How to Go to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

by Jana Doughty on August 18, 2015 7 comments

Have you ever been in a place where the population triples for 30 days and no one can walk anywhere faster than a trendy grandmother?

Have you ever had countless performers get in your face with flyers and pitches to see their shows?

Have you heard of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival takes over the city for the month of August. There are street musicians, buskers, open beer gardens, food trucks, DJs, dancers, acrobats, and living statues galore.

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Readerly – Sean Miller

by Sean Miller on August 4, 2015 No comments

Are you a developer?

Are you an artist?

Have you ever considered that apps could be art?

I started my own app-as-art journey about a year and a half ago when I had an idea to build an app that would help students develop their critical reading skills. The biggest challenge in building this app (Readerly) has been in coming to terms with how monumental a task building—and marketing—an app can be.

With the idea for Readerly buzzing around in my head, I explored my development options and quickly discovered LiveCode was the ideal tool with which to build my app. Learning to code with LiveCode has helped me to appreciate that it’s possible to be more than just a consumer of other people’s apps. Now that I’m more familiar with the fundamentals of LiveCode as a development platform, my eyes are opened to a host of other possibilities for apps.

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How to Make a Business Plan

by Iain Morrison on July 30, 2015 No comments

Are you trying to start an app business?

Do you like beach holidays and analogies?

As someone who just returned from a very relaxing holiday, I have only one complaint (that leads to an analogy): the swimming pool at the hotel was freezing! It was too hot to avoid it and it was fine once I was actually in it, but the anticipation of actually getting in it was…?

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How to Deploy Apps to Android Devices

by Panagiotis Merakos on July 21, 2015 8 comments

Are you writing an app for Android?

Do you want to test your Android app on an actual Android device?

If you are developing for Android and you want to test the app either in a simulator or on a physical android device, then you will need the Android software development kit (SDK). The Android SDK  enables developers to create applications for the Android platform.

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Ready? HTML5 Deployment Reveals Its First Preview!

by Kevin Miller on July 15, 2015 26 comments

Are you excited about HTML5?

Have you been dreaming about all the things you and HTML5 can do?

We have a treat for you today. Our team has been hard at work on the HTML5 engine and we’ve built two simple web apps for you to try. Please bear in mind that this technology is still at a fairly early stage – you can’t build your own apps yet.

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