Rovio has today released a teaser trailer for its brand new iOS title, published under its new talented developer initiative, Rovio Stars. Rovio Starts is designed to bring “the best new games from talented and innovative developers”, helping to boost the profile of 3rd party developers and their titles. Rovio’s first release under the new label will…
A document leaked to Business Insider suggests that recently banned app discovery service AppGratis offered developers lucrative App Store rankings in exchange for financial investment. Apple recently removed AppGratis from the App Store on the grounds that it was violating guidelines prohibiting apps from mimicking the App Store. This new development…
Although Apple’s iOS maps application has received more than its fair share of criticism since its launch last fall, it seems as if some are finally warming up to the app. A couple weeks ago, there was even a report in which Apple Maps outperformed both Waze and Google Maps. The most recent story regarding Apple’s mapping app, however, is that…
@9to5mac @idownloadblog Hi, I am the developer of #HiddenApps, @idoodler , Apple terminated my Developer account. — David (@idoodler) March 13, 2013 Earlier this week, HiddenApps managed to sneak onto the App Store. It allowed users to hide stock iOS apps through some rather interesting iOS trickery. You would select an app you wished to hide,…
Earlier this week, we brought you news that a fancy new app had somehow made its way in to the App Store. HiddenApps allowed users to hide stock iOS apps with a simple “poof”. Obviously, this went against Apple’s policies – completely changing the way iOS was built. It didn’t take long for the app to be pulled from iTunes. Today, the developer…
This is some unfortunate news. According to a developer on the evad3rs team, the developers of the evasi0n jailbreak, the software does not work with iOS 6.1.3. David Wang has confirmed to Forbes that one of the multiple exploits used in the jailbreak is fixed in the 2nd beta of iOS 6.1.3, and with one broken, it doesn’t work at all: If one…
Google today announced it’s Google Maps SDK version 1.1 which is now available for iOS developers. The new SDK includes new mapping tools that allow developers to include ground overlays, which allow developers to superimpose images on top of the maps, and new viewing gesture controls. The new SDK also allows developers to more easily acquire the new…
If you’ve been following the news today, you probably heard about Apple and other companies being exposed to a hacker. More information has come out and it turns out an iPhone developer forum is the cause of this hacking scandal. The website, iPhoneDevSDK, contained malicious software that was used to hack into Macs, including those of Apple’s…
One of the developers of the new evasi0n jailbreak, which has been downloaded too many times to keep track of, has come out to explain just how the tool works. One thing is for certain, this is an extremely complex jailbreak. David Wang, aka @planetbeing, is who described the jailbreak to Forbes. It goes through multiple steps of multiple…
EA has just published a new video on YouTube titled “Real Racing 3 Developer Diary: Real Tracks”. What it talks about (watch it above for yourself if you’d like) is how some of the tracks in the game are actually based on real places. The team of developers go around talking about the different areas that are used for tracks in the game, and how they were…
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