Fast Company has announced a contest to develop apps for Target. The winner stands to make $75,000, and gets a chance to work with one of the leading innovators in the retail space. Seven finalists will also be awarded $10,000 each to turn their proposal into a prototype. Continue reading “Use AppStudio to win $75,000!”
FastClick makes your apps feel faster and snappier when run on mobile devices. Normally, when you click on a button (or other control) there is a 300-500ms delay before the _onclick() function in your program is executed. That’s not enough for most people to explicitly notice, but enough to make the app feel sluggish. Until now, the solution was to also have a _ontouch() function, which makes things more complex. FastClick calls your _onclick() function as soon as the user touches the screen.
The beta testers, with one exception, report that their apps work without any changes. If you do run into issues, let us know. There is a way to turn off this feature.
We have just uploaded 3.0.6 to the servers. It has a number of minor enhancements as well as bug fixes.
The download URL is the same as for 3.0.
3.0.6
Deploy: Preferences can now be set for individual projects. This is done in the Preferences screen: prefs can be set for the Global Location (all projects) or Project Location (the current project).
IDE: (Mac) Environment error fixed.
IDE: Shortcuts on menus should be fixed in French and other languages.
IDE: Unicode problem with browser start fixed.
Runtime: Fixed problem with form not restoring properly after keyboard shown.
Samples: Add new features to jqWidgets Grid
Toolbox: Always load iScroll if EULA is enabled.
Toolbox: jQuery Mobile TextArea no longer resizes if text does not fit.
Toolbox: New ToolTip control (Thanks, Erkan Kaplan!)
One of the new features of AppStudio 3.0 is that the IDE will appear in the home language of most users. On startup, it looks at the system default language, then loads the appropriate language table. Here’s how it looks in German, Korean and Chinese:
Montreal, Feb 11, 2013 – Steve Wozniak, originator of the first BASIC for Apple computers, and George Henne, the originator of the latest. Mr. Henne’s daughter is in the middle.
One of the big features of AppStudio 3 is that it runs natively on Mac OS. It’s the complete product: every feature, field and screen in our Windows edition is present in Mac OS. It runs great.
Projects developed using AppStudio for Windows are completely compatible with the Mac OS version – nothing needs to be done to move to Mac. An AppStudio 3 license gives you both the Mac OS and Windows editions, so there is no need to buy an additional copy.
AppStudio is a complete, easy to use development environment which creates apps for iPhone and Android devices. Using BASIC or JavaScript as a programming language, users can quickly develop apps using the built in Visual Designer. Apps can be deployed to the web or to app stores using PhoneGap.
This isn’t the company’s first product for Apple devices. In 1993, it got its start with the release of the NS Basic for Newton, as well as NewtCard, a Hypercard like product.
AppStudio is used in teaching, government and enterprise, small business and by independent developers. Close to 20,000 developers in over 80 countries use NS Basic’s mobile development tools.
Requires Mac OS 10.7 (Snow Leopard) or later. (Mac OS 10.6 on 64 bit processors also works)
It’s time to retire some old products. NS Basic/Palm was for devices last produced in 2007. Windows Mobile ended in 2010, rendering NS Basic/CE obsolete. NS Basic/Desktop has had similarly low demand in the past few years.
It has also gotten harder for us to provide support. The tools we used to create these products have been discontinued by their developers and will not run on modern equipment. Our own recollection of the details of the products has also been fading, making it difficult to deliver great support.
It has been a good run for these products. NS Basic/Palm lasted 12 years, NS Basic/CE 15. That’s extraordinary for software. Good bye – it’s been great!
