Three useful UIWebView tweaks

Written by Luzian Scherrer on 20 January 2012.

It is a well known fact among iOS developers that creating screens with complicated formatted text is a hassle. UILabel, UITextView, and friends are not really designed for that purpose. The alternative that is often used to overcome those limitations is the versatile UIWebView combined with some local HTML content and CSS styling.

But the UIWebView itself comes with strings attached. In this post we are going to share three small tips that might help in making the UIWebView look more integrated with the rest of your UI.

How to create a shared and extendable menu on Android

Written by Luzian Scherrer on 04 January 2012.

Menus are a nice and important human user interface element on Android. They are nice because they add options without adding clutter to the small mobile screen and they are important because they are of great help for users that rely on accessibility.

There is some handy documentation on the Android Developer Website about how to create a menu for one single activity but in the real world the situation is a bit more complex. Larger apps can span dozens of activites and most of the time you want to have different individual menu items on each of those as well as global menu items that are available on all activites. Common examples for global menu items are the "About", "FAQ" or "Support" buttons that you find in apps quite often.

New website launched

Written by Luzian Scherrer on 01 January 2012.

After long and hard work, we are excited to start the new year with the launch of our brand new website. It has been completely redesigned from the ground up and we really hope that you are going to like it.

It is and it will always be a work in progress of course. Our intention is to keep you informed about what is going on at Neoos throughout the year. So please stay tuned for more and come back soon!

And don't forget to let us know what you think it the comments...

Happy New Year and all the best for 2012!

Quickpick pulled from App Store: Our Statement

Written by Mark Schmid on 20 December 2011.

Neoos' official statement regarding Apple's removal of our app Quickpick - The Universal iOS Launcher!

Today around 5:30PM CET, Apple called our head office to let us know they have pulled our app Quickpick from all its App Stores world wide. The Apple representative stated that it was because the app made inappropriate use of the Notification Center which was essentially resulting in non-compliance with Apple's HIG (human interface guidelines). Apple's suggested solution for a possible successful resubmit of Quickpick is to strip the notification parts from the app which would leave it with simple launcher functionality.

Quickpick is available now!

Written by Luzian Scherrer on 16 December 2011.

Our latest app Quickpick is available in the App Store. Check it out, it's a pretty cool concept.

You'll find the full description of what it can do in the App Store. The online documentation is available too. We're still working on the product website though...