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With the increasing variety of listening options available to consumers music promotion is becoming more difficult. The internet provides a fantastic platform for all artists to show off their music to large audiences, so to stand out from the growing crowd a musician needs to know how best to use it, and app developers are well placed to help them with this. Targeted app development can allow artists to create a personalised space that they can use to provide fans, and potential fans, with information such as tour dates and release dates. By integrating feeds and features from other useful music apps such as Last.Fm and Soundcloud, app developers can increase traffic to the artist’s pages on those sites through them all being linked together. The app itself will also increase the overall audience, as people will likely download it purely through curiosity.

Promotion through app development also has the huge advantage of portability; nowadays people spend an increasingly large amount of time using smartphones and tablets wherever they go, be it while working out at the gym, commuting to work or just relaxing at home. With this comes a plethora of advertising opportunities, and musicians can enlist the help of app developers to maximise their visibility wherever people are.

Written by Joe Tummon.

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Big thanks for Priti Shikotra for writing this guest blog post for us.

‘What camera do you use?’
‘What lenses do you use?’
‘What software do you use to edit?’

These are some of the questions i get asked when I tell someone I’m a a photographer -
it’s like the ice breaker!

Like any other field – its not always the tools you use but what you do with them. As a photographer – i think you can use any type of camera to capture a single moment. That’s not to say that you don’t need good glass though such as for capturing motion and low-light – but you can essentially – use your phone or a point and shoot to get a great shot. Its the vision that you have that allows you to capture that moment.

Depending on the type of photographer you are – you may edit your work heavily – personally i try not to edit my work too much. I think it can potentially take away from the shot.

Generally i use software on my mac to make these little changes to my work.

With the intro of tablets – specifically the iPad – there’s been a whole different ball game involved in how you can work within the industry. You just have to look at the works of artists like Kyle Lambert who can show just how powerful the iPad really is.

One of the apps i like to use on the iPad is photogene. This is a photo editing app which is pretty powerful for on the go. For example, in a real life situation, if i’m shooting a wedding, I have the option to transfer a few shots to the iPad, quickly make slight changes to them and have them played back to the visitors at a stand or for the bride and groom to see them on the day. I’ve had my bride wanting to see photos as I take them! I just cant say no!

I downloaded it first to my iPhone a couple years ago and then the iPad version was released and i downloaded it on to there and had a play. This app is simple to use and if you use it the right way – you can get some pretty good results.

Shot of Budgie on the left before the edit, and to the right after, after edit.

So what I’ve done for this demo is brought in a shot of Budgie from Daystar – i shot them live at Drybar in Manchester earlier this year. As you can see, the original shot has the color and lighting – a lot of the time I vision shots in black and white – when processing them after capturing them I edit them on my mac. On this occasion I’ve brought it into photogene.The app has a preset section – for anyone that isn’t familiar with photo editing software, this is a great tool in the app to just hit and apply the filter to your photo – with a touch of your finger your pic can look totally different. For someone that may be a little more advanced and want to have more control of how and what you want the shot to look at – you can hit the adjustments panel and it gives you a whole load of control over the shot you’re editing. I’ve basically knocked down the saturation to convert it to black and white and sharpened the image off – one of my things is to blur out the back so the subject is more defined. Hit the retouches option and there’s an option for blur – notice the blur on the bg between image one and 2 – very subtle but i feel it makes a difference in my shots. Of course it depends on what you have captured.”Plenty of options available within the app to allow you to edit the shot as much or as little as you want”

There’s a fair few different options you can play around with depending on the desired results. As I say, it depends on how much you want to edit your work.

There’s an option for text, so in this instance I have added some text to watermark the image – there’s the standard apple fonts to choose from and you have the option to change the colour of the text and also add outlines to the text. I have selected an outline and put
dragged the box to the bottom right of the image.

Plenty of options available within the app to allow you to edit the shot as much or as little as you want

Metadata option is very useful. Here your able to embed the information on to the file such as copyright information and credits. This information generally is embedded to the file so when accessed / viewed online – the electronic data is linked to you the photographer as the ‘owner’ if you like.

A great use for the text is embedding a watermark on to the shot and it’s so easy to share across to different platforms

The export option has again got a fair few different options. The great thing about this is not only can you just hit upload to social networking sites such as twitter and facebook – but also the option of sharing via dropbox and email is handy. Also, you can select what
resolution you want to export in – so if you want to keep hold of the original res, then you can – or if you want to reduce the rate, then you can hit that option!

Priti Shikotra is a professional photographer based in manchester. See her website here: Manchester Photographer

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As app developers it is key that our work flow integrates with both our consultants (for app discovery), our app designers (for creativity and flow) and with our customers (to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction).

This short post is going to focus on the design stage of app development and look at some of the more technical aspects that impact on app developers across the World. Primarily focusing on some for the resolutions and dimensions. So without further ado! Here is the spec list that is relevant for both app designers and app developers.

iPhone 3G: 320 pixels x 480 pixels

iPhone 4 or 4S: 630 pixels x 960 pixels

iPad 2: 1024 pixels x 768

The new iPad (3): 2048 pixels x 1536 pixels

Samsung Galaxy S2: 800 pixels x 480 pixels

 

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For those of you wondering – the title picture of this blog post is anothe Gameloft title – Nova!

We enjoy being iPad app developers as much as anything. Especially as we must continue researching new releases and innovations in mobile apps. In this short blog post we will be focusing on the games category and in particular, Gameloft. It’s almost an injustice to refer to these guys only iPad app developers as in reality they create for most mobile platforms. They have created a wide range of high quality and graphically intensive games. With the gameplay being consistently good. In reality Gameloft are a huge organisation with a myriad of iPad app developers, iPhone app developers, Android app developers and more! But their focus on games has certainly led them to specialise in their field. The game which inspired this post was Real Football 2012 on the iPad. Great game with all the features you would expect from a high quality sports app. But the freemium model has been so well thought out. These app developers have been up all night trying to work out how best to reel in our in app purchases and its starting to work!

 

See below for the list of Gameloft titles! Its a long list! (Taken from Wiki)

0-9

 

1 vs 100

1000 Words

9mm (Blackberry Playbook, iOS, Android, Mac) Max Payne

 

A

 

Abracadaball (Bubble Buster)

Air Strike 1944

Alone at War (iOS, iPod Touch)

American Gangster (video game)

American Popstar: Road to Celebrity

America’s Army:Special Operations

Assassin’s Creed

Assassin’s Creed: Altaïr’s Chronicles (iOS, Palm Pre)

Assassin’s Creed II

Assassin’s Creed:Brotherhood

Assassin’s Creed:Revelations

Asphalt: Urban GT Need for Speed, Burnout

Asphalt: Urban GT 2 Need for Speed, Burnout

Asphalt 3: Street Rules (N-Gage, samsung corby) Need for Speed, Burnout

Asphalt 4: Elite Racing (iOS, iPod, N-Gage, mobile, DSiWare)

Asphalt 5 (iOS, Palm Pre, Symbian) Need for Speed, Burnout

Asphalt 6: Adrenaline (Blackberry Playbook, Android, Symbian, iOS, Mac OS X[1]) Need for Speed, Burnout

Asphalt GT: Nitro Racing (3DS) Need for Speed, Burnout

Asphalt: Injection (PS Vita) Need for Speed, Burnout

Avatar

 

B

 

Battle for the White House

Bailout Wars (iOS)

Beowulf: The Mobile Game

Blades of Fury (iOS) Soulcalibur

Block Breaker Deluxe (Wii, iOS, N-Gage, mobile)

Block Breaker Deluxe 2

Block Breaker 3:Unlimited (Android, iOS)

Brain Challenge (Wii, iOS, DS, PS3, Xbox, N-Gage, PSP, mobile)

Brain Challenge 2 (iOS)

Bridge Odyssey (iOS)

Brothers in Arms (N-Gage)

Brothers in Arms: Art of War

Brothers in Arms DS

Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood[2]

Brothers in Arms: Hour of Heroes (iOS, Palm Pre)

Bubble Bash (iOS)

 

C

 

Catz

Castle Frenzy (iOS)

Castle of Magic (iOS, Palm Pre, Nintendo DSi)

Chess Classics (iOS)

Chess and Backgammon Classics (iOS)

Chessmaster

Chuck Norris: Bring on the Pain

Common Sense

Crystal Monsters (Nintendo Dsi)

CSI: Miami (iOS, mobile)

CSI: The Mobile Game

 

D

 

Date or Ditch

Date or Ditch 2

Deal or No Deal (U.K.)

Derek Jeter Pro Baseball 2008

Derek Jeter Real Baseball (iOS)

Desperate Housewives

Diamond Rush

Diamond Twister

Die Hard 4.0

Dogz (N-Gage)

Driver (iOS)

Driver: LA Undercover

Driver San Francisco

Dungeon Hunter (iOS, Palm Pre) Diablo, Dungeon Siege

Dungeon Hunter: Alliance (Playstation Network, Mac OS X, PS Vita) Diablo, Dungeon Siege

 

E

 

Earthworm Jim (iOS, Palm Pre, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade)

Eternal Legacy (Blackberry Playbook, iOS, mobile) Final Fantasy

 

F

 

Ferrari GT: Evolution (iOS, mobile)

Fishing Kings (iOS, Android)†[note 1]

 

G

 

Gangstar: Crime City Grand Theft Auto

Gangstar 2: Kings of L.A Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Gangstar: West Coast Hustle (Android, iOS, Palm Pre) Grand Theft Auto

Gangstar: Miami Vindication (Android, iPhone, iPod touch) Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Gangstar Rio: City of Saints Grand Theft Auto

Ghost Mansion Party (Wii)

Golden Balls

Grey’s Anatomy The Mobile Game

Green Farm

GT Racing: Motor Academy (iOS, Mobile, Blackberry Playbook)†[note 1] Gran Turismo

Guitar Legend

Guitar Rock Tour (Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSiWare, iOS, mobile) Guitar Hero, Rock Band

Guitar Rock Tour 2 (iOS) Guitar Hero, Rock Band

 

H

 

Hero of Sparta (Nintendo DSi Ware, iOS, Palm Pre – PlayStation 3 and PSP as minis) God of War

Heroes

 

I

 

Immortal

 

J

 

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game (iOS, Palm Pre)

 

K

 

Kevin Pietersen Pro Cricket

KO Legends

 

L

 

Las Vegas Nights

Lego Batman: The Mobile Game

Let’s Golf! (iOS, Palm pre – PlayStation 3 and PSP as minis)

Let’s Golf! 2 (Blackberry Playbook, iOS, Mac OS X)

Let’s Go Bowling

Lost

Lumines Mobile

 

M

 

Massive Snowboarding

March of Heroes Call of Duty: Black Ops

Megacity Empire Simcity (series), Tycoon City: New York

Miami Nights: Single in the City (DS)

Miami Nights: The city is yours

Midnight Bowling (Wii, iOS, mobile)

Midnight Bowling 2

Midnight Hold’em Poker

Midnight Play Pack (DS)

Midnight Pool (Wii, iOS, N-Gage)

Midnight Pool 2

Midnight Pool 3D

Might and Magic

Might and Magic II

Million Dollar Poker feat. Gus Hansen

Mission Impossible III

Modern Combat: Domination (PS3, Mac OS X)

Modern Combat: Sandstorm (iOS, Bada, Palm Pre, Android) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus (Blackberry Playbook, iOS, Android) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation (Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Homefront

Mystery Mansion Pinball (iOS)

My Life in New York

 

N

 

Naval Battle: Mission Commander (iOS)

.. Men in Black 3 for (iOS)

NBA Pro Basketball 2010

New York Nights: Success in the City

New York Nights 2: Friends for Life

NFL 2008 (DS)

NFL 2009

NFL 2010 (iOS, Palm Pre)

NFL HD 2011

NFL Pro 2012

Nightmare Creatures

Ninja Prophecy

Nitro Street Racing Need for Speed: Underground

Nitro Street Racing 2 Need for Speed: Underground

N.O.V.A. Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance (iOS, Playstation OS (PSP, PS3), Mac OS X, Palm Pre, Android) Halo

N.O.V.A 2: The Hero Rises Again (Blackberry Playbook, iOS) Halo

 

O

 

Open Season

Order & Chaos Online (iOS, Android) World of Warcraft, Warhammer

Oregon Trail (Mobile, iOS, Palm Pre)

Oregon Trail 2: Gold Rush

 

P

 

Petz

Paris Hiltons Jewl Jam

Paris Night

Platinum Solitaire

Platinum Solitaire 2

Platinum Solitaire 3

Platinum Sudoku

Platinum Sudoku 2

Power thirst the game

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia Classic (PS3, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Store)

Prince of Persia: Harem Adventures

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (iOS)

Prince of Persia: The forgotten sands

Pro Golf 2007 3D

Pro Moto Racing

Pro Rally Racing

 

Q

R

 

Rayman (DSiWare, iOS, PlayStation Network, Windows Mobile, Palm Pilot)

Rayman 3

Rayman Bowling

Rayman Garden

Rayman Golf

Rayman Kart

Rayman Raving Rabbids

Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party

Real Football 2004

Real Football 2005

Real Football 2006 (Real Soccer 2006)

Real Football 2007

Real Football 2008

Real Football 2009 (Nintendo DS, DSiWare, iOS)

Real Football 2010 (Nintendo DSiWare, iOS, Palm Pre)

Real Football 2011 (Blackberry Playbook, iOS, Android)

Real Football 2012

Real Rugby (Invictus mini game, Xbox)

Reggie Bush Pro Football 2007

Reggie Bush Pro Football 2008

Rogue Planet (iOS)

 

S

 

Sally’s Studio

Sexy Poker 2009 (Wii, Mobile)

Sherlock Holmes: The Official Movie Game

Shrek, Shrek 2, Shrek Forever After (iOS, iPod Classic, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, Palm Pre)

Shrek Kart (iOS, Palm Pre)

Shrek the Third

Siberian Strike

Siberian Strike Episode II

Sid Meier’s Civilization V: The Mobile Game

“Six-Guns” (IOS, Android)

Skater Nation (iOS, Palm Pre)

Skee-Ball

Speed Devils

Spring Break Fever

Spider-Man: Total Mayhem (Blackberry Playbook)

Spider-Man: Toxic City

Soul of Darkness (DSiWare) Castlevania

Surf’s Up

 

T

 

Tank Battles (PlayStation 3)

Terminator Salvation (iOS)

Texas Hold’Em Poker (Wii, Mobile)

Texas Hold’em Poker 2

The O.C.

The Settlers (iOS, Palm Pre)

The Amazing Spider-Man (iOS, Android)

Tokyo City Nights (Japan Only)

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm (U.S.)

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X (iOS, Palm Pre, Symbian, Android)

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction (iOS)

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Double Agent

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow

Tropical Madness

TV Show King (Wii, iOS, PlayStation 3)

TV Show King Party

 

U

 

Uno (Blackberry Playbook, iOS, Palm Pre, Nintendo DSi, Wii, PlayStation 3)

Urban Crime

 

V

 

Vampire Romance

 

W

 

Wild West Guns (Wii)

Wimbledon 2008 Official Game

Wimbledon 2009

Wonder Blocks (iOS)

 

X

 

XIII

XIII 2

Xtreme Dirt Bike

 

Y

Z

 

Zombie Infection Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead

Zombie Infection 2 Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead

Baku Keju

 

 

 

 

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We know how to develop a good app for your driving school.

Are you planning to get a mobile app developed for your driving school? Or are you a driving instructor who would like your own mobile app developed to complement your online presence?

We can help. Our app developers have put together a great package for driving schools. We can integrate any features you require in your mobile app. Below is a list of some features we believe works well.

Custom Branding

With your own driving school logo, images, descriptions and graphics.

Free Worldwide Download

380 million available users through the Apple App Store and Android Market (now Google Play).

Wide Availability

For iPhone, iPod touch, and Android devices.

Push Notification Messages

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Yes I’m aware that this is our second post about the Flipboard app. Although the inital post was purely to direct you to the Android App download for non Samsung Galaxy S3 phone users!

We’ve been using Flipboard more and more at The App Media Co office and it gets better and better. Although this app has been available on the iPhone for some time. Now that the Android version is installed on my Samsung Galaxy S2 I have grown to love the personalised features.

The app developers have integrated what is probably the best Facebook interface I have seen with  a sleek flipboard display, stylised like buttons and easy comment features. The layout and app UI makes it so easy to quickly flick through your Facebook feed. Its very efficient. Also the Twitter feed works in a  similar manner. Flick through and see content from the links that people have posted. Its at this point you think “these app developers have thought of everything”, but there is more!

The ability to select relevant news content and have it all in one place with various sources for articles is amazing. Varied content and an engaging app user interface.

Use this app in combination with Pocket for offline viewing and you have a complete mobile app powered solution even when there is no Internet connection!

The Flipboard App Developers have done well!

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Are you considering getting a mobile app developed for your radio station? Our app developers have had a lot of experience working with Radio Stations (we’ve worked with plenty). Whether you have a clear idea of what features you require in your radio station mobile app or would like us to suggest some relevant features we are happy to help.

We’ve worked on app development projects with various radio stations including Unity Radio, All FM, Silk 106.9 and most recently Peace FM. Our app developers work on all platforms so whether it is iPhone app development, blackberry app development or Android app development – we can help.Mobile apps developed for radio stations can deliver a number of benefits…

• Increase your mobile listenership
• Increase studio interaction by up to 500%
• Connect with your listeners
• Deliver mobile podcasts

Lets take the Unity Radio app development project as an example. This has now achieved 20,000 downloads for the iPhone app alone!

Radio App Features:

• Listen Live!
  No need to worry if you don’t have a stream – we can provide radio streaming services too. Just ask us for a competitive quote!
• Mobile Advertising
  Mobile advertising is expected to grow to £380 million in the UK this year. Don’t miss out on sponsorship opportunities.
• Mobile podcasts
  Allow your listeners to access your podcasts on the move. Wherever they are, whenever they want.
• Studio interaction
  Allow users to send messages or pictures to the studio!
• Events
  Promote your radio stations upcoming events through your mobile app.
• Competitions
  Control and promote competitions through your app
• Push notifications
  The most effective way to connect with your customers. Communicate your marketing message for an instant effect. (97% read rate)
• Social Media app integration
  Your live Twitter or Facebook feed is included in the radio app.
• Go viral
  Allow listeners to share and recommend your app or radio station through their personal social media pages.
• News
  Keep your user engaged with your live news feed

All of these great radio station app features can be linked to your existing online channels if required. This means that you don’t have to do extra work to keep your mobile listeners up to date. Contact the App Media Co App Developers today. We know how to develop a great mobile app for your radio station!

Our  previous radio app customers include:

Unity Radio (Streaming services & iPhone and Android app development)
Silk 106.9 (iPhone and Android app development)
All FM (iPhone app development)
Peace FM (Streaming services & iPhone and Android app development)

See more on our portfolio page: App Developers for radio stations

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