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
Q Manning, one time Hollywood movie director and now the founder of app creation company Rocksauce tells Tom May about the daily joy of creating fine apps in Austin, Texas
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
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
This month we present the ultimate freelance web design tools you need to manage your work and money. We cover planning, graphic design, copywriting as well as coding, testing and accounting
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
Creating an application can be extremely exciting for any developer but before you get your application published, you need to get it ready. iOS and Mac developer/designer Daniel Bramhall explains how
Gimme Bar enables you to save bits of the web instead of just bookmarking them. Founder Cameron Koczon tells Tanya Combrinck about the importance of owning the content you’ve collected
In this excerpt from the PhoneGap Beginner's Guide, Nitobi/Adobe's Andrew Lunny goes over the biggest roadblock developers find with the mobile development framework: getting started and building simple apps for iOS, Android and BlackBerry
Mobile application consultant Jonathan Stark, author of two iPhone and Android development books, explains his process for determining the best development approach for an app and discusses the best tools available right now