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In todays post I’d like to bring up the topic on how to deal with app reviews. The background for this is the first app I released, a few years ago, called myRemote. This is an app, which at the time, was created primarily because I wanted to control my Onkyo receiver with my Surface RT. As you probably can guess, it was created for Windows RT, and before I really knew too much of C# and .NET, so it was a bit of guesswork. When I released it, it basically was an app to send commands to the receiver, it did not read any data from it. ...

On some of the code I work on at a daily basis, I have noticed that IoC and dependency injection is used. When I first saw these concepts, I just did a quick read to see what it was, but didn’t really put much energy into it, as it was not something I directly used myself. This did eventually change, and I were assigned a task, which would include using an IoC container, and as such I figured it was time to try to understand what was going on. So in this post I will give a short summary of what I have learnt so far, and maybe to confirm or correct my understanding of this subject. ...

This weekend I have been participating in a virtual hackathon, hosted by Koding.com. I teamed up with my sister, her boyfriend and two class mates of his, all which are computer engineering students. The task at the hackathon was to create a web app in one of three categories; data visualization, productivity or games. We chose productivity. As a part of this hackathon we were given a virtual machine at koding.com, basically a machine with 1GB ram, 1 core CPU and 25GB HD. As the end result of the hackathon was supposed to be a web app of some sort, and since my teammates is mostly familiar with Java, we decided to create something using Play Framework. ...

Yesterday I read an article from Jose Gonzalez, over at Mind Body Soul Developer, called “The Art of Doing Nothing“, which brings up an important subject; Resting and relaxing. I am not going to talk a lot on this, as I think Jose has done a good job describing all about it in his post. In essence the post covers his experience of having a bad day and how he deals with it. In general, when you’re having a bad day (or a day with no motivation) you should really push on, so you get your work done. Sometimes it is however, useful to just relax and do something else that day instead of pushing yourself. In the end, we’re all just humans, and if you keep pushing yourself without ever taking breaks, even on bad days, you will eventually crash. I think that could be worse than having some time off from time to time. ...

In this last post in this series we will take a look at the process of releasing an app for iOS, after development with Xamarin Forms. Over the last few weeks I have gone through this process for Windows Phone and for Android. In terms of what you, as the developer, need to do, the release process for iOS is not much different than the others, especially for Android. You need to fill in information on the app, build the app for release and upload the app. Apple does have their own quality control though, so when you submit the app to release, it will take some time before it’s released, since they have someone testing all app submissions. When you think about the amount of app submissions they receive each month, you can imagine it may take some time to get through this phase. So please be sure you have filled out everything correctly – it is rather annoying to wait a few days, up to a few weeks, just to have your app rejected due to silly mistakes. ...