I spoke to Jen Gordon, App designer, Trainer extraordinaire, Founder of Tapptics.com. As developers, we think designers are super-heroes because they seem to make stuff look good with so much ease. So how do they do it? Is it possible to learn how be a design rockstar? Listen to the interview below to find out.
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Need a Server-side for your App? Interview with Applicasa Co-founder, Tzvi Kopetz
I have on here one of the Co-founders of Applicasa to do an interview on how you can use the service as an App Developer. Applicasa is a new startup coming into the app server side market with a fresh outlook. You can send push notifications and also manage a database backend for your app. [...]
How to Change the Colour Scheme of Your App On The Fly
So here is a short story behind the current updates to the Vault templates. Blogplex (released last week) was a hit and got lots of downloads. I guess it was because there were multiple colour schemes and everyone could relate to one of the colours. Enter the Colour Switcher class I decided to add a [...]
How to Successfully Pitch Your App And Make Sure It Gets Reviewed – Interview With Erica Sadun
I interviewed Erica Sadun last week and she delivered with lots of tips that will definitely help you. If you don’t know Erica, she wrote the iOS Developer’s Cookbook series, Writer at TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) and iOS Developer. Most of your pitches to review sites get unanswered and that is because of some [...]
How To Promote An App Strategically On Facebook
I am sure you have thought of it at one point or the other. Can you buy Facebook ads to promote your app and still make a profit? The quick answer is Yes and No. No, because you cannot directly promote an app profitably at the moment. Not at the cost per click rates that [...]
Two Free Themes And You Get To Have A Say
Note #1: So I’m thinking about giving away some free themes for you . . . IF you’re potentially interested in helping shape this themes, that would be lovely. It’s going to take some significant time to put together. But before I go crazy making this thing, I want to make sure you actually want [...]
1 Common Mistake That Will Make Your App Fail
You may or may not have heard of an Italian Economist called Vilfredo Pareto. He is noted as coming up with what is widely known as the 80-20 principle which states that 80% of effects come from 20% of causes This is a principle that, like it or not, can either make your app a [...]
Some personal Info . . . And It's time to start listening to your requests
So, on most weeks I usually send out tips on app development Well . . . today is going to be a bit different I want to open up a little bit and share something more personal.
How To Change The Tint Color Of Tab Bar Icons
Tab bar icons always have a grey tint by default and a blue gradient when selected. That is all good but what happens if this colour scheme does not fit your design.? Here is how to change that. What this does is to make sure both the selected and unselected images are set to the [...]
Here is How One Developer Tore The Photoly Theme Apart
I love it when people take action. Alina, who is a Client of the Vault bought the Photoly theme and within a week used it to design her Android app called MegaWords. Here are some screenshots. Here are some take-aways from Alina’s story. Take action and to Increase your Chances of Success. Some people hesitate [...]