iOS - Xander Dumaine

Choosing a mobile platform to target

As a mobile developer, I often get questions like "Nice site! When's the mobile app coming?" or "we really need an app for this specific need, which platform should we use? or even "I want to make an app, but I don't know what yet -

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Tablets: A Disambiguation (Part 2)

Arguably the most important factor for people buying a first tablet is price. A common theme among them is to go for a “budget” tablet. I put budget in quotes because I prefer the term cheap. Using cheap more accurately conveys both the price and the quality of the device,

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Tablets: A Disambiguation (Part 1)

In the first quarter of this year, 2013, Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads1. Samsung shipped 8.8 million, Asus 2.7 million, and Microsoft 0.9 million. With others, this means in just 3 months, almost 50 million tablets were shipped worldwide. Of this, Android comprised 56.5% of

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Authenticating an HTTP Request with Client Certificates in iOS

I'm writing an app that uses a client-certificate to authenticate while performing a SOAP request. Unfortunately, I'm writing this app in PhoneGap, and the iOS WebView does not support Client Certificates for AJAX requests. I found some various sources of code and examples for doing this, but it took quite

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PhoneGap in iOS 6

Update 9/27: This post relates to PhoneGap 2.0. 2.1 appears to have fixed a number of iOS 6 compatibility issues, and I recommend upgrading. Today I upgraded my Xcode to 4.5, which now builds apps against the iOS 6 sdk. This included many breakages to my

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PhoneGap - Developing Cross-Platform Mobile Applications

Developing a mobile application can be a tough venture. Many times, you're learning a language (or languages) that you've never used before, like Objective-C (Cocoa), Java, or c#. For most, there are APIs and SDKs to become familiar with (or in the case of Android, a whole slew of them)