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Monday App Recommendation: Triposo
App: Triposo Price: FREE Category: Travel Why we like it: Allows you to download detailed tourist guides that you can access without interent connection. After using this app in Munich my Lonely Planet...
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Barcamp: this is a placeholder
A few weeks ago I promised Kevin from TechYizu that I'd do a talk at Shanghai Barcamp. "What will the talk be about?" he asked me. "Just put a placeholder in the list of talks for me", I replied. I got...
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How to add a custom dock icon to Xcode to distinguish multiple versions
If you're an iOS developer you may be running multiple versions of Xcode on your development machine, for example Xcode 4.4 and Xcode 4.5. Since these have the same dock icon, it can be easy to get...
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Happy 3rd Birthday Jumpy! Download Pig Rush for FREE
In September 2009 we launched the very first version of Pig Rush for iPhone. Now, three years later, MILLIONS of you are playing Pig Rush on iPhone, iPad, Android, Facebook and Mac! To celebrate our...
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Trends in casual gaming: my takeaways from Casual Connect Kyiv 2012
I've spent the last three days in Kyiv, Ukraine attending Casual Connect Kyiv 2012. Besides presenting on controls in touchscreen games, I met a lot of great people from the Ukrainian and Russian game...
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Women in Tech: 60% female employees.
Ok, so ReignDesign is a successful mobile development company in China. Lately we have 60% female employees. Yep, we're a tech company. Come over to Facebook and like ReignDesign, if you like this,...
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Which country has the most expensive iPhone apps, relative to the price of a...
Apple now provides local currency billing for the App Store for 24 countries and territories around the world. That means that an app priced at 0.99 USD in the United States is priced at varying...
View ArticleVideo: Matt on designing controls for touchscreen games
The video from my talk at Casual Connect Kiev titled: Touch me! The Art of Making Mobile Games "Feel" Good is now online. View the video below: You can also read my wrap-up blog post from Casual Connect.
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Introducing Biblegram by Bible Promises : share your moments
ReignDesign is pleased to announce the release of our latest app, Biblegram! If you already use our popular app "Bible Promises" you'll love using Biblegram. Biblegram is like Instagram - but with a...
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Movember Matt
The eleventh month of the year, formerly known as November, is now Movember at ReignDesign! I've been growing out my facial hair to help raise awareness of men's health, particularly prostate and...
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Sharing images to Weixin/WeChat from an iOS app
Weixin (微信) is Tencent's mobile messaging product. It's highly popular in China, with hundreds of millions of users, as well as many international users who may know it by its English name WeChat. It...
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How to launch Google Maps or Apple Maps from an iOS app
Today Google announced their much-anticipated Google Maps app for iOS. They also plan to make available a Google Maps SDK for iOS allowing iOS developers to integrate Google Maps in their apps, however...
View ArticleReignDesign’s most popular blog posts of 2012
ReignDesign had a fun and exciting year! We released some apps, visited conferences and contemplated new technology! Here's a Top Ten List of our biggest moments. 1. Oooohh, look at the pretty...
View ArticleHow to send us crash reports from an iOS app
At ReignDesign, we always test our apps thoroughly before releasing them. But we're human, and occasionally apps can crash because of a combination of circumstances we didn't consider. If one of our...
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App Recommendation: Figure
App: Figure Price: $0.99 Category: Music Why we like it: Figure is a simple enjoyable way to create electronic music. No need for knowledge, no need for solfège. The app is designed for the mobile user...
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ReignDesign January 2013 Playlist
Music is sometimes really helpful for getting lost in your work, and at Reign you see a lot of headphones and tapping feet in a otherwise quiet office. Ever wondered what kind of music your coworkers...
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Controlling a 10-bit Digital Potentiometer via SPI with Arduino
1. A brief introduction to the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) The Serial Peripheral Interface a.k.a SPI or four-wire serial interface is a full-duplex serial data protocol used by microcontrollers...
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Debugging retain cycles in Objective-C: four likely culprits
Your iPhone app seems to be working fine. But suddenly, it starts to run slow and crashes! You suspect it's memory-related. Here's how to track down and fix issues with retain cycles, which can cause...
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ReignDesign’s Map of Shanghai
Last month, visiting graphic designer Anja Riese created a colorful and abstract map of Shanghai. It was her love for the city that inspired her to create this map. "I really like that the team of...
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Doing It With Twins: the Twin Prime Conjecture
The Grub & Groove pub in Shanghai hosts a series of talks on Tuesday evenings called The Thinkery. Under the slogan of ‘everything is interesting’, they invite people to give a talk on the topic of...
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