7. Focus on App Content: Audio

In addition to text and images, socialcontent via feeds, and mapping, theNimbleKit Objective-C framework supportsrich media content such as audio and video.

While not every web designer is an audio engineer, today’s Macs can make basic audio production pretty accessible. For example, after importing a song into GarageBand, you can make some fairly quick work out of trimming it and perhaps adding fades. Doing so can give you a brief song sample, like what you can listen to when shopping iTunes for music.

This process makes designing an iOS app with an audio introduction, song sample, or even spoken directions possible. A custom iOS app for education, a musical group, or a product can be greatly enriched with audio ...

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