WhatsApp is one of the hottest new apps this year. It lets you send messages to other WhatApp users via the net. It has over 500 million active users, with 700 million messages sent each day.
WhatsApp has an API, so you can hook it into your AppStudio app. It has two functions: open the WhatsApp app from your AppStudio App, and send a message to WhatsApp.
Here’s how our test app looks:
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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)
AppStudio 4.1.5 has been released. It includes a few bug fixes.
AppStudio 4.1.4 has been released. It includes a number of updates and bug fixes.
We’ve recently made some changes to how splash screens are handled, to catch up with changes to iOS and PhoneGap. Where it was once one-size-fits-all, you now need to supply all the different sizes.
Here’s how:
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The Pushwoosh API lets you send notifications from your computer to your app running on the device. While your app is running, if a notification is received, a function in your app will be called with the contents of the notification. It can then take whatever action needed based on the incoming data.
Notifications are a way to send and receive messages from your device. They have the ability to be broadcast to large numbers of devices. For Android, Google Cloud Messaging is used. For iOS, it uses the Apple Push Notification Service.
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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
The question came up on the web board: Can I split my AppStudio app into more than one program, and have the parts call each other? Sounds like a good topic for a blog post!
The answer is yes. The benefits are simplification and splitting large apps into smaller ones. You can even share data. Here are the details:
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It’s easy to make a native Android app with AppStudio and PhoneGap Build. However, since it is a native app, you cannot use the Chrome Debugger in the same way as you would with a Web App. Here are a couple of tips how to do it:
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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.
