Mobile Couch

Creating great apps for Apple’s mobile devices.

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18: The Cache They’ve Got in Their Pocket

Published 1 October 2013 • 59 minutes, 58 seconds

Jake and Jelly are joined by Stuart Hall, co-founder of Discovr and creator of AppBot to discuss the story behind his Seven Minute Workout experiment, but not before they followup on health and NSURLCache (not to mention caching in general). They discuss the mindsets of people who buy apps when they”re dropped to free, adding in-app purchases to apps, and the differences between launching apps now, compared to the early days.

17: Infinitely Slow Acid Man

Published 17 September 2013 • 55 minutes, 12 seconds

More Xamarin talk, as the boys discuss its cross-platform benefits, the impressive IDE, and how it compares to native cross-platform development; Jake requests help with a problem he”s having with collection views in Xamarin; staying healthy when you spend so much time hunched over a keyboard, while also improving your workflow; and what the best practice is for caching downloaded data.

16: Romeo Was a Drunk

Published 3 September 2013 • 58 minutes, 16 seconds

With his interest officially piqued, Jake is looking into Xamarin, and so the boys discuss making apps in alternative languages and the pros and cons attached to that. Afterwards, they share their origin stories, including Jake’s desire to be an actor, Jelly’s short-lived stint in theatre, Ben’s dream of being a pilot, and why freelance work is so dang addictive. Finally, they discuss the shortcomings of UICollectionView and what the best way of containing “hack” code is.

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Ben Trengrove

When it turned out that the life of an airline pilot wasn’t going to cut it, Ben turned to developing software. Originally from New Zealand, Ben now lives in Canberra, and works as part of Stripy Sock.

Ben has developed everything from educational games (such as Shiny Things’ Quick Math) to simple utilities for pilots. He has a head for algorithms, a penchant for toying with low-level code, and acts as the couch’s resident Android expert.

Sometimes he wishes he was flying instead.

Daniel “Jelly” Farrelly

The creator of GIFwrapped, as well as several open-source libraries, Jelly spends his days as an independent developer, moonlighting as a consultant on occasions where it suits his whims.

Having come from a design and illustration background, Jelly’s skill set lies in creating user interfaces, finding ways to interact with and delight the users of his apps, as well as coming up with truly awful names for his open-source libraries.

That, and his terrible jokes.