In a recent client iPad app we learned ways to significantly reduce memory usage and improve speed by converting views to images and reusing frequently used view controllers.
Read MoreLast Wednesday, a precocious group of over thirty teens visited the offices of VOKAL Interactive and the MobileMakers studio. These budding developers were not wasting away their salad days loitering at a mall or slumped lifelessly in front of a large flat screen TV. No, these youths were a cohort from the Lake Forest College chapter of iD Programming Academy, a two-week intensive summer camp designed to engage young whippersnappers in the art of coding and the app economy.
Read MoreOnce or twice a month, Vokal hosts an internal Lunch & Learn where any member of the team can take the opportunity to inform their peers on a specific practice, technique, tool, experience, event, ...anything really!
Read MoreTwice a year, Vokal sets aside two “Hack Days” for our team members to help bring their individual ideas to life and pursue new solutions to challenges they identified. Fresh off the heels of our first event, we invited Josh Wu to share his experience.
Read MoreGood choices about data paging are an important part of design and development. Sometimes we need to get lists of data from the server, and sometimes these lists can be really long. Breaking lists up into smaller, discreet "pages" can reduce server overhead and improve response time.
Read MoreI've written up a couple pieces surrounding performance and usefulness of various collection data structures in Swift.
Read MoreMobile agencies face a major challenge when it comes to creating an effective business development / sales process that optimizes for both win-rate and customer acquisition cost in our nascent industry. Choose any handful of agencies to compare, and you are sure to find drastically different approaches. Some invest a substantial amount of time (and resources) upfront developing concepts & strategic direction for clients to win business. Others charge from the start to gain buy-in from the client-side in an effort to break even if the business doesn't come through. Yet another group of agencies may just pitch on experience, process, and provide a quote to lock down business with little investment from either side before the project kicks off.
Read MoreVOKAL kicked off a new biannual project, Hack Days: a time dedicated to exploration, creation and innovation.
Read MoreThe revamped Foursquare is the latest in @UserOnboard's series of onboarding deep-dives, with some keen observations.
Read More“The first big miss was assuming that Millennials are fundamentally different. ...[We are] forgetting that we are dealing with human beings who, like anyone, want great experiences and solutions.”
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