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What is Xamarin?
Maybe I should start with a better question. Who doesn’t love free stuff? Guess what? Xamarin is F-R-E-E!!!! Yep! I’ll explain why this is...
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Mobile Development
The Cloud
The Value of Android, iOS, and React to the Cloud
As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, Metal Toad helps our clients identify their cloud solutions. However, one question I frequently hear is, “If...
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Thumb Zone
I’m used to thinking of ergonomics in terms of chairs, desks, physical plant, tennis rackets, etc., but this week our expert UX designer, Cami, blew...
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An Exploration of Daydream Using the Android SDK
Going into the latest hackathon, I knew there were several options for building a virtual reality (VR) app for Android devices.
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6 Design Tips for iOS and Android
Recently I've been designing a few mobile apps. The first app was designed from scratch for both iOS and Android.
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How a Toad Writes a Blog Post
“Don't procrastinate. If you want to blog, then blog.” - Fritz Chery
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Brand Strategy Planning Tips for a New Year
3 Fundamental Underpinnings for Successful Brand Planning
Apple/iOS
iOS: Retain Your Sanity With CoreSimulator Folders
Previously, we published a script to work around the opaque iOS Simulator folder structure on Xcode 6.
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Force Touch for Safari in Javascript
First I explored Force Click on the Mac. Now it is on the web with javascript in Safari.
Apple/iOS
iOS: A Quick Script to Retain Your Sanity With CoreSimulator Folders.
Note: This is outdated. See our update for Xcode 7
Apple/iOS
Integrating Faux Pas into your iOS Continuous Integration Workflow
Faux Pas is a OS X app that analyzes your source code for possible bugs and stylistic issues (among many, many other things).
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Continuous Delivery for Enterprise on iOS
In part two (part one) of a series on iOS automation, we'll discuss continuous deployment.
Apple/iOS
Short-circuiting SpriteBuilder to use Cocos2d-swift Programmatically
The goal is to create a project with SpriteBuilder and then not use the nice GUI and ccb files that it
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iOS Continous Integration for Enterprise
Updated Oct 19, 2015: Added updates for OS X El Capitan. Updates highlighted in yellow.
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PhoneGap Day! Michael Brooks on Contributing to Apache Cordova
Michael Brooks, @mwbrooks Open Source Designers are needed. Tech writers are really, really needed.
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Phonegap Day! Pamela Fox on Phonegap Pain Points
Pamela Fox - @pamelafox She used to work for google, was on the Wave project.
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Phonegap Day! Fil Maj on what's new in PhoneGap 2.0
We have two toads at PhoneGap Day here in Portland - you can follow the conference on Twitter #pgday. I'll be live blogging the event.
The Cloud
PhoneGap Day! Andrew Lunny and Hardeep Shoker on Phonegap Build
Andrew Lunny @alunny & Hardeep Shoker @hardeepshoker
Drupal
Mobile Drupal optimization results
Our responsive redesign has been a great improvement for metaltoad.com. I was still not entirely satisfied with the speed of our site, especially...
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A Short List of Handy Web/Mobile Debugging Tools
I recently helped a friend with a couple bugs they were fixing on a mobile site, and suddenly realized that there is a good basic list of tools that...
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A Simple Device Diagram for Responsive Design Planning
Updated for 2015! Check out Analytics-driven responsive web design planning
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Improved Lazy Loading for iPhone & Android
The latest version of the jQuery Lazy Load plu
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When it comes to Mobile Development, Stop Worrying about Bandwidth
When it comes to mobile development, I've seen a lot of buzz recently on how CSS3 can help people eliminate images and cut the bandwidth requirement...
AWS
Pitfalls When Writing a Canvas Game for Android
Recently a client approached Metal Toad to develop a prototype game for Android devices and leaving the option of porting it to other devices open.