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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:
All registered AppStudio users are welcome to participate. Prizes are $100 USD in each category, with the exception of Showcase.
AppStudio 4.0.5 has been released. It has a number of nice new features:
Enhancements and Fixes
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BASIC is 50 years old today. The language has introduced millions of people to programming and is an important language for education and business.
The charm of BASIC, which it still very much has, is that it is easy to just start working and get results. There are very few concepts that need to be mastered before writing your first program, and the learning process to become an expert is a smooth and gradual one. It is a reliable way to get good results, whether you are teaching it or getting an application done.
I’ve hung out with some of the creators of famous BASICs: Tom Kurtz, Steve Wozniak and others. I have had the good luck to work on successful implementations of BASIC for Newton, Windows CE, Palm OS and now iOS, Android and Window Phone.
It’s been great to be able to keep the core of the language intact, while adding features to make it work well with the modern technologies of the web and mobile devices. It’s more powerful than ever and still easy to use.
Here are a few great articles for BASIC’s birthday:
AppStudio 4.0.4 has been released.
Nothing major in this one, but a number of useful enhancements and fixes. In particular, we think we have a solution for the double click problem caused by iScroll 5.
AppStudio 4.0.3 has been released.
The cool new thing this time is a Camera control – making it much easier (and prettier!) to add a picture taking feature to your app.
AppStudio 4.0.2 has been released.
There are cool new controls for YouTube and Google Maps, plus some fixes.
AppStudio 4.0.1 has been released.
There are a number of improvements to make a programmer’s life easier, plus some fixes.
It’s not just AppStudio which got a makeover in Version 4. The default framework is now jQuery 1.4, which has had its own appearance updated.
After iOS 7 introduced its new look and feel, it was soon apparent which apps were paying attention and updated their own appearance. Apps which have not done so look old and tired. To stay competitive, apps need to updated.
Upgrading from jQuery Mobile 1.3 to 1.4 will give you that updated look.
Continue reading “jQuery Mobile 1.4: A new look and feel!”
Upgrading to AppStudio 4.0 should be straightforward. Here’s the information you need.
Ordering the Upgrade
Some technical stuff you should know
We’re pleased to announce that AppStudio 4.0 has been released.
There’s a lot of new stuff in it, but the first thing you notice is the whole new look and feel.
The old design looked like something from the last century, when a design by programmers was good enough. It worked, wasn’t pretty and was cluttered.
Software design these days has been strongly influenced by mobile devices. Nothing is put on the screen unless it needs to be. Colors are flat and harmonious, fonts are sans-serif. We enlisted Tomo Arakawa, a software designer and professional architect, to come up with a new design.
The comments so far have overwhelmingly positive:
but also, inevitably, one comment of “Go back to the original it was far better.”