The long awaited Android version of the Divine Office award-winning mobile app is now available for a one-time purchase price of 14.99 USD on the Google Android Market and on the Amazon Android Appstore. This app is an opportunity for you to participate in the recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours: the public prayer… →
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Surgeworks launches “Bible App” for Mac OS X on Mac App Store (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (May 31, 2011)—The Divine Office Catholic Ministry in partnership with Surgeworks, a Salt Lake City-based application developer and graphical interaction design firm, has announced a new app for the Apple Mac App Store based on 20 versions of the Bible in six different languages. The Bible App features scriptures in English,… →
Get positive, 5 star reviews for your iPhone or iPad App with Request a Review Alert for iOS SDK
Invite your happy users to leave a review for your app, after 10, 20 or 30 days of use. An alert will pop up, similar to the image above, and the user will have the option to go to the App Store in order to leave a review, hide the alert temporary or permanently. Analyzing… →
Market Research: iOS Digital Magazines and Content Delivery with Subscription Business Model Through App Store In-App Purchases.
Why should we look into in-app purchases? Most of the top grossing apps in the iTunes App Store are now driving revenue with in-app purchases. Of the top 20 grossing game apps, 12 (60 percent) drive revenue with in-app purchases – nine (45 percent) of them are free apps with the only revenue source being… →
Divine Office Wins About.com Readers’ Choice Awards for Best Catholic Website, iPhone App, iPad App, Podcast (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, (March 15, 2011)—The readers of The New York Times Company’s About.com Website have selected a suite of offerings from the Divine Office Catholic Ministry as “The Best Catholic Website,” “The Best Catholic iPhone App,” “The Best Catholic iPad App” and “The Best Catholic Podcast” for 2011. With more than 800 topic… →
How to: Fresh Install of Your Dev App
So you just got a new version of your unreleased app from the developers and you want to check it out as soon as possible, right? Most of the time you could just drag it into iTunes and sync, but sometimes they tell you need to do a fresh install. Here’s a breakdown of how… →
Launch Maps from your iPhone app
Maps Application allows you to view and search Google Maps, see traffic reports, satellite views, get directions from one location to another. Launching Maps application from your own iPhone application can be done with one line of code:
Apple’s future secret plans revealed? iPhone 5, iPhone Nano, iPad 2 and 3, new Apple TV, new MacBook Air
As rumors multiply in anticipation of Apple’s March 2nd event we see the full 2011 pipeline of Apple products being listed and lots of details leaking about each of these products. This doesn’t really sound like Apple does it? Still, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Daily Mail, eastern manufacturers, and more of those anonymous… →
Android Marketplace Revenue Figures: Impressive Growth… or is it?
About.com 2011 Reader's Choice Awards
Surgeworks has been selected as a finalist in the About.com Reader’s Choice Awards! These awards recognize the Internet’s most popular apps, websites and more – it’s a big honor for us and we are excited to see that some of the work we’ve done for the Catholic community is recognized and appreciated. You can read… →
Divine Office iPhone and iPad App, Podcast and Web Site finalist at About.com’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards
About.com’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards will showcase the best products, features and services in multiple categories, from technology to hobbies to parenting to religion. Nominations were accepted from January 13, 2011, until February 4, 2011. DivineOffice.org has been selected as one of the five finalists for Best Catholic Website in the 2011 About.com Catholicism Readers’… →
iTunes Connect Error: “Upload Aborted or Timed Out.” when uploading app’s screenshots
When I first saw “Upload Aborted or Timed Out.” I was trying to replace a screenshot for Divine Office Mac on the iTunes Connect interface for the Mac App Store. But googling around I learned this also applies to iPad and iPhone apps. Here is how I solved the issue. After trying the usual stuff… →
Develop your Angry Birds clone over a weekend with Corona SDK or GameSalad
If you have any interest in iPhone gaming development, you must have heard of Robert Nay, the 14-year-old developer from Utah that created Bubble Ball, a physics based puzzle game that reached the top #1 free game on the App Store in a matter of days, getting well over three million downloads. The moment I… →
Core Data
Core Data is a framework that allows creating relational data base. How to create a project using Core Data is shown on example which stores names. Create new project, choose “Window-based Application” and “Use Core Data for storage” (image 1). In “Resources” you will find xcdatamodel file in which you can see entities, attributes and… →
Android Marketshare Tops iPhone
Google’s Android mobile platform just stepped ahead of Apple’s iPhone among smartphone subscribers. That’s what the latest figures from from comScore‘s mobile phone trending research are showing for November 2010. Although both platforms trail BlackBerry’s 33.5% market share, Android jumped more than 6% to secure 26% of the market while the iPhone grew just 0.8%… →