Xpressions iPhone/iPod app

Smartphones have made a deep impact on our lives. Applications not only provide services to the users or entertain them, but connect to them at an emotional level. At Xebia we strive to build apps that connect with users. Our first step in this direction was Talking Photos, an app which enables a user to [...]

Comparing AmCharts with Flex Charts

In this blog, i will share my experiences with AmCharts (Third party API for Flex Charting). The requirement was to show a dataset in two different views, first was a tabular view and second was the chart view. For tabular view we simply used the Flex datagrid. For showing the same dataset in charts, we [...]

Building Editable GridView for iPhone apps

Grid Views are powerful way of presenting data to users that won’t be as appealing if presented in tabular form. For instance, the default home screen of iPhone looks elegant when presented in grid view. Similar case can occur in your application as well. As for iPhone, sdk doesn’t provide any grid view implementation similar [...]

Using Annotations To Inject – Metadata Driven AOP

New releases of compilers are getting more and more cautious on taking off the pain of too much verbosity and making the code look much more cleaner, understandable and easily modifiable. A major step that has been taken in Java side is introduction of annotations. Now that they have introduced annotations, plugging in an annotation [...]

Integrate Wolfram|Alpha capabilities in your Application

Wolfram|Alpha is a well known computation knowledge engine. Recently with the release of it’s API version 2.0 it’s offering free development account with up to 2000 API calls per month. The API is implemented in a standard REST protocol using HTTP GET method.