iGevalt is beautiful Chanukah dreidel game with realistic 3D graphics and sounds. You spin the dreidel with a swipe of your finger, or by using two fingers and “spinning” it.  When it lands, a popup appears that shows you what you got and what to do with the “pot” when you’re playing the dreidel game. iGevalt is available now for the iPhone and iPod touch for $.99 from the app store.

iPhone App Created In Just 6 Days

It’s a miracle! ArcTouch created iGevalt in just 6 days! And on the 7th day… we submitted it to the Apple app store!  Just in time for Chanukah.

Seriously, this app was created in exactly one week, but still has the polish and refinement you can expect from the iPhone apps that ArcTouch creates. We used a 3D modeling tool to create the stunning dreidel graphics, including the shadows and reflections, and recorded a series of audio clips from children playing an actual dreidel game for the realistic sounds during play.

The experts agree, iGevalt is the best dreidel app available for the iPhone and iPod. Here’s some proof:

It’s super fun! My dad doesn’t like me getting chocolate fingers all over the phone’s screen though.  (Jason, 5)

Oy vey. This is about as authentic as you can get without the real thing… and I should know!  Now can you use that GPS to help me find some good latkes? (Rabbi Abraham Westheim, 62)

Looking for an app of your own? Contact us for a free estimate. ArcTouch offers complete iPhone application development and programming services.

For those who were wondering, there’s a wide variety of ways to spell Chanukah and Dreidel. Here’s the most common variations: Chanukah, Hanukah, Chanukkah, Hanukkah, Dreidel, Dreydel, Draydel.

Meet Captain ArcTouch, digital defender of justice, and his super apps! Captain ArcTouch is an iPhone comic book app developed by ArcTouch.

To Install The Captain ArcTouch Web App:

1. From the Safari app on your iPhone or iPod touch, visit the Captain ArcTouch install page (http://arctouch.com/captain). If you go there from your Mac or PC this will not work – you must visit from your phone.
2. Follow the instructions you see on-screen to add the app directly to your phone. Web Apps do not need to be downloaded to iTunes first.

Web Apps Delivers Full Functionality In A Browser

Captain ArcTouch is a Web App. Web apps are delivered over the Internet from a web site to an iPhone or iPod touch through Safari web browser. Unlike traditional mobile web sites, however, which are simplified web pages created for viewing over a the browser on the phone, Web Apps are very similar to the graphically rich and interactive “native apps” delivered through the iTunes App Store.

For example, Web Apps can contain complex animations and transitions through the capabilities of modern HTML5 and CSS. Web Apps can also take advantage of unique functionality of the hardware device, such as the GPS, acceleromoter and swipe and pinch/zoom gestures. Web Apps can store data locally on the phone, and can even be launched right from the phone’s home screen into full screen (without Safari’s navigation buttons) like our very own Captain ArcTouch web app. Best of all, Web Apps can be deployed quickly and easily right from your own web site and can be updated just as easily too.

Web Apps are also more portable to other platforms, since the Android, BlackBerry and the Pre all have some support for modern HTML5 and CSS.

Apps Make You Super. We Make Super Apps.

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CHROME from American National Property And Casualty Companies (ANPAC) is the first app designed exclusively for classic car & specialty car fans. CHROME is available now for the iPhone and iPod touch for $1.99 from the app store.

Fun And Useful Features For Car Enthusiasts

Instead of carrying a Blue Book, Black Book, or relying on limited online information, CHROME users can:

• Search a real-time price guide data for more than 40,000 models of vehicles from 1899 through the 1990s provided by Old Cars Price Guide.
• See a calendar of upcoming car show information searchable by name and location. Get directions or tell a friend about an event by email.
• Journal your road trips as you travel using GPS, notes and photos. Share your trips by email or post to Facebook.
• View and share photos by make and model for some of the best custom and original rides from shows across the country.
• Browse images of show-quality hot rods and classic cars featured in the 2009 and 2010 ANPAC Chrome calendars.

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ArcTouch iPhone App Developer Snapshot

ANPAC chose ArcTouch to create a compelling application to reinforce their brand position as the trusted source of insurance and customer care for fans of classic cars & specialty cars.

Featured Technologies ArcTouch Implemented:

• REST web services to access price guide, car shows and car photos
• GPS, MapKit & location services
• Facebook integration to share trip photos
• Core Data and SQLite
• In-app analytics to measure usage patterns

ArcTouch offers complete iPhone application development and programming services.

The iChemoDiary from Merck is a personal medical diary to record your chemotherapy schedule, treatments, medication and symptoms such as nausea and vomiting. The iChemoDiary is available now for the iPhone and iPod touch from the app store.

iChemoDiary App Empowers Patients To Manage Their Medical Care

Patients use the iChemoDiary app to track their experience during chemotherapy and communicate with their care givers, empowering them to take an active role in their medical care. With both quick-entry and expandable options, no details are lost, and multiple reporting options make it easy to share the information with your doctor or nurse.

Create a profile for yourself or another person with current chemotherapies and medications.

• Touch a day of the week to record chemotherapy, medications, and symptoms. A dot on a calendar day indicates information has been recorded.
• Quickly and easily record severity of side-effects and other symptoms.
• See charts and reports of your chemotherapy experience on a daily or weekly basis.
• Email reports to family and caregivers directly from your iPhone or iPod touch.

ArcTouch iPhone App Developer Snapshot

ArcTouch was hired to create a best-in-class application that is easy to use for patients and adheres to the quality standards of the pharmaceutical and medical industry, and the FDA.

Thanks for being great partners and for all the help and suggestions you offered. And, of course, you guys did an amazing job building the app.

Featured Technologies ArcTouch Implemented:

• Custom Calendar Control
• Custom Graphing Library For Data Visualization
• Core Data and SQLite

ArcTouch offers complete iPhone application development and programming services.

ArcTouch Exhibiting At Ad:Tech

Want to talk about your app idea in person? Come meet us in the Big Apple – New York City! We’re exhibiting at ad:tech, the premier conference for advertising, marketing & technology convergence, on November 4th and 5th. Join us in the MobileMix area – the showcase for leading mobile technology companies. We’ll show you some of the custom apps we’ve recently developed for companies, and help you learn how we can bring your app from raw idea to launch in the app stores.

ArcTouch CTO To Share App Development Best Practices

Also, Eric Shapiro, ArcTouch CTO, will be leading a live session about some “best practices” for app development. Eric, a former engineering and product development lead at Apple, Macrovision & Accenture, and founder of Zero G Software & Caustic Graphics, will share information on the current landscape and exciting possibilities of mobile apps. He will offer insight into planning time and costs, and guidence on how to be ultimately successful at expanding your products & services into the mobile app world with killer apps for iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. The session will end with Q&A.

See the ad:tech New York website for more event details. Register for the Full Conference as our special guest with code: 20EXNY9 and get 20% off the online price.

See you in New York!

We’re pleased to announce that Tip ‘em! – the tip calculator and check splitter for the Palm Pre – has been selected by Palm to be one of only 50 apps included as initial members of the Palm App Catalog. Starting today, Tip ‘em! is available through the App Catalog app on the Pre. Tip ‘em! helps you quickly and accurately determine the tip amount on a check and split the bill between multiple diners. It makes it easy to exclude items from the tip calculation, such as drinks and tax.

The Official Palm Blog writes…

Tip ’em! not only crunches through the calculations you need to figure out the appropriate tip, but adds some nice coffee-stained touches of realism to the experience.

Fun and Functional Design

Tip calculators in general are nothing new, but this one raises the bar on both functionality and design. ArcTouch developed Tip ‘em! for Azoombi and combined a custom background graphic (a retro “diner” check complete with a coffee stain) and seamlessly blended in the native touch controls of the Pre for the “picker” lists for tip amount, rounding and split amount.

 

Key Features Of Tip ‘em! Tip Calculator For Pre

• Easily enter the total bill using the numeric keypad
• Select a tip amount between 0% and 30%
• Split the check between 2 and 10 people (optional)
• Exclude tax and drinks from the tip calculation (optional)
• Round the tip or the total to make splitting the bill easier (optional)
• Rich retro graphical interface

The latest IDC smart phone market report claims that although the iPhone receives the most visiblity and attention in the marketplace, the new iPhone 3G S came in second to BlackBerry’s Curve as the phone most bought in America in the second quarter of 2009. In fact, according to IDC, BlackBerry smart phones outsold all iPhones.

IDC’s top ten selling smart phones in America in 2Q 2009:

1. BlackBerry Curve (BlackBerry OS)
2. iPhone 3G S (iPhone OS)
3. BlackBerry Pearl (BlackBerry OS)
4. iPhone 3G (iPhone OS)
5. BlackBerry Bold (BlackBerry OS)
6. BlackBerry Storm (BlackBerry OS)
7. HTC T-Mobile G1 (Android OS)
8. Palm Pre (webOS)
9. HTC Touch Pro (Windows Mobile)
10. HTC Touch Diamond (Windows Mobile)

BlackBerry OS based smart phones occupied 4 of the 6 spots in the top 10 list. If you’re thinking of developing a custom app, make sure to include BlackBerry development in your plans. We are experienced BlackBerry developers who can help you bring your app to this platform.

The Google Android mobile platform global market share has been growing 25% month over month and is now over 5% worldwide, exceeding that of Windows Mobile, according to the AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. Google has been steadily adding additional handset manufacturers and with nearly two dozen new Android based smart phones expected in the next year, Android is likely to continue its ascent and claim a top spot as a leading mobile platform.

This is a great opportunity for you to be part of this Android growth curve now by including an Android version in your application product plans. Hire our Android programmers who have over 10 years in Java development experience and are expert custom Android application developers.

BlackBerry RIM Top Smart Phone For Business Users

NPD recently reported that the BlackBerry Curve outsold the iPhone in the first quarter to become the best-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. RIM, which already leads the corporate smartphone market in the United States, also had three of the top five best-selling consumer smartphones in the period, with the Storm at No. 3 and the Pearl at No. 4, NPD said.

The BlackBerry is THE dominant smart phone for businesses and is an ideal way for you to put your products and services in front of corporate users. Make sure to include BlackBerry apps in your mobile strategy. Hire our BlackBerry developers who have over 10 years in Java mobile development experience and are expert custom BlackBerry application programmers.

Apple iPhone OS Market Exceeds 45 Million Devices

Based on Apple’s announcement during their July quarterly earnings that 45 million iPhone OS devices have been sold worldwide, AdMob estimates that there have been over 13 million iPhone and over 12 million iPod touch units sold to date in the United States, compared to 1.9 and 1.8 million in Germany and France respectively. 54% of the world’s iPhones and 60% of its iPod touches are in the United States. This percentage has declined from 61% in January 2009, signaling that international user growth has outpaced US user growth. As a region, Western Europe has a 26% share of iPhone and iPod touch users. The worldwide ratio of iPhones to iPod touches is roughly 2 to 1.  In other words, iPhones comprised 68% of worldwide iPhone OS based devices and the iPod touch makes up the other 32%.

With over 45 million devices you can’t beat the iPhone and iPod touch for your mobile application initiatives. We can take your raw idea and turn it into a best-in-class finished app and help you deliver it through all the app stores worldwide. Hire our iPhone programmers who are expert custom iPhone application developers.

TechCrunch reports a story of a top iPhone app developer that was losing $2,000 a day in ad revenue for their app because they made a simple software programming mistake that could have easily been caught by basic testing.

Test Driven Development

Our programmers use test driven development to ensure the highest quality code in our iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Pre apps. They create automated unit tests that define the expected results of the application functionality BEFORE writing any software code.

Test driven development follows a simple process:

1. Write the tests. Tests are written before the functionality being tested. This helps ensure that the application is written for testability, since developers must consider how to test the application from the outset, rather than worrying about it later. It also ensures that tests for every feature will be written. Other developers using traditional development methods choose to code the features first, but then inevitably under time pressure to work on the next feature neglect testing entirely. Don’t let your apps fall into that trap – demand that any app developer you hire uses test driven development.
2. Fail the tests. All tests fail first because no software code has been written by the programmer. This ensures that the test has been written correctly. Once this is shown, the underlying functionality can be implemented.
3. Write some code and rerun the tests. The next step is to write some code that will cause the test to pass. Now the code can be cleaned up as necessary and re-run against the tests, a process known as refactoring.

Test-driven development constantly repeats the process of adding test cases that fail, passing them, and refactoring. Passing the tests confirms correct application functionality as developers evolve and refactor the code. Our programmers use automated test frameworks to re-run the complete set of tests whenever new code is introduced, ensuring that the previously completed code is still fully functional without bugs.

Test Driven Development Benefits

Studies have shown that test driven development has numerous benefits and leads to better software.

• Programmers are better able to focus and are more productive.
• By writing tests before coding, developers show they clearly understand the feature’s specifications and requirements.
• Errors introduced during the development cycle are discovered earlier and easier to rectify.
• Software is designed simpler and is more modularlized, flexible and extensible.
• No code is written beyond what is needed to pass a test.
• Finished software has better quality and is more stable.

ArcTouch Bug Free Guarantee

We’re so confident that our Quantum Development process and our test driven development results in superior quality apps that we offer a bug free guarantee. If you discover a problem anytime after we’ve delivered your app to you we’ll fix it for free. Guaranteed.

If you’re considering hiring an iPhone developer, an Android developer, a BlackBerry developer, or a Pre developer, make sure they use test driven development and offer you a bug free guarantee. If not, their mistakes may cost you far more than your original cost to develop the mobile app in the first place.

Today Beam It! was accepted into the app store and we couldn’t be happier. Now you can effortlessly beam your contact info to another iPhone or iPod Touch user. Those “oohs” and “ahhs” that you’re hearing today are not from the July 4th fireworks, but from Beam It! users marveling at the simplicity of the spontaneous peer-to-peer contact sharing over wireless Bluetooth.

Spread the news and tell everyone to get Beam It! today.

Beam It! Source Code Still Available For Game Kit Developers

ArcTouch is still offering the full Beam It! source code with free usage rights for iPhone developers to add Game Kit peer-to-peer capabilities from iPhone OS 3.0 to your own apps.