Author: George Henne

We’re pleased to announce the results of our fourth programming contest.

We had three categories: Business, Fun and Education. All registered NSB/AppStudio users were welcome to participate in the contest. Prizes were $100 USD in each category.

Judging was by NSB’s experts. All judging was arbitrary and final. We looked for quality, performance, ease of use, sophistication and overall coolness. Apps could be anything: Enterprise, business, commercial, education, games or even something whimsical.

All programs had to be created using NSB/AppStudio. Entries could be commercial, shareware or freeware, and for iPhone, iPad, Android or multiple platforms. Code could be written in JavaScript or Basic, HTML5 and css.

Without further ado, here are our winners: (full results are here)

Continue reading “Contest 2014 Results!”

AppStudio 4.1.5 has been released. It includes a few bug fixes.

1. Controls: AdSense – now gets added to project properly.
2. Controls: Add Zoom capability to iScroll.
3. Samples: Update ListWithScrolling sample.

AppStudio 4.1.4 has been released. It includes a number of updates and bug fixes.

1. Controls: TextBox – bottom property fixed.
2. Controls: TextBox – Fix warning message from Safari.
3. Deploy: Add new iOS splashscreen names to default configxml.
4. IDE: Language files appear again.
5. IDE: Language files updated.
6. IDE: Now built with Python 2.7.8
7. Runtime: iScroll updated to 5.1.2
8. Runtime: jQuery Mobile updated to 1.4.3
9. Runtime: PlaySound changed to work with older browsers
10. Translator: Bug in InStr() fixed.
11. Translator: Select Case and Dims function properly.

AppStudio 4.1.3 has been released. It includes a number of updates and bug fixes.

A new feature is support for Notifications using Pushwoosh. Check out the Tech Note here:
http://wiki.nsbasic.com/Using_the_PhoneGap_API:_Pushwoosh

1. Code Window: False negative syntax error on Style keyword fixed.
2. Controls: Audio and Video now have file pickers.
3. Controls: jQM Checkbox now ignores FastClick.
4. Deploy: Now uses FastClick 1.0.2.
5. Deploy: Prefix on apps deployed to nsbapp.com changed.
6. Deploy: Signing certificate updated.
7. IDE: Updated to Python 2.7.7
8. Runtime: Order of hiddenfiles and extraheaders reversed.
9. Samples: New Pushwoosh sample shows how to use notifications
10. Translator: Improvements to Mod operator.

We had a few developers ask for more time to perfect their apps. No problem, we said: the deadline has been extended by two weeks, till Jun 23, 2014.

If you have already submitted your app, feel free to use the extra time to make it even better and resubmit.

Full details on this year’s contest are here.

AppStudio 4.1.2 has been released. The major change is that deploy can now by done by both FTP and SFTP: there is a new setting in Preferences.

SFTP is a new protocol than FTP and has improved security. You’ll notice it also uploads your project more quickly. It is now used when you deploy to nsbapp.com by default.

1. About: Now shows license type.
2. Controls: CheckBox and RadioButton no longer display over other controls.
3. Deploy: iOS splash screens for all screen sizes supported.
4. Deploy: Port number can now be specified in Preferences.
5. Deploy: SFTP now supported
6. Runtime: Message shows if Cookies are disabled.
7. Runtime: Message shows if JavaScript disabled.
8. Samples: New splash sample shows how to do different iOS spash screen sizes.
9. Translator: ChangeForm(EvaluationForm) fixed.
10. Translator: Fixes to Mod operator.