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Success story with Gideros Studio: A snow tale

What happens when 3 mothers with different expertise who do not know each other write a child book for iPad and iPhone? Of course, it gets more than 90 reviews, with 5 full stars, gets featured several times on the media, and more importantly, downloaded more than 32000 times!

  The story of the e-book is very interesting. 3 mothers haven't known each other until one of them decided to write a book and share it on Twitter. Immediately after, two mothers decided to join forces and all eventually gathered together to write a book. It's a big coincidence that all supporters are woman, and haven't met before! :-)

  What's more encouraging for us is, ebook has gotten so much attention from media, and a publisher decided to publish the ebook in print form. This will surely allow the book to reach a wider audience in a short time.

  So lovely!

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Gideros IDE = productivity, here's how

Using an editor and then switching to another always creates some puzzle and confusion the first time. This is like an out-of-box experience, when you download a new product and decide to use it or not, based on your first 30-second to 30-minute experience. Here comes usability and user experience, in another words, effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction.

  We want Gideros Studio IDE the hands-down best platform independent IDE around to build mobile applications for iOS and Android. If our editor is not usable, then our vision would totally be useless. Therefore we decided to make Gideros Studio editor more comfortable and usable for end users, and wanted to start with shortcuts. While the Windows port was successful in terms of keyboard shortcuts, there has been some confusion in the forum, and we wanted to take care of this immediately (as usual ;-))

  This is a list of how Gideros Studio editor behaves under Mac OS X:

    (command button) command + left: start of line command + right: end of line command + up: beginning of document command + down: end of document command + backspace: delete line to the left (option button) option + left: move to next word on the left (case insensitive) option + right: move to next word on the right (case insensitive) option + backspace: delete word to left (control button) control + left: move to next word on the left (case sensitive) control + right: move to next word on the right (case sensitive) control + up: page up control + down: page down control + backspace: delete word to left (same with option + backspace)

  Now Gideros Studio IDE is much more stronger, and resembles the behaviour found in many good general editors out there, like TextMate, TextEdit and Xcode. The list above is in fact is by no means complete - just press shift and your action will select the corresponding word, line or page (excluding command/option/control + backspace)

    We strive hard towards a more emotional user experience, since a developer interacts with the IDE more than any other applications stored in his computer. All temporal levels of user experience (momentary, episodic, and long-term) are important to us, ensuring a healthy overall user experience and happy Gideros Studio users!

  PS: Banner courtesy of World Usability Day 2006

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Gideros weekly update for October, 3

This blog post is related to weekly update of what we are up to - hope you'll like - here it comes!

  Moved to a new server

We have been suffering from network issues for a long time, and we decided to move to a new provider in US. Probably you already have noticed how fast our web page is, since our servers are much healthier and faster now.

  Fresh forum software

We can admit that we never were satisfied with our current phpbb3 forum installation: configuration is cumbersome, spam prevention needs lots of tweaking, and threaded discussions are not easy to follow. For some time there has been a debate among us which forum software to implement, and found out Vanilla Forums - which is really clean, fresh, easy to install, use and administer. Well, enter our new forum and experience yourself! :)

  Gideros Studio now exports to Android

As you can see from the image below, you'll have the option to export to Eclipse project - a testament to our commitment for openness. As you know, it's possible to export your iOS project to Xcode3, and make modifications on your application. This is again true for Android apps - for the 2011.9 final version,  it'll be possible to export to Eclipse, so you can customize your own application.

    Soon after, we'll provide a method to "generate an Android APK file" so you don't have to open Eclipse and try to build your application!

  Other Gideros Studio 2011.9 goodies

There are some minor feature addons to Gideros Studio 2011.9 which do not break compatibility with 2011.6:

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There's an "Export assets only" function, which overrides your exported Xcode3 / Java code if you don't click. In case you made any changes to your exported code, checking this option will not override any files except assets (e.g sound and graphic files)

The toolbar now has an "Open Project" icon, which opens a project. This is much faster than clicking on File menu, and then Open.

Gtween animation library has been ported to Gideros Studio. For more information about this library, see GTween home page.

The fonts in popup bar in Mac OS X were small (as requested in our forum), and they are now bigger

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  We are working really hard to make Gideros the most usable, free and extensive SDK out there! Stay tuned.