Last weekend our conference train got rolling again. A group of twelve synyx guys and gals boarded the ICE to our capital, heading for the Berlin Expert Days, a nice…

I am a fresh employee at synyx. I started early in 2013 to work for the company and the Devoxx 2013 in Antwerp was my first conference with my new colleagues.…

Dieses Jahr hatte unsere Mobile Developer Reisegruppe das Glück die MDC 2012 quasi vor der Haustüre, nämlich in Stuttgart, vorzufinden. Das machte den Besuch natürlich noch viel reizvoller. Darüber hinaus…

Für die erfolgreiche Genehmigung von Urlaub muss der synyx’sche Mitarbeiter sich bisher mit einem Stück Papier alias ‘schriftlich ausgefüllter Urlaubsantrag’ bewaffnen und sich an einen der drei Chefs anpirschen, um…

It has been a while since our 1.0 release of I think I spider, but we have been working hard on a new major release with a couple of great…

One of the most impressive talks for me at WWDC 2010 was session 306 – “Automating Use Interface Testing with Instruments”. I’ve been wanting to check it out ever since…

On Wednesday, I’ll be giving a presentation on Apple’s Game Center at the local CocoaHeads Group, here in Karlsruhe. Game Center is Apple’s social gaming network, that lets you invite…

When you enable Apple Push Notifications (APN) for your App, your device generates a unique device token and pass it to the didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken method in your App delegate. Usually, you’ll…

Today we are proud to present our own very first App (it’s actually our second Android App) that made it to the App Store and Android Market – I think…

It has been a while since my last update on our efforts over at the mobile solutions blog. The most important announcement was without any doubt the imminent release of…

If you add a store to your app and use In App Purchases to collect your payments, there are a couple of limitations your have to live with. One of…

Wie passt das alles zusammen? Ganz einfach … “Holla the woodfairy – holla die Waldfee”. Was haben wir gelacht über diese und noch viele weitere “Übersetzungen” auf der Website “I…

We improved our “I think I spider” App quite a bit since Beta 1. Among other stuff we added some nice sound effects. If you want to check it out,…

Our little pet project “I think I spider” is almost ready to be thrown out into the wild! That means we are running a closed beta for iOS devices for…

If you need to send apple push notifications to your users, like we do in a secret project mentioned earlier this week, notnoop’s java-apns library is a good choice, because…

There’s a lot going on over at the mobile solutions blog, so in case you are not subscribed to our feed, which I hope you are, you can grab it…

Before flying off to WWDC last month, I watched a whole bunch of sessions from 2009. Among others a session on “Prototyping iPhone User Interfaces” by Bret Victor. If you…

In my last summary I forgot to mention, that I will be at WWDC this year. Now WWDC is over, I just got back and if you want to know…

I’m going to Apple’s WWDC this year and I’m pretty excited to fully dive into iPhone development for the whole next week. That it takes place in San Francisco is…

When you submit an App to the Apple App Store it has to go through a “rigorous quality check”, conducted by Apple. Although there are plenty of resources out there,…