ShapedButton: Non-rectangular buttons on the iPhone
UIButton has always been capable of displaying buttons with arbitrary non-rectangular shapes. All you have to do is use PNG images with alpha channels to define the transparent parts of the bounds rectangle.
While a button’s shape may be arbitrary, UIButton always responds to touches within its entire bounds, however. This could cause problems and confusion for the users, especially when multiple non-rectangular buttons are placed close together so that their frames overlap.
ShapedButton is a replacement for UIButton that solves this issue. Instances of ShapedButton only respond to touches where the button image is non-transparent. Here’s how to use it:
In app Social Media Integration
In app Social Media Integration provides a unique opportunity to exponentially increase the visibility of your event or product offering. Social media is your window to connect with your customers. Every enterprise can leverage the use of social media to get in touch with that elusive customer easily. So be it Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or other community forums, every second, all around the world, your customers and prospects are interacting with each other using these very social media networks. It is time to leverage the same potential for your enterprise.
Wireless Ad-Hoc Distribution
One of the challenges of testing an iOS App is distributing the application to willing testers. The default method of e-mailing an *.ipa file along with the *.mobileprovision file and instructions for synching the files through iTunes can be cumbersome for many users. Many testers may come from the business side and not have the technical background to comfortably accomplish this.
Kupika Design has develped an OTA (Over the Air) distribution framework to make the distribution process simple, fast and painless. Users can simply navigate to our distribution page in mobile Safari on their iOS device. From that page there are simply links to invoke installation of the app. Its faster and easier and users need not be at their computer with iTunes to install the latest build.
Deeper Messaging and Engagement with Rich Push.
Rich Push allows you to create and send engaging experiences by adding HTML, video, audio, maps and other rich media components to your push notifications. Moving beyond alerts and badge updates, Rich Push takes users into the app while displaying content in a customizable WebKit view. Create branded messages that engage your users with new content and information, all without having to update your app.
For the Harmony Arts Festival we provided the capability to send a message to all users of the app about a distinct Event. In this case the event record is part of the message payload :
If the user chooses “View” then the app will open to the Event Detail page for that event.
