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 […]
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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 […]
Significant Advances in the Consumer Drone Market
Lately I’ve been so focused on mobile, apps, development, conferences, and more that I haven’t posted much besides IBM work news and projects. Well, I’m taking a break for just a moment… If you’ve followed my blog for a while, then you already know that I’m pretty much obsessed with “drones”. It is by far the […]
Data Management for Apps that Work as Well Offline as They Do Online
Earlier this week I had the privilege of speaking at ApacheCon in Austin, TX on the topic of data management for apps that work as well offline as they do online. This is an important topic for mobile apps, since, as we all painfully know already, there is never a case when you are always online […]
Video: The Next Generation of Native Apps Built with IBM MobileFirst
Last month I had the opportunity to speak at the DevNexus developer conference in Atlanta on building native iOS apps IBM MobileFirst. DevNexus is a great event, and it is always a privilege to attend – I highly recommend it for next year. If you weren’t able to make it, no worries! Most of the sessions were […]
IBM Watson QA + Speech Recognition + Speech Synthesis = A Conversation With Your Computer
Back in November I released a demo application here on my blog showing the IBM Watson QA Service for cognitive/natural language computing connected to the Web Speech API in Google Chrome to have real conversational interaction with a web application. It’s a nice demo, but it always drove me nuts that it only worked in […]
GeoPix: A sample iOS app powered by IBM MobileFirst for Bluemix
In this post I’d like to show a fairly simple application that I put together which shows off some of the rich capabilities for IBM MobileFirst for Bluemix that you get out of the box – All with an absolute minimal amount of your own developer effort. Bluemix, of course, being IBM’s platform as a […]
Updated: Parallax Effects in Hybrid/Web Apps
A while back I wrote about adding parallax effects to your HTML/JS experiences to make them feel a bit richer and closer to a native experience. I’ve just added this subtle (key word *subtle*) effect to a new project and made a few changes I wanted to share here. If you are wondering what I […]