The Breakroom
Category: Development
Expanding the Twemoji Universe
March 7, 2016
Over the past few years the popularity of emoji has steadily grown. Heck, you can even send your sweetheart a kissy face emoji pillow as a gift! Over a year ago, we were pleased to be able to contribute to the ever-growing popularity of emoji as we helped Twitter design and develop their own unique […]
The New Favicon
November 4, 2015
The recent release of Safari 9.0 brought a great new feature: pinned tabs. These tabs are locked to the lefthand side of your tab bar and stay in place, even when you open a new window or relaunch the browser. The default behavior is to display the first letter of the site’s name on a […]
Cultivating a New Willow App for iOS
October 20, 2015
Evolving a popular app from version 1 to version 2 is always a challenge, and so it was with the recent update of the Willow app for iOS. Willow connects users around the world via meaningful conversations, posed by simple questions. The Iconfactory was charged with updating the popular 1.0 version of Willow, modernizing both […]
Twitterrific 5.13.2 Lands with iOS9 Improvements
September 21, 2015
Ollie makes himself at home in iOS 9 with the latest release of Twitterrific. Version 5.13.2 now supports iPad split-screen and slide-over multitasking in iOS 9. We’ve also added the option to reply to mentions and DMs directly from push notification banners in iOS 9’s notification center. Other new features include the ability to send […]
xScope on the Big Screen
September 15, 2015
As every iPhone developer knows, you don’t really understand an app’s design until you see it on the device. We’ve all been fooled by text or controls that looked just fine on your Mac’s simulator, but elicited “What the heck were we thinking?” when run on the phone. With the release of tvOS, there’s going […]
Twitterrific 5.13.1 Fixes Accessibility Bugs, Improves General Usability
September 1, 2015
Today’s release of Twitterrific v 5.13.1 is an incremental but important one that fixes several annoying bugs and improves overall usability of the iOS app.
Yep
August 6, 2015
While we may not have contributed in our normal way, we were happy to learn today that some of our work made it into Windows 10! Windows Bridge for iOS is an open source project that makes it easier for iOS developers to target their products to the new operating system from Redmond. This work […]
Aligning UI with xScope’s Overlay Tool
June 25, 2015
xScope’s Overlay tool can make your life considerably easier when coding up pixel perfect designs for iOS.
xScope and Apple Watch
April 24, 2015
xScope has been updated with support for Apple Watch in both the iOS and Mac App Stores.
