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InAppSettingsKit: open settings framework
Should iPhone app settings be placed in Settings.app or included in-app? — There has been quite some debate on that topic and we don’t want to repeat everything all over again. In our eyes there are a...
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The patent case we haven’t called
Recently, we stumbled across a patent application that pricked up our ears. Apparently, Apple starts patenting mobile app ideas—and one of those ideas is (partly) ours. Where To? 1.0 and patent drawing...
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PatentGate — Apple responded, resolved amicably
To our surprise, the „PatentGate“ story, first revealed by Dan Wineman, ignited a true blogosphere frenzy. The New York Times, TUAW, The Register, TechCrunch, GigaOM, n-tv and heise online are just a...
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Simulating Core Location
iPhone developers using Core Location in their apps sometimes have a hard time. To test their apps, they have to go outside and conduct real-world tests. Not the worst thing fitness-wise, at least if...
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Revised App Store Featured Entry Scraper
Our FileMaker database where we import rankings and featured entries for each day and country News from our little tool to monitor the App Store for featured entries: Thanks to Dominik Wagner from...
View ArticleRetrieve iOS device colors
I recently came across a private API to find out the hardware device color of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. There are two color values, the DeviceColor (front side) and the DeviceEnclosureColor...
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9% Apple Watch users
9% of all current Where To? users also have an Apple Watch and ran Where To? for Apple Watch at least once. That’s what our backend statistics show. We’re surprised by this high number just 3 months...
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The iMessage App Store: First Thoughts & Observations
After our launch of Where To? 10 which includes an iMessage app, I was fascinated how it would perform in the new iMessage App Store. Similar to the Apple Watch App Store, Apple chose to build a new,...
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Fix for the missing network activity indicator on iPhone X
Recently, I was wondering why Where To? on iPhone X didn’t show the activity indicator in the status bar while it was fetching places from the network. I discovered that iPhone X actually doesn’t...
View ArticleInAppSettingsKit 3.0
The popular open source framework to easily add in-app settings to your iPhone apps has been released in version 3.0. Normally, iOS apps use the Settings.bundle resource to add app-specific settings in...
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