Dave Mustaine: Guitar Prodigy

The Way of H hired Art & Logic to develop new features for their flagship app Rock Prodigy and their new release Dave Mustaine: Guitar Prodigy. The project was to make these iOS apps more useful and easier to use with specific attention to new and important functions which allow the user to adjust the tempo of playback and loop certain sections of a song for focused practice. The response to the new version of the app has been extremely positive. See the Wired review.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Audio  iPod touch  iPad  Core Audio  Music  iPod  Entertainment  Music  Lifestyle  Games  Audio

"Imagination Simulator" Inspires Creative Ideas

BPM Boutique hired Art & Logic to develop INSPIRO, an "imagination simulator" that inspires ideas in artists, teachers, and writers. Working with the co-creators, Art & Logic developed iPad/iPhone/iPod touch apps with a lively feel and stunning visual texture. INSPIRO promotes creative and innovative thought through its large custom vocabulary and complex syntax rules. The iPad version was selected as a "Staff Favorite" by Apple.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Entertainment

Antibiotic Guide for ER Medical Personnel

EMRA hired Art & Logic to develop iOS, Android, and BlackBerry versions of the EMRA Antibiotic Guide. The EMRA Antibiotic Guide is a simple quick reference application for ER medical personnel that presents anything and everything you need to know about a certain antibiotic - how it works, what it works on, what it is contraindicated for, dosing, etc., all cross-referenced. EMRA is the oldest and largest independent resident organization in the world.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  BlackBerry  Android  Medical

iPhone Game for Children

3Pm Studios hired Art & Logic to develop Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals, a children's mix-n-match game that became a runaway hit after its debut on the iTunes App Store. Players select a "pal" and listen to them talk about what they like to do. After learning about the character, the child matches the head with the corresponding body and feet. A special surprise appears after matching all ten pals. more...

3Pm Studios hired Art & Logic to develop Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals, a children's mix-n-match game that became a runaway hit after its debut on the iTunes App Store. Players select a "pal" and listen to them talk about what they like to do. After learning about the character, the child matches the head with the corresponding body and feet. A special surprise appears after matching all ten pals. We developed this iPhone application using Apple's iPhone 2.0 SDK and xCode 3.1. Another variation of the game was released as ABC Alphabet Game for kids with Henry & Hailey. Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals was nominated for the 2008 Best App Ever Awards.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Core Audio  CoreGraphics  Games  Children

iPhone Event Tracking

Eventful for iPhone is a native, web-enabled iPhone application that allows new and existing Eventful users to track events, search for events, performers and venues in their area, make demands for performers to come to their area, stay in touch with their friends' interests and events, and much, much more. It uses Eventful's JSON-based (JavaScript Object Notation) web APIs - the application formulates requests based on user interaction and parses the JSON-style responses for display. The open source json-framework, a JSON parser for Objective C, was integrated and used for parsing the JSON data. more...

Eventful for iPhone is a native, web-enabled iPhone application that allows new and existing Eventful users to track events, search for events, performers and venues in their area, make demands for performers to come to their area, stay in touch with their friends' interests and events, and much, much more. It uses Eventful's JSON-based (JavaScript Object Notation) web APIs - the application formulates requests based on user interaction and parses the JSON-style responses for display. The open source json-framework, a JSON parser for Objective C, was integrated and used for parsing the JSON data. The application uses many of the iPhone SDK's native controls in the UI, including web views, table views, the search field, and others. Apple's Core Location technology is used to track the user's location for searches based on the iPhone's current location. It was developed with Apple's iPhone 2.0 SDK using xCode 3.1. See eventful.com/iphone for more information.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Google Maps  JSON  Entertainment  Social Networking

Adjustable Bed Control from Your iPhone

Leggett & Platt® contracted us to create an iPhone and iPod touch interface to their Prodigy™ line of adjustable beds. The app communicates with the bed over an ad hoc WiFi network and is used to control the different parts of the bed such as the head & foot position, presets, and massagers.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  Hardware  Manufacturing  Furniture

HappyHour: It's Five O'Clock Somewhere!

Sterling Publishing Co. is one of the world's leading publishers of nonfiction titles with more than 5000 books in print. Sterling hired Art & Logic to develop HappyHour, an iPhone application featuring thousands of drink recipes from 10,000 Drinks, a book by Paul Knorr. Users manipulate spinner wheels and use the iPhone's motion sensors to search by liquors, mixers, and beverage types.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  JavaScript  iPod touch  Xcode  HTML  SQLite  Django  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Publishing

iPhone Application to Deliver eBook Content

Pockettales offers authors the ability to convert published works into apps for the iPhone and iPod touch. The company hired Art & Logic to build the deployment technology for converting PDF documents to conform with the special requirement of the iPhone.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  iPod touch  XML  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Publishing

The Beat Thang for iPhone, iPod or iPod touch

Beat Kangz Electronics, LLC partnered with Art & Logic to create PlayaThang and PlayaThang Free. PlayaThang offers simple playback of 20 high quality professional beats (3 in the FREE version). Mute, solo and change volume for each of the 8 stereo tracks that make up each beat to create your own remixes on the fly.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Core Audio  Entertainment  Music

Adjustable Furniture Control from Your iPhone

Leggett & Platt® contracted Art & Logic to create an iPhone and iPod touch interface to their Omega Power Motion™ line of adjustable furniture. The app communicates over an ad hoc WiFi network and is used to control power recliners, rockers, gliders, and other motion furniture. Users can define a variety of preset positions from closed to full recline.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  Mac OS X  iPod touch  Xcode  C  WiFi  Sockets  Manufacturing  Furniture

PhotoJabbr Brings iPhone Pictures to Life!

Bring your pictures to life with PhotoJabbr! Take a photo with your camera or choose an image from your photo library. Then add fun accessories like glasses, hats, eyes and lips. Record your voice, press play, and watch the eyes look around as the mouth moves in perfect synchronization with your voice! And, when you're done animating your PhotoJabbr, you can send it as an e-greeting through SMS or email to your friends and family!

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  XML  PHP  QuickTime  PHP5  HTTP  OpenGL  MMS  Entertainment  Lifestyle

A Simple App Solves A Big Problem

Researchers who present posters at scientific or medical symposia often have to create hundreds of scaled-down, hard-to-read printouts of their poster for handing out at the session. Dark Scorpion's Poster Commander is a less expensive and "green" alternative to poster handouts, and allows a researcher to transmit, using the iPhone's Bluetooth capability, an electronic file (PDF) of the poster from his or her iPhone to the iPhones of attendees who also have this app. Through the "Statistics" screen, poster presenters can keep track of how many times each poster is downloaded and, if selected, the contact information of the person who downloaded the application.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  GameCenter  Peer-to-peer  Education  Medical  Science  Research  Content Distribution

Mobile Movie Showtimes

Terry Hines & Associates hired us to create applications for viewing local movie showtimes. We began by designing an SMS based search tool, to be used as a part of our client's motion picture marketing campaigns. After the initial phase we developed a website and a mobile WAP site, which serve as entertainment resource gateways. We also developed an SMS subscriber list management tool, and a number of web services and Flash/HTML widgets that can be embedded in other sites. more...

Terry Hines & Associates hired us to create applications for viewing local movie showtimes. We began by designing an SMS based search tool, to be used as a part of our client's motion picture marketing campaigns. After the initial phase we developed a website and a mobile WAP site, which serve as entertainment resource gateways. We also developed an SMS subscriber list management tool, and a number of web services and Flash/HTML widgets that can be embedded in other sites. More recently, we created an iPhone version of the WAP site, where users can look up movie showtimes, view entertainment news and gossip, or information about the films themselves. We have also added a feature where SMS or Flash requests can triggered a return voice message, and added an online community to the WAP site.

TAGS:  Web  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  JavaScript  iPod touch  MySQL  HTML  XML  PHP  Linux  HTTP  Facebook  WAP  SMS  Geocoding  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Marketing  Film  Public Relations

Audio Recording and Editing Application

Poddio is an audio recording and editing application for iPhone and iPod touch from Vericorder Technology, Inc. The app is a fully integrated professional quality recording studio used by journalists and others in the broadcasting industry. Art & Logic's expertise in iPhone development and in Core Audio were key to the success of this project.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  Audio  iPod touch  Core Audio  Broadcasting

Playing With Positive Words

p i c t u r e l e s s Books is a children's e-book series by co-authors Teffanie T. White and Adrea L. Peters. Art & Logic was hired to bring the simple, card-based word books to the iOS platform. The app inspires vocabularies that uplift, surprise, and teach using positive words. Users can play with spelling, anagrams, and acronyms. They can send cards to others, post words to friends' facebook pages, or shuffle and shake the alphabet deck for random, delightful letter/word combinations.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Education  Publishing  Children

Pickup Lines on Your iPhone

Wingman is an iPhone app that generates pickup lines based on user input for several categories (Face/Body/Intelligence, etc). The application selects a pickup line based on the point value of each of the user selections. The Lite version randomizes the selections, not allowing user choice. In the full version, the user can take a photo or choose an image from their photo library to replace the "girl" image on the pickup line screen.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Games

Helping People on Dialysis

DaVita hired Art & Logic to build an iPhone version of their online Flash-based GFR Calculator. DaVita provides dialysis services for people diagnosed with chronic kidney failure. They also provide a number of online tools to assist people on dialysis. One of those tools is a Glomerular Filtration Rate calculator, otherwise known as the GFR Calculator. From their website, "Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is considered by medical professionals to be the best measure of kidney function. more...

DaVita hired Art & Logic to build an iPhone version of their online Flash-based GFR Calculator. DaVita provides dialysis services for people diagnosed with chronic kidney failure. They also provide a number of online tools to assist people on dialysis. One of those tools is a Glomerular Filtration Rate calculator, otherwise known as the GFR Calculator. From their website, "Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is considered by medical professionals to be the best measure of kidney function. Knowing someone's GFR lets them figure out their stage of kidney disease. Doctors will use this information to plan their patient's treatment."

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Medical

Designated Driver iPhone App

NeoWave Institute hired Art & Logic to develop one of the first socially responsible iPhone apps to allow a user to reach out to family, friends or a cab to request a ride when a designated driver becomes necessary. A user can configure Designated Driver to send messages to up to 5 recipients. Each message includes a call back number and a Google Map link to the user's location. Alternatively, the user can click a button to contact a national taxi service to request a taxi if friends are not available or not willing to come get them.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  XML  Google Maps  SMS  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Beverages

Education and Communication Apps

Mayer-Johnson hired Art & Logic to write a collection of engaging iOS apps for use by educators, speech-language pathologists and parents. The apps are built around Dynavox/Mayer-Johnson's library of thousands of PCS (Picture Communication Symbol) images, with high fidelity audio recordings of each word and phrase. Art & Logic drew on its expertise in mobile development to build each app as an exciting, interactive game or activity to help make learning fun for young children or individuals with speech and language challenges.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Education  Publishing  Games

iPhone Application for Golfers

PasturePool.com enables golfers to track their golf scores, handicap, greens in regulation, putts, up/down percentage, and more. The PasturePool native iPhone application allows PasturePool subscribers to record their golf rounds while offline, and then upload them to the PasturePool.com website where they are available for reporting and analysis. The application features course search, course database update, and both summary and detailed golf round entry. more...

PasturePool.com enables golfers to track their golf scores, handicap, greens in regulation, putts, up/down percentage, and more. The PasturePool native iPhone application allows PasturePool subscribers to record their golf rounds while offline, and then upload them to the PasturePool.com website where they are available for reporting and analysis. The application features course search, course database update, and both summary and detailed golf round entry. The detail entry mode features an 18-hole scorecard that lets the golfer enter hole-by-hole scores, statistics and notes. Users can call a selected golf course and load a Google map of the course in an embedded browser. An iPhone-optimized version of the online web application is also available in an embedded browser in case the golfer wants to enter his/her round data directly to the PasturePool.com website.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  XML  SQLite  Safari  WebKit  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Sports

Domain Registration & Tools for iPhone

EasyDNS Technologies hired Art & Logic to create a native iPhone version of their domain registration web site. Fetch DNS settings for a domain, query for IP addresses, and perform reverse lookups. It even has an handy "What is my IP?" function for your current network access point. It also works on your iPod touch.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  iPod touch  Networking

Pressor-dex Reference App for Emergency Medicine Physicians

A comprehensive therapeutic guide to the myriad of pressors, vasoactive drugs, continuous infusions, and other medications needed to treat the critically ill patient. Written by emergency medicine physicians for emergency medicine physicians, this indispensable handbook gives you concise tools for choosing the right medication and dosing regimen every time, even during the busiest of shifts.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Medical

An In-Field Solution, Literally

IPNI (International Plant Nutrition Institute) wanted to create a simple reference and education application to be used in fields around the world to assist their consultants in instructing farmers on proper plant nutrition and identifying core crop deficiencies. This iOS application displays images of various crop plants, common deficiencies and provides guideline for rectifying them.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  iPod touch  Nonprofit  Agriculture