Android Billing Library: in-app billing made simple

Android Billing Library is an open-source Android library to work with Android Market’s in-app billing service.

The library provides high-level functions (as simply as requestPurchase(“android.example.purchased”)) for the full in-app billing specification, in addition to an obfuscated transaction database that is automatically populated and can be easily queried. The code also works as an example in-app billing implementation.

This is our third open-source contribution, with more to come shortly. If you’re interested in in-app billing, we invite you to fork the code on github and contribute with issues or pull requests.

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English Idioms Illustrated updated to celebrate its 50,000th download

To celebrate its 50,000th download, the fan-favorite English Idioms Illustrated app by Professor Potts and Robot Media was recently updated for iPhone and iPad.

The update includes a brand new strip by the Professor explaining his process (previewed above), as well as various usability and performance improvements both for the iPad and the iPhone version.

Jump on the English idioms bandwagon! English Idioms Illustrated is now available in the iTunes App Store, and will be soon released for Android. Join the official English Idioms Illustrated Facebook page to stay updated.

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The official app of the Spanish Association of Basketball Clubs

The Spanish Association of Basketball Clubs (ACB) released their official iPhone/Android app: ACB (powered by Orange). The project was joint development between Robot Media and Lavinia interactiva, sponsored by the telco operator Orange.

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Introducing Ethics - A graphic Guide for iPhone and iPad

Introducing Ethics - A graphic Guide is the first of a series of apps based on the Introducing series by UK publisher Icon Books. Developed by Robot Media and produced by Eldan Software, the app transforms the 174 page book into an interactive format enjoyable on iPhone or iPad, also featuring notes, comments and social sharing capabilities.

The app uses the ACV format to present the book into a look-and-feel tailor made for mobiles and tablets. Each page is broken down to be easily read on a smaller screen. All illustrations are animated to further drive the narrative, and to help clarify some very challenging ideas.

For those who prefer the original book format, the iPad version also includes Classic View, which presents the pages exactly as they appear in the print version. Rotating the iPad allows readers to view one page at a time in portrait, or two at a time in landscape.

Introducing Ethics - A graphic Guide is currently available in the iTunes App Store for $4.99. More platforms are in the works.

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ARA.CAT for iPhone

Catalan newspaper ARA worked with Robot Media to develop the iPhone app of the ara.cat website. ARA.CAT móbil includes all the news, videos and photo-galleries from the site optimized for viewing on mobiles devices.

Headlines are presented in a customizable front page which also includes local weather updates. Articles are categorized and can also be ordered by editorial, popularity and date.

Readers can mark articles as favorites as well as sharing them through their social networks. Favorites are also available for offline reading.

ARA.CAT móbil now available for free in the iTunes App Store. An Android version is also available.

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Se Busca Ninja Android/iOS en Barcelona

Esta oferta se ha cerrado. Visita ¡Trabaja con Nosotros! para otras ofertas similares.

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Android/iOS Ninja Wanted in Barcelona

This job offer is no longer open. Please visit our We’re Hiring! page for similar job offers.

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How to create an Amazon EC2 instance with Apache, PHP and MySQL (LAMP)

At Robot Media we want to spend as little time as possible worrying about anything that isn’t mobile or tablet related. That is one of the reasons why we use Amazon EC2 -and Amazon AWS in general- for the backend components of our apps.

In this tutorial we will show you how to set up an Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instance with Apache, PHP and MySQL (also known as LAMP), which should be enough to host a simple dynamic web site.

Some familiarity with Amazon AWS and LAMP is assumed; you can adquire the former from the book Host Your Web Site On The Cloud: Amazon Web Services Made Easy.

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How to find the serial number of your Kindle 3?

Your Kindle 3 serial number can be found in Settings, under Device Info. Press Home, then Menu, the choose Settings.

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RMImageScroller: an open-source image scroller for iOS

RMImageScroller is an open-source image scroller by Robot Media for iOS 3.2 or later. We designed it to show the thumbnails of a sequential image viewer , both on iPhone and iPad and all screen orientations.

Features:

  • Images are displayed in an horizontal scrollView.
  • Only visible images are loaded in memory.
  • Optional page numbers (or titles) and slider.
  • Padding, separator size and image size can be configured.
  • Spread mode for e-book viewers.

The source code is available on github licensed under the LGPL. We invite you to fork it and use it your iOS app. If you do, please let us know how we can improve it.

RMImageScroller is our second open-source contribution. More will follow shortly.

Thumbnails from the most excellent comic Bear Beater Bunyan by Josh Hechinger & Jorge F. Muñoz.

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