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Most designers today create static mockups to communicate app ideas. But increasingly apps are anything but static, which means as designers we need a better tool for interaction design.

Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming.

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Fluid UI is the smartest fastest browser-based mobile app prototyping tool available. Easily design and test mobile app prototypes. Simple and usability oriented, FluidUI.com helps unlock creativity to save your team time and money while creating app requirements.

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There are eight main usage scenarios:

List all Unicode characters used in an EPUB file or a plain text UTF-8 file.

List all Unicode glyphs present in a TTF/OTF/WOFF font file.

Check whether a given font file contains all the glyphs needed to properly display the given EPUB or plain text file.

Minimize a given font file, that is, create a new font file containing only the subset of glyphs of a given font that are contained in a EPUB or plain text file.

Convert a font file from/to TTF/OTF/WOFF format.

Export one of the above lists of Unicode characters as an EPUB file, for quick testing on an eReader.

Lookup for information about a given Unicode character, including fuzzy name matching.

Count the number of characters in an EPUB file or a plain text UTF-8 file.

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Fragmentation is both a strength and weakness of the Android ecosystem. When comparisons are made between Android and iOS the issue of different API levels, and the vastly different devices running them, is often emphasised. In this report we examine the extent of Android fragmentation and analyse its impact on both users and developers.

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> The tutorial focuses on the ways an InDesign CS6 file should be arranged in order to be appropriately exported as ePub. Further insights are provided in order to improve quality of the exported ePub in terms of file size, metadata, layout

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> ### The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala > > Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. > > Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.

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By Nick Arnott:

I had previously posted about a mind map for getting started with mobile testing that I had come across on the Ministry of Testing website. What I was really hoping to eventually see was an iOS specific one, which I’m happy to say we now have. Bernard and I have put together this mind map for testing iOS.

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By Nick Ruffilo: > A visual guide through the possibilities of HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. Every example is followed by what it takes and some cost estimation.

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> [Subliminal](http://inkling.github.io/Subliminal/) is Inkling’s new, open-source framework for writing iOS integration tests. Like other similar frameworks, Subliminal lets developers write Objective-C tests that integrate directly into the applications being tested. But Subliminal has a not-so-secret strength: underneath, it’s powered by Apple’s [UIAutomation](http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/UsingtheAutomationInstrument/UsingtheAutomationInstrument.html) framework. For example, when it comes to the in-app purchase alert, Subliminal doesn’t need to tap on the alert directly; instead, it can dynamically generate the JavaScript necessary for UIAutomation to perform that action.

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A periodical about best practices and advanced techniques in Objective-C.

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Best third party iOS libraries

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> You have JavaScript. You need a [bookmarklet][1]. This does that. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet

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Follow-up to Behind the Scenes of Our New iOS Comic Reading Experience:

@lessthanuthink: I wrote a post for the Kobo blog about how we put together our new comic renderer #eprdctn

@elmimmo_: The article doesn’t give any specifics about how to make sure, #eprdctn wise, the comic engine is used. Care to fill in?

@lessthanuthink: The basic #eprdctn guidelines for it are: don’t use media overlays, use just 1 image per page (or 0 for blanks), don’t use text.

@elmimmo_: Does that include using CSS background image for body/empty div or does it explicitly have to be an img element?

@lessthanuthink: Currently it has to be an img element, but if we find image-based comics that aren’t loading in it we might revise that.

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By Kobo Labs: > We recently launched a new update to the [Kobo iOS app](https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/kobo-books/id301259483?mt=8) (version 5.10) which includes support for Japanese content, improved font resizing, and a faster and more responsive reading experience for comics. > > We're particularly excited about this new comic experience, which we think readers are really going to like. It provides a fluid reading experience, complete with seamless loading times so that you can read without any interruptions or delays. The approach we took in developing this new viewer was a bit unconventional, and so for the more technically minded here's some background from the Kobo Labs team’s lead iOS developer on what went into building it.

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By Marius Ducea: > mysqldump will backup _by default_ all the **triggers** but **NOT** the **stored procedures/functions**. There are 2 mysqldump parameters that control this behavior.

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> DevRocket is an iOS development panel plug-in that provides Adobe Photoshop with additional iOS specific tools and functionalities that are designed to assist key areas in iOS app design for all iPhone models (including the iPhone 5) and all iPad models. A simplified solution to working between display resolutions, breaking down full ui designs into separate elements ready for Xcode and saving for the Retina display are just a few of the awesome features DevRocket brings to iOS designers currently using Photoshop.

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> Create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments.