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One incredibly effective use of a Facebook hosted brand page is to incentivise people to like the page by creating some secret members-only content; commonly referred to as a "fan gate". Facebook has also partnered with Heroku - a cloud hosting company - which means you can create your own basic Facebook app, and host it for free, on a secure server. Read on as I make a basic Facebook fan-gate page tab app, hosted for free, on Heroku.
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The Web circa 2013 is a very visual place. Websites with glorious imagery abound, whether it's photo blogs like The Big Picture and friends, or sites like Pinterest that lets users create a visual archive of stuff they like. Then there are all the mobile apps we carry around in our pockets, be they Android or iOS. These have to look pretty too, from icons to screen layouts. If you're interested in the professional side of this aesthetic explosion, you should check out Dribbble.
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Did you get an Android smartphone for Christmas? You can bet that the number of Android phones sold during the holiday period has skyrocketed and all those new phone owners will be looking for some nice new shiny apps to install, to get the most out of their new device. If you are an Android app developer, this is the golden moment to get your app out there in front of all those eyeballs.
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One of the harder steps in the creative process of developing an application is right between the idea's conception and the baby steps of its implementation. Especially with more complex application ideas, it can be useful to work out some of the general details before you take the leap. What form will the application take? What's it going to look like, and feel like?
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If you agree that Apple and Android mobile devices are aesthetically stylish and appealing, you will probably want to develop your own attractive mobile app without having to learn complicated coding and graphic design. If you would like to send stylish invitations for say a wedding, birthday party, book club meeting, fundraiser, etc, a new online and mobile (Apple and Android) application and service called Yapp may be of interest to you.
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Highly-connective programs can do a lot, but they're also an open invitation for bad hackers to strike. To prevent strikes from becoming successful, a developer would have to spot and close every single hole in their code, which simply isn't possible. Instead, developers have to take that fact and plan their code with that in mind. The most common and effective solution: a sandbox.
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Much like Ryan (who attributed his curiosity with Android app development to his love for his Android handset), I have been on a quest to find out how to make and finish an Android app. This search has included books in the beginning but due to the frequent updates of packages to download to accommodate new Android platform versions, books are usually outdated very quickly.
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For those of you that would really love to be able to write your own application, but have never typed a single line of code before, I'm going to walk you through making your very first computer program. This program isn't for programming experts or even moderately skilled coders - it's for the newbie.
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Even if you don't know any iPhone app development code, it doesn't mean you can't design your idea and find a developer to build it for you. For designing, this where iRise Studio comes in. It is a powerful Mac and PC platform containing graphical tools and assets you need to create your mobile simulated app.
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