BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet
Posted by Simon in Adobe, AIR, BlackBerry, Business, Enterprise, Flash, Flash Builder, Flash Mobile, Flex, Mobile, PlayBook, Tablets on Jun 6th, 2011 | 0 comments
A few weeks ago, we decided to fly to Johannesburg to attend the “Meet The BlackBerry® PlayBook™” event at the forum | the campus on 24th May 2011 in association with Adobe. The event was split into a business track and a developer track, which catered for most of the attendees. A few of us went to both tracks and found the presentations to be very useful, gave us an insight into what markets BlackBerry are aiming PlayBook at compared to the Apple iPad and other tablet competitors. After chatting to many of the BlackBerry representatives at the event, they all said there has been a lot of interest from small, medium and large enterprises in South Africa regarding the PlayBook. So we are looking forward to the official launch of the device next month.
The reason ThoughtFaqtory is so interested in this device, is because we can leverage our existing Adobe Flash and Flex skills to develop great user experiences for the enterprise market. If you are interested in getting an app developed for the BlackBerry PlayBook, please get in touch with us on our website at www.thoughtfaqtory.com or email us inquiries@thoughtfaqtory.com.
We have also ported some of our apps over to the device already, if you are interested in seeing any of them please let us know via the details above.
Also, check out this video below regarding the “BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet for Business”.
Another video called “BlackBerry PlayBook – Flash”.
Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 now available
Posted by Simon in Adobe, AIR, Android, Flash, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flash Mobile, Flex, Mobile, RIA on May 3rd, 2011 | 0 comments
A year after Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 SDK were released, new versions are available with Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 SDK! The main focus for Flex 4.5 SDK and Flash Builder 4.5 is the ability to build mobile applications that target the Google Android, Blackberry Tablet OS, and Apple iOS operating systems. Additionally, Flex 4.5 SDK introduces new Spark components and improvements for large application development while Flash Builder 4.5 introduces dozens of new coding productivity features for faster ActionScript and MXML development.
Adobe have really focused on mobile development for this release, offering developers one tool, one development framework and one codebase to build mobile applications on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS. Flash Builder 4.5 also helps developers make these applications ready to deploy for an app store/market. You can immediately develop applications for Android, and support for BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS will be available through free Flex and Flash Builder updates in June.
Here are a few resources to get things started:
Build your First Mobile Application in Flash Builder 4.5
Build your First Flex 4.5 Application
Mobile development using Adobe Flex 4.5 SDK and Flash Builder 4.5
Tweetbot for iPhone now available
Posted by Simon in Apple, iPhone on Apr 13th, 2011 | 0 comments
Tweetbot from Tapbots is now available and the team at ThoughtFaqtory have been using it this morning. The UI design and overall UX is really great, it is definitely the best Twitter app on the App Store period.
Do yourself a favour and enter the wrong username or password when adding a Twitter account to see some cool UI design.
Tweetbot in action below:
Tweetbot for iPhone from Mark Jardine on Vimeo.
Our iPad 2 orders arriving soon
Posted by Simon in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Objective-C on Apr 7th, 2011 | 0 comments
We are currently working on some really cool iPhone & iPad apps for our clients at the moment. In the coming weeks we will be able to share more about what we are working on, but for now you will just have to wait a little longer. Our iPad 2 orders should be arriving in the coming days, so we are really excited and can’t wait to get our hands on one of these devices. All our apps are going to take advantage of the new capabilities, including the new processing power available from the iPad 2.
We will be posting screens shots and videos of new the apps in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
UIKit for Mac development using Chameleon
Posted by Simon in Apple, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, Objective-C, Tablets on Mar 23rd, 2011 | 0 comments
If you’re an iOS developer, you’re already familiar with UIKit, the framework used to create apps for the iPhone, iPod and iPad. Chameleon is a drop in replacement for UIKit that runs on Mac OS X. In many cases, your iOS code doesn’t need to change at all in order to run on a Mac.
This new framework is a clean room implementation of the work done by Apple for iOS. The only thing Chameleon has in common with UIKit are the public class and method names. The code is based on Apple’s documentation and does not use any private APIs or other techniques disallowed by the Mac App Store.
Since Chameleon relies heavily on Core Animation, a proprietary technology owned by Apple, it can not be used on other platforms such as Android or Windows. It only allows iOS apps to be ported to the Mac.
Chameleon is a work in progress. The framework currently implements about 60% of UIKit after nine months of work.
To see what is possible with this framework, we suggest that you download Twitterrific from the Mac App Store. This product was created with Chameleon.
