I wanted to write such a letter long time ago and did not have the time until I actually had to write down some general guidelines for a project so I decided to copy here the email I sent to a real designer I had the chance to meet (removing any reference to real projects we worked on). Here it is, guidelines for a better programmer-designer relationship.
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Post originally published on Appcelerator’s blog.
We’d like to share with you our story on how we built one of our iPhone apps – ArtistBox – and give you some insights on how we solved the (quite a few) issues that we had.
Artistbox is an iPhone application (built with Titanium Appcelerator) that finds the most complete information about your favorite artists: their biography, discography, news, concerts in your area and worldwide, videos, pictures and similar artists.
We strive to gather way more information than any other music discovery app on the market – for example by adding up-to-date news or hi-res pictures – and for the next versions we will add more cool features.
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A really short post today that gathers Dan’s presentation at TiConf 2013 where he talked about optimizing the code in order to speed up Titanium Appcelerator apps.
Speed up your apps by Dan Tamas TiConf 2013 from dan_tamas
I hope I’ll be able to post a transcript of his speech sometimes next week.
This will probably be the last blog post for 2012 and I don’t want to end this year and begin another one without sending an invitation to all Titanium Appcelerators DeveLovers out there to come and meet each other at TiConf 2013.
Let’s meet next February 23th in Valencia (Spain), have a drink and chat about Titanium, NodeJs, SQLite, your latest Android phone, the latest SDK available or the last night’s tapas tour. Whatever makes you happy, just come – spring in Valencia is awesome and there will also be plenty of time to tour the city and its bars too.
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The presentation is in Spanish and I am also attaching the slides, just in case.