What I’m about to show you might seem like science fiction from the future, but I can assure you it is not. Actually, every piece of this is available for you to use as a service. Today. Yesterday Twilio, an IBM partner whose services are available via IBM Bluemix, announced several new SDKs, including live video chat as a […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Bidirectional Communication Between An Apple Watch Extension and the Host App
In this entry we’re going to focus on building Apple Watch apps that can communicate back and forth with the host application running on the iPhone. This is extremely important since the Apple Watch provides a second screen/peripheral complimentary experience to the main app running on the iOS device – be it a remote control, or quick view/glance […]
Powering Apple Watch Apps with IBM MobileFirst – Part 1
This is the first entry in a multipart series on powering native iPhone and Apple Watch apps using the IBM MobileFirst Platform. In this entry we will cover how to setup the MobileFirst Platform for use within Apple WatchKit apps and leverage the operational analytics and remote logging features. So, let’s first take a look […]
Complete Walkthrough and Source Code for “Building Offline Apps”
I recently put together some content on building “Apps that Work as Well Offline as they do Online” using IBM MobileFirst and Bluemix (cloud services). There was the original blog post, I used the content in a presentation at ApacheCon, and now I’ve opened everything up for anyone use or learn from. The content now lives […]