On Thursday, May 8, ReignDesign will host the next CocoaHeads! CocoaHeads is a monthly meetup group for iOS developers and designers in Shanghai. The theme will be Beacons and Bacon. We can guarantee interesting talks about iBeacons, but there may be a shortage of the food of the gods. Spaces are limited, so if you …
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Making your own Shanghai street sign
At my recent engagement party we had designed some personalised Shanghai street signs! A lot of people asked me how to make one, so I thought I’d provide a tutorial. If you’re not familiar with Shanghai street signs, this is how modern signs look! You’ll still find older green signs around Shanghai, but all signs in …
Helping Local Entrepreneurs
LeiPing, originally from Sichuan, has been successfully running her own business as a masseuse and skincare specialist here in Shanghai for over 8 years. How can we help small-size entrepreneurs in a way that enables them and their business to reach out to new markets? We took a short break from our usual work and designed a …
¡Tweetfeet no es Fácil!
Han visto este espectacular comercial de Carozzi? ¡Sí, ese teclado es real! y ReignDesign, tu empresa favorita en la creación de aplicaciones móviles, desarrolló las versiones móviles de TweetFeet. !Es tiempo de terminar con el sedentarismo! Párate y twitea con tus pies. La entretenida idea de escribir un tweet con los pies viene de la agencia BBDO. …
Tweetfeet is No Easy Feat!
Have you seen this amazing commercial from Carozzi, the Chilean pasta company? Yes, that’s a real keyboard! And ReignDesign, your favorite app company, developed the mobile versions of Tweetfeet. It’s time to stop being sedentary! Get up and Tweet with your feet! The novel idea of typing with your feet came from the ad agency, …
Building a WeChat (Weixin) robot
Matt presented a talk on Building a WeChat robot at Barcamp Shanghai Spring 2014! Here’s a recap of the talk, as well as a link to download the source code of the robot. Now, robots are cool, but building a real robot requires lots of hardware knowledge. And one common topic you’ll notice in today’s …
Introducing Speeding Ticket: Speed through your Uservoice support tickets
We’re please to announce Speeding Ticket, ReignDesign’s newest iPhone app. It’s designed for companies that use Uservoice HelpDesk to respond to customer support emails. Small businesses which offer products and web-based services online, often get hundreds of support requests via email and their website. Uservoice simplifies the process of replying to these support requests. It turns …
Ten Things You Need to Know About iBeacon
You may have recently heard a lot of buzz about iBeacon and Bluetooth Low Energy. At ReignDesign, we’re helping our clients make sense of this new technology, and how it can be used to making great location-aware mobile experiences. Kirsten Osolind, President and COO of re:invention consulting, recently said “Beacon technology will improve the way …
Does your app contain, display or access third-party content?
Apple have recently added a new question into the iTunes Connect flow when submitting a new app, or an update to an existing app. “Does your app contain, display or access third-party content?” If you answer “No”, you can continue with the submission, if you answer “Yes” you are asked a further question, “Do you …
Happy Year of the Horse! 新年快乐!
To kickoff the CNY celebrations, ReignDesign sponsored a lion dance for our friends in Park Space to enjoy. To reserve the red and yellow clad lions, Fluxa and Matt used their Uber taxi app. Instead of booking a taxi, they requested a lion dance. Brilliant idea! Like all CNY celebrations, this party was loud! …
Customizing individual share services in a ShareActionProvider on Android
In theory, sharing on Android is simple. Because of the system of Intents, you can prepare your shareable content, like an image, or text, and then easily show a list of installed apps which are able to handle this type of content. For example, if you’re sharing a photo, apps like Instagram, Twitter and the …
ReignDesign announces the opening of their international office in Santiago, Chile
We are pleased to announce the opening of our first international office in Santiago, Chile for the South American region. ReignDesign is a multicultural software design agency. We specialize in the design and development of mobile applications particularly for Android and iOS. After reviewing different markets around the world we decided to start with South …