andy drizen
A London-based native iOS app specialist
Samsung Hope Relay
DATE: | 14th May 2012 |
TAGS: | API APNS Core Animation Core Graphics Core Location Core Media Core Text Custom Navigation UI Git iPhone JSON Localisation MessageUI NSURLConnection Reachability ShareKit Test Flight |
DESCRIPTION: | On your marks, get set, take part.
Take part in the Samsung Hope Relay and you might just see your very own avatar used in Samsung ads. All you need to do is simply download the app, create your avatar and start logging your miles - it couldn't be easier. To help raise money for charities, such as Kids Company and International Inspiration, Samsung will be donating one pound for every mile run. So, it's time to get running! |
WEBSITE: | http://www.samsung.com/uk/london2012/samsung-hope-relay/ |
Curatr for iPad
DATE: | 1st March 2012 |
TAGS: | API ASIHTTPRequest CATiledLayer CMS Core Animation Core Data Core Graphics Custom Navigation UI iPad JSON MessageUI Reachability Test Flight |
DESCRIPTION: | Curatr is the home of Rich, Active and Social eLearning. Use this iPad app to connect to your demo or classroom account, completely free of charge. The app includes all the features of the desktop environment allowing you to access your learning objects, curate your collections and interact with your classmates.
A replacement of the original universal app, this version is iPad only. |
WEBSITE: | http://www.curatr.co.uk |
babysign
DATE: | 17th September 2011 |
TAGS: | ASIHTTPRequest Core Media iPad iPhone JSON MessageUI |
DESCRIPTION: | This babysign app is designed to show you how to sign with your baby. This contains over 300 signs to enable you to communicate with your baby prior to speech.
Available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, we also have footage of our amazing babies using signs in everyday situations. The benefits of babysign are manifold so we will tell you just a few: *Communicate before your baby can talk using simple easy to learn signs *Enhance the bond between you and baby *Encourages earlier speech and increases spoken vocabulary *Can increase IQ by around 12 points *Gives your baby confidence! *An added bonus is that the signs are based on British Sign Language so not only will you be learning something fun you will also be learning a new language for yourself. We are sure you will be glad you are a babysigner! |
WEBSITE: | http://babysign.co.uk |
Duke CE GO!
DATE: | 3rd June 2011 |
TAGS: | API APNS ASIHTTPRequest Core Animation Core Location Custom Navigation UI iPad iPhone JSON |
DESCRIPTION: | Duke CE Go! is your everywhere access to the latest from Duke Corporate Education, a leading provider of customized education globally. There is free content updated regularly, plus access to specific program or learning community content for members.
At the intersection of business and education, Duke CE brings insight, innovation and impact! |
WEBSITE: | http://dukece.com |
Tube Tracker
DATE: | 31st May 2011 |
TAGS: | API ASIHTTPRequest CATiledLayer Core Animation Core Graphics Core Location CSS iPad iPhone Javascript jQuery JSON PHP Python Reachability Website |
DESCRIPTION: | App Store statistics:
A multi-platform live departures application for London Underground and DLR trains. Q. What advantages does your app have over other Tube apps? All of the apps on the App Store do not do anything more than either relay TfL's API data, scrape TfL's website or scrape the DLR Daisy website. Although these are the best sources of information, they only update (roughly) every 30 seconds, and the data is often incomplete or malformed. We have a server that collects all of the information from the API (i.e. every station prediction/summary) simultaneously, and the information from DLR Daisy. As the stations don't get updated at the same time, but contain redundant information, we are able to get fresh information every (roughly) 5 seconds by piecing all of the predictions together. We also do a lot of other stuff, like:
Innovative train details screen - shows each train's stops, including how many minutes to each station. Works on all versions (including first generations) of iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. No need to purchase separate versions! We also have a web version at TubeTracker.co.uk |
WEBSITE: | http://www.tubetracker.co.uk |
Latin Squares
DATE: | 16th April 2011 |
TAGS: | API ASIHTTPRequest C++ Git iPad iPhone JSON Reachability |
DESCRIPTION: | A Latin square is an (n x n) grid of cells. Each cell contains exactly one symbol from the set S = {1, 2, ..., n}. If you look down any column, or across any row of the Latin square, you'll see every symbol precisely once. If you've ever completed a Sudoku puzzle, then you've built a Latin square on the symbols {1, 2, ..., 9}.
This app provides comprehensive coverage of the field of Latin squares, including: * Theory, * Books, * Journal articles, * Unsolved Problems, * Notable Latin squares It also includes a random Latin square generator (using a Markov chain pioneered by Jacobson and Matthews' Markov chain in 1996). You can generate Latin squares for any order up to 11. Once you have generated a square, you can then find transversals that lie within it (if there are any). The app will be updated with new content as and when it appears in the community. It has been built as a universal iOS app, so it will look good on an iPhone, or an iPad. It also demonstrates a custom class that I built: the CUIHorizontalPickerView. Additionally, all of the content, and even the navigation structure, is read in via an API, so the app can be updated without having to pass through Apple's approval process. All of the source, which is Objective-C++, is available from my github page. |
SOURCE: | https://github.com/andydrizen/LatinSquares |
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Curatr
DATE: | 29th August 2010 |
TAGS: | API ASIHTTPRequest CMS Core Graphics Custom Navigation UI iPad iPhone NSXMLParser XML |
DESCRIPTION: | NOTE: This app has been replaced by "Curatr for iPad"
Curatr was made with the new generation of smart touch interfaces in mind When you are properly engaged in a Social Learning experience you need to get access to your community wherever you are; its why we made Mobile a key feature of Curatr from the start. For Apple devices, such as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, we have developed a specialist App which your users can download and install. The App presents users with a bespoke interface which is both intuitive and innovative. Our unique visualisation approach makes it easy to handle huge amounts of information, even on the small screen. For Android devices, Curatr works out-of-the-box. As Curatr is a Flash application, your phones (from version 2.2) are ready-made Learning Environments when coupled with Curatr. By allowing your users to Connect with their learning community on the move, you bring a whole new world of utility to your Learning. The app is somewhat updatable without resubmitting to Apple as the content is all retrieved from our API. |
WEBSITE: | http://www.curatr.co.uk |
Oddities
DATE: | 30th January 2010 |
TAGS: | ASIHTTPRequest Core Data iPhone |
DESCRIPTION: | This little app provides a way of creating a list of random articles from a selection of interesting websites, e.g. How Stuff Works, Snopes, Wikipedia. The articles are downloaded so they may be viewed offline at a later time (this is for Underground train entertainment).
Articles are deletable via the usual "swipe" gesture. |
Scrappy
DATE: | 6th January 2010 |
TAGS: | Core Data Core Location iPhone Reachability Twitter |
DESCRIPTION: | Although this iPhone application hasn't made it to the app store yet, it may do at some point in the future. I came up with this idea when I was on a cycling holiday on the Grand Union canal. I wanted to be able to take photos and save them with comments so that I remembered how I felt at the time. Also, I wanted to be able to tweet these pictures from the same interface, possibly telling people where I was.
Scrappy fulfills these aims and allows multiple scrapbooks too. As this was a personal project, it is at the back of the queue, but some day I'll finish it! |