A well-crafted icon can go a long way towards getting an app noticed. James Parker explains how to use Fireworks to create a design that’ll have an instant impact
Got an idea for a killer app but don’t know where to begin? Daniel Bramhall of Visioa explains everything you need to know to start programming for Apple devices
Explore the location-based services provided by the iOS Core Location framework in Kevin McMahon's guide to building and testing a geofencing-enabled application
Martha Rotter, freelance web developer and co-founder of Idea magazine, explains how you can make your content portable but discovers quite a few accessibility issues with digital magazines
PhoneGap enables you to write apps for an array of mobile platforms using standard web languages. Its top evangelist, Brian LeRoux, chats to Tom May about the framework’s evolution, and how it’s sowing the seeds of its own destruction
Tablets are just toys on which to consume content, right? Wrong, says Andy Hawthorne. With a few carefully selected apps, your iPad can enable you to create on the move
Designer and developer Christopher Schmitt examines the problem of adaptive images and looks at issues such as screen resolution and Retina displays, bandwidth and browser width
Craig Grannell quizzes leading experts to offer advice on designing and developing for Apple’s new iPad, how to deal with the Retina display and media queries, do UX testing and more
Stephen Woods, frontend engineer at Flickr, explains how to create a simple lightbox with gesture support and provides tips for improving the perceived as well as the actual performance of touch interfaces
If you’re regularly on the move, modern mobile apps enable you to do real work rather than twiddle your thumbs on a train. We unearth the top 20 apps for those in the industry
To celebrate the launch of iOS 5 Newsstand, we're giving away a free copy of our September issue (#219) for a limited time only. Read on to find out how!