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We have designed a course on JavaScript RIA development for Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. These post tells the story of our efforts trying to wrench advanced JavaScript theory into the conservative world of Academia.

The main focus of Krawaller is to utilize our existing web technology skills in creating smartphone applications, mainly targetting iPhone and Android.

In our never-ending quest to better ourselves in the frontend field, we rely quite heavily on our well-stocked bookshelf. Here we share reviews of our latest acquisitions!

Our first major foray into mobile applications was Golingo, a lovingly crafted word game made with web technologies. Read up below on what the game is about, the creation, and where to snoop through the open-sourced (!) code.

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Titanium app for explaining layout mechanisms

Wrapping our brains around Titanium View layouts!

During a recent app project, I felt constantly hampered by not having a strong enough ninjutsu understanding of laying out things in a Titanium app. How does horizontal and vertical layout actually work? What's the difference between a View, a ScrollView and a ScrollableView? When having too much content to show on screen, do I want the parent or child to scroll? What happens when I have a scrolling...

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Titanium application structure – learning from Tweetanium

Struct - learning from Tweetanium regarding application structure best practices!

Up until recently, like so many other lost souls, we've followed the same Titanium application structure as Appcelerator's KitchenSink application. In this paradigm, when you want to open a new window, you'd typically do something like this:

Inside somefile.js the window would be populated with controls, using the Ti.UI.currentWindow reference. We can access the...

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Releasing Auktionera, a Tradera iPhone app

Releasing Auktionera, our iPhone app for the Swedish auction site Tradera!

Update: As Tradera finally saw sense and ported the eBay app, we're pulling the Auktionera app from the App Store! One has to choose one's battles...

As Jacob wrote the Livetanium post 2 months ago, I remember us vowing to keep up the pace in the content flow to this blog. That was, as stated, two months ago, and this place has been tumbleweeding ever since. Epic fail...

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Releasing Tristania fan app

The Tristania iPhone app is now finally finished and available in the App Store!

We are proud to announce the release of our latest creation; the official app for the magnificent metal band Tristania!

Features:

To get a feel for the app, please peruse the screenshots below:

(download)

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Systemet

Announcing the release of our new app! Behind-the-scenes bean spillage to follow.

Yeay!

We just wanted to let you know that our third app, Systemet, just went live in the App Store. It's an inofficial guide to the Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly Systembolaget, and it lets you:

Search for nearby stores
See store opening times
Call the store directly
Search for products
Sort by name, price and other properties
See product info...

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Krawaller proudly presents Golingo

Making our first foray into the app store - Golingo is now released! Read all about it!

Hey folks!

We're very proud to announce our first app on the App Store - Golingo.

What started out as a simple board game in a cosy café is now a full featured and oh-so-funny digital adaption of the very same. OK, so it's a nice app and all, but what is there to be excited about for a web dev as yourself? Here's a list for ya:

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Titanium app for explaining layout mechanisms

Titanium application structure – learning from Tweetanium

Releasing Auktionera, a Tradera iPhone app

Releasing Tristania fan app

Features:

Systemet

Krawaller proudly presents Golingo