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Retain Users With These Mobile App Onboarding Inspirations
In a world where 90 percent of all downloaded apps are used once and then deleted by users, flawless onboarding is essential. It’s unlikely users will come back to your app if they don’t understand how it works or how it will make their lives better the first time around. Therefore, a successful onboarding process…
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Top 10 Most Common Mobile App Design Mistakes
The mobile app market is saturated with competition. Trends turn over quickly, but no niche can last very long without several competitors jumping onto the bandwagon. These conditions result in a high failure rate across the board for the mobile app market. Only 20% of downloaded apps see users return after the first use, whereas…
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iOS User Interfaces: Storyboards vs. NIBs vs. Custom Code
I often hear iOS developers ask some variant of the same key question: What’s the best way to develop a UI in iOS: through Storyboards, NIBs, or code? Answers to this question, explicitly or implicitly, tend to assume that there’s a mutually exclusive choice to be made, one that is often addressed upfront, before development.…
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Build a GPS Speedometer
During the first part on Mobiletuts+, we covered the basics of AIR for Android development and also put in place the fundamentals for our speedometer app by using GPS support to determine our current speed. Now we’ll put the finishing touches to the app by building its user interface and also adding code to allow…
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Building a jQuery Mobile Theme With Adobe Fireworks
In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how easy it is to create a jQuery Mobile theme in Fireworks, preview the theme, and move it into an HTML5 jQuery sample in Dreamweaver CS 5.5. The ability to create jQuery Mobile pages in Dreamweaver CS 5.5 is a really neat addition to the line up. For a designer,…
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Tip: Close Your Android AIR App on Back Button
While developing AIR for Android apps, you should consider whether you need your apps to run in the background, especially if they are highly intensive graphic games. View Tutorial
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How to Build an RSS Reader with jQuery Mobile
In conjunction with the jQuery conference in Boston, John Resig announced and released the highly anticipated jQuery Mobile. Though currently in an alpha state, the framework is fantastic. Today, we’ll dive in, and build a simple Tuts+ RSS reader, using PHP and jQuery Mobile. When we’re finished, you’ll have the ability to add this simple…
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Dealing with iPhone Screen Orientation in Flash AS3
The way your iPhone app deals with change of screen orientation is a major issue that you will have to address at a very stage of your app development cycle. By default the iPhone will change the orientation of your application view if the user rotates the phone to view that way. This tutorial will…
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Quick Tip: Simulate an Android Lock Screen with ActionScript
The Lock Screen is a part of an operating system, mostly used in mobile devices, that prevents accidental input. This Quick Tip will show you how to simulate an Android Lock Screen with ActionScript. Let’s get going! View tutorial Source (http://active.tutsplus.com/)
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