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iOS Apps Roundup

September 7, 2016 / No Comments / Posted in: The Complete iOS Developer Course

We’ve seen quite a few iOS apps submitted in the last few weeks from students of the iOS Developer Course. It’s a shame we can’t feature them all. Check out a few of the apps we’ve managed to feature!

Daddy Alphabet

An easy and fdaddyalphabetun way to introduce alphabets to your toddler associating a letter of the alphabet with the sound of a parents voice in their own time. Parents can record 5 seconds of audio for an alphabet letter. Your child can then tap, swipe, and drag through the alphabet letters. It makes a lot of fun for the kids when they can view the alphabets, followed by an image of the word beginning with that alphabet and listen to the audio recorded by their parents.

Get Daddy Alphabet from the App Store.

 

Badger Bug

badgerbugDo you have a tendency to put boring or difficult things off? Taxes, repairs, calls to plumbers, veterinarians or distant family? The Badger Bug application will bug you to accomplish today what you were deferring until tomorrow! Enter or dictate the task you are constantly putting off, then press START. It will send to your phone, or your Apple Watch repeated reminders to get it done! The Friendly Badger has three different levels of intensity, and a lot of encouraging words for you. You can suspend the Badger if you are too busy or unable to complete the task due to physical or mental circumstances. Once you get back, just resume, and the Badger will report for duty. Get Badger Bug here.

 

Meet Score

meetscoreDesigned for Gymnast coaches MeetScore is a gymnastics meet tracker, which allows you to score both male and female gymnastics competitions. It provides options to post results to social media, email or text results to friends and family. MeetScore is iCloud enabled to ensure your data is backed up.

You can find out for about Meet Score and get it from the App Store with this link.

 

 

MemeTheVote

memethevoteWith the US elections on the horizon MemeTheVote is the easiest way to make the highest quality memes with your original ideas just in time for the election season. You can use your camera, Photo Library, or Yahoo search to find images. You can share to email, messaging apps, and any social network that your phone recognizes (including Facebook, Instagram, twitter, even Slack!) Copy your meme directly to Instagram and share from there.

Get MemeTheVote from here.

 

Electro Blast

ekectroblastA simple swipe game you experience the journey of an electron moving in a circuit. Jump between three wires and stay away from the obstacles heading towards you collecting batteries where you can!

Have a look the game trailer on Facebook.

Get Electro Blast here.

 

 

To Do Next

todonextTo Do Next is a no-frills to do list app that keeps you on top of your most urgent tasks. Countdown to due date is now live & conveniently shown along with each item. Tap on item to reveal specifics. Add new item by clicking on + icon. Swipe left to edit an existing item, delete an item or cross it off by marking it done.

List is sorted by the most urgent (nearest due date) on top or you can choose to sort by name first then due date. Check our To Do Next!

Tak
Sales and marketing executive.
3rd degree black belt in Taekwon-Do.
Lives at the gym.
Enjoys burgers and cake.
Likes fast cars and lie-ins.
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iOS9 App Roundup

May 23, 2016 / No Comments / Posted in: Apps, The Complete iOS Developer Course

Here’s another round up of some apps published by students of the iOS 9 Developer Course. If you have published an app let us know by email, Facebook or Twitter!

 

Pho Shizzle

For those who don’t know, Pho is a Vietnamese noodle dish. The app is designed as a one stop app which will display all venues which serves Pho near the user and provides the reviews from online sites like Yelp, Zomato and Google. So you have all the reviews at your finger tips and can decide where to eat! A must have app for all Pho lovers. You can get the app here.

 

 

 

DEA Check

Aimed to make life easier for pharmacy technicians in North America, the purpose of this app is to check that the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) number provided by a doctor is legitimate for prescriptions and not forgeries. Looks very easy to use! This app can be purchased from the App Store.

 

 

 

Bar Routlette

If you want to go out for a few drinks but are not sure where then this is the ideal app! Bar Roulette will choose a highly rated bar from ratings from sites like Uber, Yelp and Foursquare and present you with a destination. The author of the app claims that the app will work anywhere in the world where Uber, Yelp and Foursquare are available. So this app would be great to use in a new town or city. Check out Bar Roulette from the App Store.

 

 

Plan D - Daily planning. Reinvented

A daily planner which outlines your daily routines. You can quickly enter your jobs for the day and receive a reminder for when it is due.

You can get Daily Planner Reinvented from here.

 

 

 

 

Simple BP

If you take your blood pressure on a regular basis then this is a very useful app. Simple BP will allow you to track your systolic and diastolic measurements readings from over time. It not only logs the results but can present the results in graph format so you can have a glance of the historic results.

Get simple BP from the App Store here.

Tak
Sales and marketing executive.
3rd degree black belt in Taekwon-Do.
Lives at the gym.
Enjoys burgers and cake.
Likes fast cars and lie-ins.
http://www.ecowebhosting.co.uk

iOS App Roundup

February 25, 2016 / No Comments / Posted in: Apps, The Complete iOS Developer Course

Here’s another roundup of apps created using Xcode7 and Swift 2 with a bit of guidance from The Complete iOS9 Developer Course. It’s really great to see lots of apps submitted this month. The only down side is that I can only cover a small number of them. All apps here are available on the Apple App Store.

T Zee Bird

tzeebird

Could this be the new Flappy bird? It’s a top down game where you have a birds eye view (no pun intended) and you only have two directions where you move your bird either left or right to avoid formations of birds which comes from the other direction.

A very simple game which is enjoyable and addictive but best of all it’s FREE and available from the App Store.

 

 

Leaflets

leaflets

Leaflets is a very interesting social networking app with an interesting concept! You can post articles based on categories or interests like food or gaming. The interface is really clean and well designed. It’s going to be interesting to see how this app evolves as the user base increases.

Definitely worth taking a look.

 

 

Letter Grab

lettergrab

There’s quite a lot of word games available but what sets Letter Grab is a little different. The author describes it as “playing hangman… on an air hockey table… where letters avoid you, and often get in the way”.

So the app not only exercises the brain but tests your patience as well. You can have a look at Letter Grab from the App Store.

 

 

iCountHabits

iCountHabits

Do you want to keep track of the number of times you drink a glass of water a day? Or the number of pages you intend to read in a book? Maybe you intend to exercise daily and intend to perform a number of pushups or situps? If so this app is for you!

The app allows you to setup your habits and set a number for that habit where you can record the number of times you have engaged in that activity. Quite a useful app to track your goals or habits. Check it out here!

 

FMC

fmc

FMC or Find My Car is an app which allows the user to store certain locations which you can recall later. The intention is if you have to park your car in a place you’re not familiar with, you can use the app to save the location and navigate back there later on.

So quite useful if you in unfamiliar territory. FMC is available from the App Store.

 

 

 

If you have published an app you would like to share. Contact Rob by Twitter, Facebook or email.

Tak
Sales and marketing executive.
3rd degree black belt in Taekwon-Do.
Lives at the gym.
Enjoys burgers and cake.
Likes fast cars and lie-ins.
http://www.ecowebhosting.co.uk

Featured app of the month - Grubbie

January 25, 2016 / No Comments / Posted in: Apps, The Complete iOS Developer Course
GrubbieGrubbie is a restaurant/food review app with a simple twist of being able to attach audio to the photo and being able to share review data with other users. It makes use of the following tech:
- MapKit/Geo location
- Parse backend
- Audio recording/playback
- FourSquare API
- Facebook API
Grubbie was created by Julius Estrada and is available from the App store using the following link. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grubbie/id1062136882

Julius has decided to share his course experience and how he came up with the idea for his app.

Ever since I began my career in the software industry more than 15 years ago, I’ve been a developer on the Microsoft platform, having started out with Visual Fox Pro, followed by Visual Basic and finally .NET. I’ve had a modestly successful practice as a .NET developer, consultant and trainer but I realized that to keep up with the times in this fast-paced industry, I have to make the jump to mobile apps development. Besides, I’ve always enjoyed learning new technologies and mobile development is definitely one of the most exciting areas of technology today.

Being a self-taught programmer, I began by gorging on free tutorials on the Internet. There’s anabundance of free learning material out there but I soon realized that I have to start with something formal and structured, and not just learn a hodge-podge of techniques from different sources. A number of sites offer paid online training but I settled with Udemy because their business model of selling courses with lifetime access appealed to me.

I took Rob’s course The Complete iOS 8 Developer Course because it is one of the highest-rated courses on iOS development in Udemy. I have to admit that I generally take ratings with a grain of salt but the discounted rate at that time was simply too good to pass up, and minimized the risks.

As I was going through the course, I was impressed by Rob’s teaching methodology. He prods students to do the exercises on their own before he actually shows how it’s done. Every now and then, he would encourage students to come up with potential app ideas and pursue them. But what I like the most is how he shows how programming problems are usually solved in the real-world: by looking up on the Internet. In the truest sense, he is a teacher who teaches how to fish rather than just give fish.

It took me around 3 weeks to finish the course since I can only spend 2-3 hours a day because I still held on to my full-time job. I supplemented what I learned with online tutorials but things were easier to comprehend this time around because I already have a solid foundation. Armed with my new-found skills, I was ready to get my feet wet on professional iOS development which led to my first app published on the App Store: Grubbie.

Grubbie was conceived out of my traveling experiences to Southeast Asia. Whenever I went to a country that didn’t widely speak and write English, it was frequently a challenge to order what to eat especially if there are no photos on the menu. Sometimes, even photos can be inaccurate and prone to misinterpretation. And chances are I’ll forget the name of those dishes or the restaurant should I return after several months.

That’s when an idea popped up: Wouldn’t it be handy if there’s an app where you can keep a journal of the restaurants that you’ve been to, and the dishes that you ordered along with their pronunciations captured in an audio recording? When you return the next time around, the app will show where the restaurants are located, and you’ll know exactly which dishes to order. In case the photos fail to bridge the communication gap, the audio recording should surely resolve any ambiguities.

I started building Grubbie around that initial idea but then a legitimate use case came up: What if you had a friend who is about to visit the same place and asked for your recommendations? You could just direct your friend to your favorite social media account where you uploaded the photos (albeit sans the audio), but wouldn’t it be much convenient for both of you if you can just share the information via Grubbie itself? And so I had to expand the app to cover the Share feature. It took me around 6 weeks to write the code for the app, and a couple more weeks for non-code related tasks such as setting up the support site, writing content and preparing compliance stuff. Submitting the app and waiting for approval from Apple was an unsettling experience, especially after reading articles why apps get rejected by the Apple review team. It’s like waiting for a baby to be born, hoping that mother and child would pull through.

It would be an understatement to say that I was exhilarated to receive the confirmation email from Apple that Grubbie had been approved for publishing to the App Store. My efforts paid off and although Grubbie won’t make me money because it’s free, the thought of having developed something useful and have it pushed to the App Store is sufficient reward for me.

Regardless of how Grubbie will be received by the market, I will continue to improve it, simply because I find it truly useful. The Share feature is just the start of giving Grubbie its social dimension; for one thing, I’d like users to be able to ask for recommendations proactively, rather than just accept shares passively. Offline caching is also something I’m really keen on. Currently, Grubbie won’t work without network connectivity to the Cloud database. And should there be a clamor for an Android version, then why not? - Julius Estrada

Great job Julius! Although Julius took the iOS8 Developer Course there is now an updated iOS9 Developer course available.

Tak
Sales and marketing executive.
3rd degree black belt in Taekwon-Do.
Lives at the gym.
Enjoys burgers and cake.
Likes fast cars and lie-ins.
http://www.ecowebhosting.co.uk

App Roundup

December 14, 2015 / No Comments / Posted in: Apps, The Complete iOS Developer Course

Its always a pleasure to hear about apps students have published. Sometimes our students create apps for a bit of fun and sometimes it’s to make a bit of money on the side. Here are some pretty popular app ideas from each of the app developer courses namely the iOS9 Developer Course, Apple Watch Developer Course and Android Developer Course.

So check them out from their respective stores!

One More Pun

One more punPlatform: iOS8 & iOS9
Author: Nicholas Laughter
Price: FREE
Apple Store Link

A bit of fun and a very simple app which randomises a collection of hundreds of humorous puns. If anyone one is unaware a pun is a play on words which suggests two or more meanings. This app is aimed at putting a smile on your face.

 

PopPic

PoppikPlatform: Apple WatchOS & WatchOS2
Author: Lisa Marion
Price: $0.99
Apple Store Link

This app allows the the user to make the default Apple Watch face a little bit more personal and exciting! PopPik is a Picture Viewing App for the Apple Watch allowing you to customise the the screen on the Apple Watch.

 

The One Rep Max Calculator

One rep max

Platform: Android
Author: Iain Cole
Price: FREE
Play Store Link

If you lift weights then this will be a useful app! In weight lifting a one rep max is the maximum weight which can be lifted (like the name suggests). The app calculates the maximum you should be able to lift based on calculations of the number of repetitions from the exercises of higher repetition sets.

 

If you’ve published an app we would love to hear about it. So let us know!

Tak
Sales and marketing executive.
3rd degree black belt in Taekwon-Do.
Lives at the gym.
Enjoys burgers and cake.
Likes fast cars and lie-ins.
http://www.ecowebhosting.co.uk
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