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Use the Pixastic library to manipulate images

Posted on April 29, 2013 by George Henne

Hussain Al-Marzooq of Bahrain sent us a fun sample. He used the Pixastic JavaScript library to manipulate an image displayed on the screen. This library makes it easy to do a variety of different image manipulations. Here’s how…

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What does FastClick do?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by George Henne

AppStudio 3.0.9 added a new feature: FastClick. It will make your app feel faster and more responsive when running on a mobile device. Here’s the reason: mobile devices have a built in 200 to 500ms delay from the time you … Continue reading →

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Hacking the Print statement

Posted on April 11, 2013 by George Henne

AppStudio 3.0 introduced a much improved Print statement. It wasn’t long before one of our users, Erkan Kaplan, started wondering whether he could do to make it do more. He realized the text in it is HTML. That opened up … Continue reading →

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Can I has cheezburger? Emoji!

Posted on April 10, 2013 by George Henne

This blog post best viewed in Safari or Android – you’ll see a Cheezburger below. Emoji are extended characters that are built into mobile devices. There are hundreds of them: arrows, letters, roman numerals, pictures of food, building, transportation, flags, … Continue reading →

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Debugging your app on an iOS device

Posted on April 2, 2013 by George Henne

Ever wanted to debug your app while it’s actually running on an iPhone or iPad? You can do so if you have a Mac.

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Android Browser and Chrome

Posted on March 31, 2013 by George Henne

There has been some confusion in the Android world lately due to the two different browsers on Android devices. Some devices run one, some the other and some run both. Here’s a rundown on what we know about them and … Continue reading →

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How to run your app in Apple’s iOS Simulator

Posted on March 25, 2013 by George Henne

Short of running on an actual device, Apple’s iOS Simulator is the best way to test your apps. It can be configured to act as a iPhone, iPhone 5, iPad, retina and non retina, landscape or portrait. It’s like having … Continue reading →

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AppStudio 3: Giving your app a EULA

Posted on March 8, 2013 by George Henne

In some cases, you will need your customer to agree to an End User License Agreement (EULA) before using your app. AppStudio 3 makes this easy to do. Put the text of your agreement into EULA in Project Properties. The … Continue reading →

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AppStudio 3: Orientation Control

Posted on March 7, 2013 by George Henne

There is no way to stop someone from rotating their device. The screen is refreshes and your app probably doesn’t fit anymore. There are several ways to deal with this: Calculate new sizes and positions for all the controls and … Continue reading →

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AppStudio 3: Moving, resizing and hiding controls

Posted on March 6, 2013 by George Henne

When planning for AppStudio 3, we realized we had to improve moving, resizing and hiding controls. There was little consistency: jQuery Mobile controls working differently than iWebKit, the names of the objects to be altered was inconsistent, jQeury Mobile 1.3 … Continue reading →

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