS comes with a bunch of new APIs. Browsing the full list of API differences between iOS 7 and iOS 8, we came across Core Data new features:...
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At the IoT block party, Mobile app is the MC
Connected objects and the Internet of Things clearly are trending topics. The world is already filled with almost 9 billions of connected devices. While fighting for shares in the smartphone industry,...
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How to perform a Google Glass screencast
After several hours of hard coding, your brand new Google Glass app is ready. It’s time for a demonstration! But wait… we’re talking about glasses, how is it possible?Using Google Glass is a...
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Mastering blur and vibrancy with iOS 8
With iOS 7, Apple introduced blur in some native elements (UINavigation, UITabBar, UIAlertView). However developers could only mimick this effect outside those. Starting with iOS 8, native blur is...
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App Makeover #03 – Snapchat
For this new episode, our design team chose to rethink the interface of the sharing ephemeral media application known as Snapchat.Snapchat was launched in 2011 and now has over 82 million monthly...
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iOS 8 extensions
As we are counting days before the public release of iOS 8, we wanted to share some context and tips around App Extensions. An extension offers custom functionality of an app out to the whole system,...
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Creating a relevant suite of test devices
“What does having a relevant pool of equipment mean when I have to test applications? If I’d like to create a test set of mobile devices from scratch, where should I begin? My testing pool hasn’t been...
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ExoPlayer: Google's new Android media player
This week, Google held its annual developer conference, Google I/O. While the keynote was massively focused on Android (with announcements for Android L, Android Wear, Android Auto or Android TV), it...
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What's geofencing?
Geofencing is a technical word for a quite simple concept: it’s all about setting virtual areas and monitoring a smartphone entry and exit of these areas. The main interest is to allow a developer to...
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Good practices for mobile forms
It is getting hard to publish an app where forms are not mandatory. Users are exposed to input data through forms in order to access the service (login, registering), achieve a task (searching,...
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At Applidium, we love to add animations to our applications. They add context to the interface, and are a beautiful addition to a static UI. In fact, we enjoy them so much that we open-sourced some of...
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Manage your app availability on Google Play
This blog post follows this one about the Android Manifest, on the topic of publishing on Google Play. Here, we will discuss Google Play’s Developer Console. It provides useful tools for published...
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Through the prism of Glass
Google’s sneek peaks of the GDK (Glass Development Kit) lets us envisage Google Glass as an interesting platform when designing mobile services.Key changes with the introduction of this new development...
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12 key resources for a mobile project
Here at Applidium, we design mobile services for and with our clients, thus we make extensive use of various tools in order to improve our efficiency.Today we chose to share the tools we trust, besides...
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ADTransitionController improved for iOS7
In one of our previous blog posts, we introduced ADTransitionController, an open source library making it easy to add 3D transitions to iOS applications.A few months ago, Apple released iOS 7 which...
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