MindSea Digital Health Blog
News and insights on mobile app development, design, and digital healthcare
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What Is A Hackathon & Why Should Your Startup Host One?
At MindSea, we have a passion for creating things. It was an honour to share this passion with others during the MindSea Hackathon this past weekend. Read more
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5 Reasons To Develop Your App for iOS 8
iOS 8 is scheduled to be released this Fall, and we’re excited about the new app development possibilities it brings. Some of our favourites include inter-app communication, home automation, health management, and new location-based services. As of iOS 8, Apple is also giving app developers access to App Store sales and visitor analytics through iTunes Read more
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Chronicle Herald App Wins Second Place in INMA Global Competition
The International News Media Association (INMA) awarded The Chronicle Herald app a second-place finish in their global competition on Tuesday night. The awards ceremony was held in San Francisco during the 84th Annual INMA World Congress. Read more
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Apple Names Chronicle Herald in App Store ‘Best of 2013’ List
Newspaper App by MindSea Ranks Alongside NY Times & Rolling Stone Apps Christmas has come early to our team and The Chronicle Herald! Apple has recognized the new Chronicle Herald App in the App Store “Best of 2013” list. This was a great surprise as we officially launched the app just 7 days ago. Redesigned Read more
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MindSea Mobile Hackathon
Interested in building mobile applications? Join us for a day of creativity and learning! Developers, designers, and creators of all stripes are welcome. We want to share our enthusiasm for building apps in a low-stress, judgement-free environment. Everyone with an interest is welcome, regardless of skill level or experience. The event will take place at Read more
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Cross-platform App design for iOS and Android
MindSea recently developed the East Coast Music Association (ECMA) app that showcases East Coast artists and the Music Week festival. The timeline meant we had to build versions simultaneously for both iPhone and Android. We’ve ported apps from iPhone to Android before, which usually means trying to shoehorn an existing structure to work on another platform. Read more
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App Localization Case Study: Etchings Goes Global
In December 2012 we released Etchings 1.5, which includes translations for 7 additional languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. It’s been out for a few months now, giving us a chance to reflect on our effort and observe the results. Read more
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Mobile App Marketing Case Study: Etchings Instagram Contest
Recently we ran an Instagram contest to promote our Etchings App for iPhone and iPad. To help us run the contest we used Statigram which is an Instagram web viewer and social analytics tool for contests & community management. Statigram has over 3.1 million users so their contest platform seemed to be the best way Read more
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How To One-Up Your Event Marketing With A Mobile App
In partnership with the East Coast Music Association, MindSea designed and launched an innovative app for iPhone and Android music fans. Co-written by both teams, this case study describes what we did together. Read more
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Downscaling Huge ALAssets Without Fear of SIGKILL
With the latest release of Etchings, we wanted to support high resolution output. This means reading high-res versions of images from the camera roll, but not blowing our memory limits if the user selects a 30MP monstrosity. We came up with a way to get a smaller version of any ALAsset without having to first Read more