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ABC Play School Play Time, developed for the ABC by Secret Lab

Developed by Secret Lab for the ABC, Play School Play Time for iPad has hit the App Store this week! Let us know what you think!

This app contains some of the most interesting and complex use of Core Animation that we've ever done, and we're proud of how it's turned out. You can grab it from the App Store here, if you're in Australia, or here, if you're elsewhere!

If you haven't seen the previous app that we built for ABC Play School, also check out Play School Art Maker (Australia/other).

Update! As of 25 September 2013, the Play School Play Time app hit Number 1 in the App Store!

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National Science Week 2013 app by Secret Lab

We're incredibly pleased to be involved with National Science Week in Australia again this year. After building an app for the Tasmanian events last year, we were asked to create an app for the whole of Australia this year.

National Science Week 2013 app by Secret Lab

The app is now available on the iTunes App Store. Check it out, let us know what you think, and don't forget to take a look through the fantastic events that are being run as part of National Science Week 2013!

If you're running an event and need an app, we'd love to help.

At OSCON this year we were interviewed by Rachel, Senior Editor for O'Reilly Media, about mobile game development and the state of the industry! We're working on some interested game development-related material at the moment, and can't wait to share them with you. In the mean time, check out the interview on YouTube:

We normally shy away from doing link posts on the blog, but these links were just so interesting/useful that we couldn't not share them:

• Android Fragmentation Visualised by OpenSignal
• Automatic web/app screenshots in realistic environments by PlaceIt from Breezi

We also ran our Android UX and development tutorial ("Level Up Your Apps: Mobile UX Design and Development") for the third year at OSCON! We had a great time presenting alongside our friend Chris Neugebauer (who devised much of the content).

Some links/information for those of you who are interested:

• Final APK (suitable for installing) of the OSCON 2013 app we built
• GitHub repository for the code from the tutorial
• The tags, corresponding in order to the start and finished states for the application: talk_listing_start, talk_listing_end, schedule_start, schedule_end, day_list_start, day_list_end, navigation_start, navigation_end, data_end, tabs_end, theme_start, theme_end, navigation_refresh, talk_listing_update, themeing_finished
• You can switch between these tags by using git reset --hard followed by git checkout and the name of the tag you want. Note that you will lose changes.

Slides are available on Speaker Deck:

Slides for OSCON 2013 Tutorial

If you have any questions or comments, please get in touch!

We've put a quick blog post about rotating an iOS UIView in 3D  on the O'Reilly Programming Blog. Check it out!