Alterplay

It’s well-known how important and useful application prototypes are. Many of them are penciled on paper sheets, many are created in the graphic editors, but if you create prototypes for your iPhone or iPad in the Axure, as we do, then our iOS Wireframe widgets library will be very helpful. Despite the fact that it is only the first version of the library, it does a lot of wonderful things:

• Full-screen interactive application prototypes for the iPhone and iPad, which are run from the Home Screen (springboard) of your device
• Beautiful custom icon of an application prototype
• Library of standard UI parts, most of which are interactive
• Modal and popover windows
• Different scrollable lists
• Interactive Google Map with pins
• All parts are easily scaled and configured
• A detail usage instructions

Instructions and download page.

In Alterplay we are happy to use this library in all our projects and we plan to develop and support it. Wish a successful prototyping! ;)

We are glad to present you our brand–new app for the iPhone — Jeans Currency Converter Know Rates. We’ve been working hard for a few months to make each pixel perfect. We’re trying to make each function as simple as possible.

So now we believe Know Rates is the best because:
✔ Absolutely simple to use
✔ Awesome design and sound effects
✔ Horizontal express mode
✔ 161 world currencies
✔ Skins for everyday

Download for FREE!

We continue to grow in design. A special section with our design works for mobile apps will be opened on the main website soon. In the meantime want to show the freshly popular video player design for the iPhone and theiPad - OPlayer 2.0 и OPlayer HD 2.0.

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Last year we made a design for the FastPDFKit team. We were playing with its component and everything was good except appearance. So we made it looks better for our self and offer the solution to MobFarm. Since that FastPDFKit has nice appearance: both iPhone and iPad.

Our design team is growing. Now we’re opened to design your the most interesting world changing apps.

A few months ago I suggested ShareKit community to create ShareKit 2.0. The only reason was ShareKit is highly demanded and the original author had no time to develop the project — last commit by Nov 22 2010. There are 289 forks and tens of ignored pull requests and many–many issues generated by community. All these had proved situation was deadlocked.

So I posted a suggestion and sent a few private messages to most active participants. Fortunately some good people found idea worthy. ShareKit/ShareKit was found as a community and just gathered core team defined Policies.

4 months later. Read more…

We’ve released a tiny app. It’s based on of multiple-choice questions designed to revise your knowledge and readiness to pass ACCA F3 Financial Accounting. You will get feedback on your answers, breakdown of your score and process of your revision.

The main target is to increase your chance of success on yours force coming exam. Tests are provided by our ACCA certified friend.

It’s an experiment app in two senses. Firstly we tried our force to design and develop very quickly and efficiently. I’d say it’s achieved by 80%. Secondly we want to get a proof of concept. So if the hypothesis confirmed, we will develop a set of applications in more interesting forms.

Good luck on your exams!

We want to keep all users and readers in one place and since Blogger doesn’t support subdirectory publishing we’ve moved to WordPress.

To make it easy for readers and save Google traffic and references we’ve made 301 redirections for all previous posts. Also we’ve updated RSS channel so I hope to see this post in my Google Reader soon.

So our website and both russian blog and this one are in one place from now.

We were busy last months but will try to post more useful info next year. I’d like to see more code snippets shared, and maybe 3d party libs and open source libs review.

We’ve finally started blogging in Russian.

And the second reason is we’re hiring, as you’d probably know. And the person we’re searching for has to speak russian. So it’s quite weird to hire a russian guy by publishing vacancy on english, isn’t it.