Following on from the relative success (about one sale per day at the moment) of the Response sticker pack for iPhone (see previous post), we have released another called Movie Quotes.
My favourite quote – “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” Let me know if I have missed any great quotes that should be included.
You can check out the sticker pack on iTunes or via the iMessage app store on your phone.
In a recent post we mentioned that had released a sticker pack for the new iMessage store. No doubt these will sink without a trace amongst the millions of sticker packs being approved, but we did notice one issue when we purchased our own pack to try it out.
We purchased the pack on iTunes and then assumed it would automatically load onto our phone. Apparently not! So then we tried to find it on the iMessage store from our phone. Response didn’t even show up in the search results when we searched for “Response”. This is disturbing for a couple of reasons, firstly it doesn’t bode well for sales if you can’t find it even if you know its name. Secondly, even if you manage to find and purchase it, how do you download it if you can’t find it??
There is a way, but it isn’t straight forward – hence the post. The easiest way to find your sticker pack is to open the app store app on your phone or iPad, tap on the Updates tool bar and then tap “Purchased”. You can download and install the sticker pack from there. The following describes how I found this out…
Start by opening the iMessage app, tap on the icon that looks like an A made out of pencils (no I don’t get it), and then tap on the grid looking icon in the bottom left of the screen.
This will open up the screen shown below. Tap on the “+” store icon.
Which will display the iMessage store. Tap on the Manage segmented control (i.e. button) at the top of the screen.
I expected to find the app I had purchased here. Nope. You need to scroll to the bottom and tap on “Purchased”. This will take you to the app store app, where you can download and install your sticker pack.
DISCLAIMER! Self promoting post follows! I wanted to try out the new iMessage functionality so I whipped up a sticker pack of my favourite quotes. If there is something you would like to see in there let me know and I’ll add it to the next version. Don’t forget those 5 star gushing reviews!!
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Got an iPhone or iPad? Use iMessages? Want to have a bit of fun with people you text with? You can drag these stickers over your friends text and rewrite history!! Never lose another argument again!
Includes some of my favourite quotes like “Get to the chopper!” or “The sea was angry that day my friends”! So if you want to be so hot right now, then you need to download Response. Just click on the link below.
Check out the NEW Response sticker pack from Reefwing Software!
Sad but true…
We have published a new Android Tutorial over at the Android Studio Tutorial site.
In this first tutorial we will do the traditional thing and write a “Hello World” Android app. This is very simple with Android Studio and doesn’t require any actual coding since the default app says Hello World. Nevertheless, it does demonstrate how to build an Android Project from scratch and understand the options in the New Project Wizard.
We are using the Developer Preview (version 0.4.0) of Android Studio at the time of writing. Installation details may change so visit the Android Studio site to check out the latest instructions and to download the relevant setup program.
From the Android Studio site:
javac -version. If JDK is not available or the version is lower than 6, download JDK from here.android-studio-bundle-<version>.exe.Select Start menu > Computer > System Properties > Advanced System Properties. Then open Advanced tab > Environment Variables and add a new system variable JAVA_HOME that points to your JDK folder, for exampleC:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21.
android-studio-bundle-<version>.dmg.android-studio-bundle-<version>.tgz, into an appropriate location for your applications.android-studio/bin/ directory in a terminal and execute studio.sh.
android-studio/bin/ to your PATH environmental variable so that you can start Android Studio from any directory.sdk/directory. For example:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Android\android-studio\sdk\Mac: /Applications/Android\ Studio.app/sdk/
Putting together a rough sketch or wire frame of your app design is always a good idea. Doing this will provide the following advantages:
There are many tools and resources available to help make prototyping and generating wire frames easier. Below are 26 resources which can be used to generate your wire frames: