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by Skroob 16y ago
I can't speak to Android SDK's maturity, but I can say that the foundation of the iOS SDK has been around a long time. All our Foundation classes are still prefixed with NS. Almost all of the most basic stuff, and even a lot of higher level
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by Skroob 16y ago
Wow, some of the comments about the costs there are flat out insulting. A well done app is going to take time and money to create and polish, and a simple app is almost always anything but simple. Twitteriffic is a well done, "simple", poli
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by Skroob 16y ago
Obviously, a good payment service like this is not a simple problem, but the market is there. PayPal gets a lot of really well deserved hatred, and I can tell you from experience that they treat their merchants just as much like garbage as
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by Skroob 16y ago
Although Carrie Underwood is right there with her in sales. And actually way ahead in major awards.
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by Skroob 16y ago
If you hover over a result in the suggestion list, there's an I'm Feeling Lucky option on the right. Did people ever really use that for anything besides google bomb jokes though?
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by Skroob 16y ago
Why do people believe that the iPad can't be used to create anything? There's apps available for all kinds of creative endeavors, and more appearing every day.
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by Skroob 16y ago
The implication that you can't really be productive, or at least as productive as him, without using Linux with emacs and a tiling WM really tainted the other, better advice in this article for me.
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by Skroob 16y ago
I don't think that's too surprising. The iOS development community is larger and more established. Should Android development ever make it to a similar scale, I'd imagine the community would be similarly complete. Documentation, on the othe
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by Skroob 16y ago
There's a lot of ways they could go, definitely. But they're trying to keep it as simple as they can, from the user's perspective anyway. The best feature of the three multitasking styles they allow is that I don't have to think about it, w
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by Skroob 16y ago
Task completion is unreliable for background processes. It's meant for finishing something quickly before an app goes into an inactive state. The OS is likely to kill the app at any time if it's taking too long or other apps need the resour
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by Skroob 16y ago
Craig Hockenberry's Missing Manual book on iPhone development is excellent, and I recommend it to everyone who's interested in learning iOS development. http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596809775