Last week Apple featured BuzzVoice 3.0 under New and Noteworthy Apps on the iTunes App Store’s front page — a real treat for any app developer. This had a strong effect on app sales and it wasn’t long before BuzzVoice broken into the top charts under the App Store’s News section making it as [...]

At the end of June Apple sent a notification out to members of its developer program advising them that all new iPhone apps and updates would have to be built with the iPhone SDK 4. The important bit of the email read thus:
Make sure that your applications are compatible with iOS 4. All [...]

I’m currently working on an Android app and I’ve decided to use the java.net package for making HTTP requests. While the java.net package includes support for caching requests it does not include a default caching implementation like some other libraries — apparently Android developers are left to roll their own. I looked into [...]

I guess the topic of dynamically loading fonts in Flash swfs is fairly old by now, and has been covered by several other people. But this was always something I meant to write up so … better late than never? I should say that while the way I did it back in the [...]

I’ve worked with Adobe Flash for years and never had to develop with screen readers in mind until recently.  Making a swf that would play nice with screen readers was more involved than I’d have imagined.  The challenges included operating systems that disregarded de facto standards, browsers fussy about the embed code used, and what [...]