Now you can learn Swedish-- We've released Swedish Bubble Bath Yesterday, we released Swedish Bubble Bath to Google Play. If you enjoy the other Bubble Bath games and would like to learn some Swedish, this is the game for you. Special thanks to Rickard Langnesund for the awesome vocals. You …
Android Studio Takes Things Up a Notch
Finally, a proper IDE with Android Studio Last year, I blogged about how much better JetBrain's IntelliJ IDE was than Eclipse for Android development--especially for the Visual Studio developer. The keyboard shortcuts are more consistent and setup is a lot easier. However, I never got the i …
A Day Without Android
My Samsung Galaxy S3 started freezing up a few times a day. It's called sudden death syndrome. A factory reset didn't help, so I brought it to the Three store to be repaired. It would take 10 business days, they said. I had a backup phone that I use for app testing, so I transferred everything to …
Have a blog? You need Google Authorship
Google Authorship -- so we can see our awful pictures on Google I was curious as to how some people have their profile pictures next to their articles on Google. I know it seems stupid, but the articles with photos next to them seem more authoritative than those that don't. The reality, of c …
The Big Decision: Phonegap vs Native
Phonegap vs Native, I've pondered this a lot When I first started app development, I was not sure whether to go with Phonegap, Mono (since I do a lot of C# development), or Native coding. I dropped Mono early on. It is expensive and seems to rely on the inability of people to learn new …
Learn Swahili with Secret Agent: Swahili – Great Review
Want to learn Swahili? Well check this out . . . This weekend, we got a fantastic review from Kelly who using "Secret Agent: Swahili". Fun Swahili Vocab. Review Great for reviewing vocabulary, fun, engaging and helps learn you learn Swahili. I would recommend for use with a boring text book. …
Overpass in China
I read a fantastic Tech Crunch article last month on the rise of the Chinese App market. The takeaway from the article was that, although in the western world we only have Google Play and Amazon, the Android market in China is heavily fragmented. I speak Chinese (having learned it in the US …
Tweet For Ear Assist!
So, we've been working on ways to get the word out about the apps. Ear Spy gets well over a thousand new users every day, but there is no internet buzz about it. I'm terrible about emailing bloggers and begging them to mention my apps. I've read all the books and know this is how it is done, but I …
French Bubble Bath and iTunes
I've recently written about my problems lately with the iTunes market rejecting some of my apps because they accuse them of being "spammy". I tried to submit all of the Secret Agent language games and had them all come back rejected. French Bubble Bath and French Bubble Bath Lite (the free …
Nine Years of Overpass
My LinkedIn profile tells me that yesterday was my 9-year anniversary with Overpass. I can't believe it's been this long. When I started Overpass, I wanted to create a company where I could work developers from all over the world. Offshoring was only just becoming a big buzz word in 2003. As a …
