Tweet With the introduction of iOS 5, Apple implicitly indicated that it will soon remove the ability for developers to access the unique device identifier, also known as UDID. While not the most important API in the entire iOS SDK, many in the app ecosystem have grown dependent on this UDID, for legitimate aggregate measurement needs, [...]
Tweet Making great apps is so hard. We’re never sure we manage to do it right. But we strive to. And today, it is with great amazement that we discover what our effort has led to… We try to stay humble and we iterate a lot, we incorporate user feedback, we look at stats, we [...]
Tweet This post is fairly technical in nature, but also fairly accessible. Inter-app communication is still in its infancy. Indeed, as powerful software publishers would have it, each app or each suite of apps would attempt to lock users into a unique file format to achieve a sort of monopole. This is clearly what [...]
Tweet Appsfire as a project started over 24 months ago. At the time, iOS was already fairly developed, but User Interfaces rarely erred outside of the recommended guidelines (also by fear of not being approved), except for games where everything goes. Apple had polished and optimized the vertical scrollable view (UITableView for our Cocoa readers), [...]
Tweet After Apple’s apparent decision to discontinue use of the Unique Device IDentifier (UDID) in iOS5, a large segment of the iOS developer community has been searching for an alternative solution. To serve the community in a way that is both accessible and non-proprietary, Appsfire is introducing the open-source OpenUDID initiative http://OpenUDID.com thereby inviting all stakeholders to [...]
