The alarm clock has been used for many years. Originally it was just an annoying noise that rang or beeped at the time you set. Then radio alarms arrive so you could wake up listening to your favourite radio station. With the mobile phones the biggest improvement was being able to select a song instead…
Some people who have developed Android apps will know there are a few different suites of tools or integrated development environments (IDEs) to do so, each one of them with its own pros and cons. While most developers, Tradebox included, use Eclipse with the Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin; Google have been working on Android…
The subject of “free” applications is a bit of a touchy subject for some people, especially Apple and Google. This summer the European Commission forced Google to relabel all applications listed in its store which were free to download, but offered in-app purchases. Google then relabeled the names of their top app stores to remove…
When Apple introduced the flat design principal to its iOS operating system, it sparked a fire in the design world. Designers and developers were rapidly adopting the new standard, with old apps very quickly looking outdated and needing a refresh. Flat design got rid of any skeuomorphic properties from design, essentially broken real world metaphors…
Application testing is one of the most important parts of the development process, which is why a lot of people pay so much attention to it. It could also be why Apple acquired Burstly, the company which owns TestFlight, last year for what is thought to be a considerable amount of money. Today Apple announced…
This week our iOS and Android application for An Comunn G ¡idhealach, organisers of the Royal National M²d, was published. It’s a project we’ve really enjoyed working on and we’re incredibly happy with the finished product. When we originally spoke to the organisers, they were looking for an application which conveyed a large amount of…
If you stay up to date with technology news, chances are you will have heard of Tile, the little square keyring which tracks your lost items. It’s one of the most useful hardware additions that comes with an app outside of the health tracking space, and this week it raised a further $13 Million in…
Last week we talked about the launch of the new Apple mobile devices, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus. This week to accompany the new devices, Apple has made their new iteration of the mobile operating system, iOS 8, available to download. People have been downloading the news OS in droves, with the…
The iPhone 6 launch event was earlier this week, the highly anticipated sixth generation of Apple’s flagship device has seen much attention from all branches of the media for almost a year. Much of the attention leading up to the launch of the device was merely rumours about what the specification would be, here’s a…
Last week we looked at Photosphere from Google, the app that lets you take impressive, endless panorama spheres around you. This week we’re going to take a look at Hyperlapse – the latest release from Instagram to make taking motion video a far easier process. Instagram introduced video to their app about a year ago…