muzzamike

Thanks, this is good to know.

The other large component which gets thrown around is engagement. It seems as if only companies like flurry would be able to discern this sort of information. Anything on a large scale with an embedded sdk that reports engagement really.

Does anyone know of an up-to-date analysis of the iOS app store ranking algorithm? I've seen first hand how ratings can move an app up the list, but I've never noticed engagement or sales having an impact.

I'm sure he's aware of that. This is a major element of the UI which shouldn't require you to move to another screen to enjoy.

Swiping near the bottom with my thumb hasn't bothered me so far, but the text is quite hard to read at that small of a size. I would also like to those cards a bit larger in the future.

I love how deep objc.io dives. They'll present long essays on topics which normally get glossed over in a sentence or two. Particularly useful are their thoughts on the state of objective c design patterns (quite a volatile topic since the release of iOS).

This just means apps will have to be built with Xcode 5. Older iOS versions can still be supported.

Rushed and misread your comment, apologizes.

In 2000...

This hacky code most certainly isn't required.

It appears to only work on certain pre-defined coloring pages.

I bet he's excited to see what he can do with CoreText and iOS7 for this.

..or LiveView or Skala. Either of which are great for live streaming content from you computer's screen to your iphone/ipad.

Wow this is awesome, I use this all the time and had wished I could contribute. Can't wait to start!

Having done the mentos "experiment" after lunch in middle school, I can confidently say it was not classified as an explosion.

We did have to miss out on recess the next day thou...

What I found most interesting about this is how outdated the Distimo data is. I have a couple game apps in the Games Trivia category, which is conveniently less popular. According to Distimo, in May of last year it would take roughly 600 dls per day to reach the top 25. We're averaging 1000 downloads a day with each game and neither has cracked the top 60. Amazing how much a difference a year makes. Anyone know if Distimo has done a followup more recently?

Thanks for another great article Trevor.

Kippster, a 3rd party app, has been pretty great for me on iPad.

I was an avid Pocket user. And it's great for saving things you want to read later and then just throw away.

A lot of these articles/videos I want to read later, then save for reference. With Kippt I can send pages to my Inbox exactly like I did with Pocket. Once I read them, if I want to save them for later, I can move them into any 1 of the categories I've set up. I have about 20 categories ranging from "App Store Articles" to "Analytics Videos" to "General Programming Learning".

I can't imagine how I would live without it now.