About one and a half years ago I decided to change companies. I was sick and tired of producing low quality software at my previous employer. I joined Synyx, a…

It has been a while since our 1.0 release of I think I spider, but we have been working hard on a new major release with a couple of great…

One of the most impressive talks for me at WWDC 2010 was session 306 – “Automating Use Interface Testing with Instruments”. I’ve been wanting to check it out ever since…

On Wednesday, I’ll be giving a presentation on Apple’s Game Center at the local CocoaHeads Group, here in Karlsruhe. Game Center is Apple’s social gaming network, that lets you invite…

When you enable Apple Push Notifications (APN) for your App, your device generates a unique device token and pass it to the didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken method in your App delegate. Usually, you’ll…

Today we are proud to present our own very first App (it’s actually our second Android App) that made it to the App Store and Android Market – I think…

It has been a while since my last update on our efforts over at the mobile solutions blog. The most important announcement was without any doubt the imminent release of…

If you add a store to your app and use In App Purchases to collect your payments, there are a couple of limitations your have to live with. One of…

We improved our “I think I spider” App quite a bit since Beta 1. Among other stuff we added some nice sound effects. If you want to check it out,…

Our little pet project “I think I spider” is almost ready to be thrown out into the wild! That means we are running a closed beta for iOS devices for…

We are working on a fair number of Apps here at our mobile team and today we are proud to announce one of them: I think I spider! The “I…

There’s a lot going on over at the mobile solutions blog, so in case you are not subscribed to our feed, which I hope you are, you can grab it…

Have you ever pondered on the NSString class reference and you were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of methods? I certainly have and due to the endless possibilities those methods…

Before flying off to WWDC last month, I watched a whole bunch of sessions from 2009. Among others a session on “Prototyping iPhone User Interfaces” by Bret Victor. If you…

In my last summary I forgot to mention, that I will be at WWDC this year. Now WWDC is over, I just got back and if you want to know…

I’m going to Apple’s WWDC this year and I’m pretty excited to fully dive into iPhone development for the whole next week. That it takes place in San Francisco is…

It has been quite a while since my last update on what’s happening over at our Mobile Solutions Blog, so let’s get right into it. One of the most interesting…

In my first installment, we laid the foundation for todays blog post. So don’t hesitate to head back for a recap, if you need to. You can download the code…

When you submit an App to the Apple App Store it has to go through a “rigorous quality check”, conducted by Apple. Although there are plenty of resources out there,…

We wanted to give our users the possibility to find our office. On the iPhone, the simplest way to do it, is to use Google Maps and the MapKit framework.…

Since the inception of our mobile blog last month a lot has happened over at http://mobile.synyx.de. I’m going to highlight some of the stuff for you here. The biggest news…

This is the inception of Synyx Mobile Solutions. In the near future we’ll blog here about a wide range of topics in the mobile space. No matter if it’s Google’s…