Update: The IBM Watson team just announced a new native SDK for both iOS and Android that simplifies and streamlines integration with Speech To Text and Text To Speech services. Check out more detail here: IBM Watson Speech Services Just Got A Whole Lot Easier. Using your voice to drive interactions within your app is […]
Tag Archives: mobile
Apple WWDC Recap for Mobile Devs
I’m sure you’ve already heard Apple’s big announcements from the annual Worldwide Developer Conference this week. I was lucky enough to snag a ticket in Apple’s lottery and got to check it all out in person. There were lots of great sessions, with tons of content. Here are the highlights as I saw them from a mobile developer’s […]
Serving Data to the Apple Watch with IBM MobileFirst
This is the third entry in my series on powering Apple Watch apps using IBM MobileFirst. In the first post I covered setting up the project, remote logging, and analytics. In the second post I covered bidirectional communication between the WatchKit extension and host app (not really MobileFirst, but still applicable). In this post we’ll […]
Say What? Live video chat between iOS & WebRTC with Twilio & IBM Watson Cognitive Computing in Real Time
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]