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Modal controller as a Popover on iPad

On iPads the modal controllers can be presented as a popover views. Here's how you can do it. There are some tricky problems which the following code removes, such as, the popover view shows white rounded corners which are undisrable (more discussed here):

 

 

iPhone SDK: Cross fade Sound using Core Audio-AVAudioPlayer

Crossfade sound: dim the first playing sound track & in parallel start and increase the volume of the second playing sound track.

Restrictions from Apple:

- AVAudioPlayer Class Reference:"Play multiple sounds simultaneously, one sound per audio player, with precise synchronization"

Android: IAFF ProCalendar Android app has been released

After months of hardwork and rigorous testing GammaPoint has released the Android version of the popular iPhone shift calendar/organizer app for IAFF Pro-Calendar. We are proud to bring such sophisticated mobile apps to the market.
Goto Shift Calendar Organizer app for Android to download

iOS Apps - Symbolicating crash logs

Its very difficult to read the crash logs for iPhone and iPad apps and to find the exact location of crash.
A reliable method to find the source line number & method name from crash logs:

Android String Resources Error

Multiple annotations found at this line: - error: Multiple substitutions specified in non-positional format; did you mean to add the formatted="false" attribute? - error: Unexpected end tag string
 
Solution: Change your string declartion to:

Android baby's first journal app

GammaPoint has released baby's first journal, an Android app to store your baby's precious moments.
This is a must have app for new moms.

How big is the app market

Mobile industry is as huge as number of people on the planet.  In PC days, a family of 4 will own 1 or 2 PCs but with smartphones and tablets,the same size household can easily have upto 6 of these mobile devices with every device(iPhone, iPad, Android phones, tablets, Windows phones, Blackberry and other new mobile platform based devices soon to be released) carrying its own sets of apps. GammaPoint  - a Portland mobile apps development  firm has seen a tremendous demand in this field in year 2010 and doesn't see it slowing down in near future.

Android : How to have multiple activities under a single tab of TabActivity

Yes, its possible.
1. Lets first have our main activity as
public class multiple extends TabActivity {
@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main_tab);
Resources res = getResources(); // Resource object to get Drawables
TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();  // The activity TabHost
TabHost.TabSpec spec;  // Resusable TabSpec for each tab

iPhone: Adding a banner above the Navigation Controller.

Apple SDK or IB doesn't allow to add banner images to the top of the view.

Similar to the MySpace iPhone app's banner on the top of the Navaigation Views, we wanted to add a Banner Logo image on the top the Nav Controller.

Here's the solution:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {

 

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