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aprile 08, 2020, 00:30
We are happy to announce the release of Smart List HD.: the fastest, simplest and yet most powerful shopping list.
Create a beautiful shopping list in a few taps !
Use prepared lists so you can shop again for the same items with minimal effort every week. Get access to lots ...
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ottobre 01, 2019, 00:26
Unfortunately the huge price changes Google Places have applied this year to their API aren't sustainable. We tried a lot to reduce requests and so on but it seems Google Places API is now designed to kill all competing apps.
We will be removing Best Restaurants from both Google ...
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dicembre 07, 2013, 20:24
As I write these lines, iOS7's share is above 70%. And I feel about 30% more stupid because I made a sizeable mistake.
Supporting both iOS 6 and iOS 7 is a pain in the ass. I won't go into detail here on why since if you care ...
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luglio 03, 2012, 19:17
Everybody talks about Android fragmentation. I have felt it. Inside me. It hurts.
For many apps, fragmentation isn't such a big issue. If you're building an app for a summer festival, all you need to handle is different screen sizes and it will work everywhere. Well, not really ...
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febbraio 27, 2012, 22:25
An innocent fallback network
As regular readers may know my LED Flashlight HD app has had quite a tremendous success on the Android market. On this day it passed the 5 million download mark. Champagne. I am a proud leader in the glorious flashlight market.
Because Admob could only fill ...
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ottobre 12, 2011, 01:50
As a programmer I learned the basics of optimization: if you're going to need the same data a million times, prepare it once then reuse it. Or in other words if you do things once instead of a million times, surprisingly it will happen faster overall.
Why is it ...
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settembre 09, 2011, 18:48
In my previous post about Google's AppEngine horrible price hike I jokingly concluded that to optimize my apps in order to make appengine costs reasonable again the only solution would be to remove any useful code.
The higher the latency for your page, the more instances get spawned by ...
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settembre 01, 2011, 15:57
There has a been a lot of badmouthing about Google's AppEngine new pricing. Basically it went from being rather cheap to just incredibly expensive compared to normal hosting. Each of my instances (using ~30 mb of memory) will now cost (0.08 x 24 hours x 30 days) ~= 57 ...
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