Spot Specific is a web application with a desktop-class user interface. What does that mean? Well, instead of spending time negotiating forms, clicking your browser’s ‘back’ button and following links, you get a real set of windows, widgets, buttons and toolbars to help you compose your next hit multiplatform mobile app. We know that all [...]
Hi there! Gosh, our code-monkeys have been busy. They’ve only gone and produced yet another new release of Spot Specific. This time, we’re pleased to announce a brand new widget, and something that should save you a lot of time when assembling apps. It’s called the List Menu widget, and it makes it really easy [...]
Localising your application is one of the most important parts of the development process. Luckily, the Cappuccino framework, which we use extensively at Spot Specific, has the hooks to enable efficient translations, which we’ve adapted slightly. The Cappuccino stack, like Apple’s Xcode, generates Localizable.strings files for every language variant from the application’s source code. The [...]
Good Saturday to you, loyal app makers Spot Specific is already changing the way people make apps: from a single interface, you can design, test and publish an app without knowing any coding languages. At the same time, it’s enabling those versed in HTML5 and JavaScript to create highly functional, beautiful apps more quickly than [...]
It’s been a couple of weeks since our last release. But as you’ll have gathered by now, the pace of development here at Spot Specific Towers is pretty fast. So today, we’re proud to present Spot Specific Apps a la Carte 0.87. Like prior releases, this one has been substantially informed by user feedback. There [...]
Hello folks, Today we’re delighted to announce a new revision of Spot Specific Apps a la Carte, version 0.85. We’re still in a beta phase, but are pretty excited about what this release brings – in particular, a completely revamped device simulator, and a slew of usability improvements. The simulator The simulator is a key [...]
Hi all, Spot Specific is undergoing rapid revision through its beta phase, thanks in no small part to our merry band of Community members, who have been making suggestions for future releases and helping us bring the banhammer down on bugs they find. We pushed out a major revision on Tuesday, including the public availability [...]
It’s been a hectic month at Spot Specific Towers, what with our public beta launch and a little thing called Mobile World Congress coinciding in the middle of the month. It’s also been a hugely exciting time for us: after a lot of hard work from our development team, it’s great to finally see the [...]
Hopefully you will have noticed that Spot Specific is hiring. In particular, we’re looking for developers who are highly experienced* in Objective C, Objective J and JavaScript. Spot Specific is the online service for straightforward development of applications for mobile devices. Our suite of tools allows customers to cut development time and costs, ameliorate the [...]
