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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.

AppStudio 4.1.1 has been released. It has a number of fixes:

1. Code Window: Fix problem with Style/Style End
2. Controls: HeaderBar icons can be set to ‘none’.
3. Controls: PictureBox’s hidden property set on start.
4. Controls: RadialGauge style property works now.
5. Deploy: Mime types fixed so IE can run localServer.
6. Deploy: Put files into the correct place in OfflineApp.manifest
7. Deploy: Sound files are now give the correct name on deploy.
8. Design Screen: Japanese characters were crashing app.
9. Documentation: Local and Wiki files updated.
10. IDE: External files are read in as unicode.
11. IDE: Problem starting first time on a Mac fixed.
12. IDE: Unicode problem on AppStudio startup
13. Project Explorer: Drag and drop an image fixed.
14. Samples: Update Ajax sample to work with PhoneGap Build.
15. Translation: All language files updated.

AppStudio 4.1 has just been released. It has two important changes:

1. PhoneGap’s new authorization scheme is now supported. If you are using the default account, you do not need do anything other than install the new release. After May 15th, releases before 4.1 may not work. If you have your own PhoneGap account, read this:
   http://wiki.nsbasic.com/PhoneGap_AuthToken

2. “Run in Desktop Browser” now uses localhost. Certain features only work when the app is actually deployed. AppStudio now sets up a localhost so these features work even when running on your local machine. There should be no change to your work flow. Everything should work as before, except you no longer need to deploy to nsbapp or to your own server.

AppStudio 4.1 is free for all existing AppStudio 4 users. If you have an older version, you can order it from our order page.

Our fourth NSB/AppStudio Programming Contest is underway. We’re looking forward to cool entries which take advantage of the capabilities of devices and AppStudio.

We have four categories:

• Business
• Fun – Sports, Games, Personal interest – anything!
• Education – Assignments, Lesson Plans or administrative tools
• Showcase – Screenshots of your app

All registered AppStudio users are welcome to participate. Prizes are $100 USD in each category, with the exception of Showcase.

Continue reading “The 2014 Programming Contest is on!”

AppStudio 4.0.5 has been released. It has a number of nice new features:

• Scrolling forms!
• AddToHome works on current Android devices too.
• 70% reduction in SQLite files being deployed

Enhancements and Fixes
Continue reading “AppStudio 4.0.5 released!”