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RMPaint: an Open Source Painting Library for iOS

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Touch painting is a very requested feature in our children’s book apps and is also a part of Storybuilder, our children’s book authoring tool. Instead of repeating code over and over again we decided to create a library just for it: RMPaint. And we made it open source while we were at it.

RMPaint is an iOS painting library based in the GLPaint example by Apple. Its main features to date are:

  • Paint with touch gestures
  • Dynamic brush and color
  • Save and restore painting sessions
  • Designed for iOS 5 with ARC
As usual, we invite developers to fork RMPaint and contribute or request improvements. We will be adding more features shortly.

Robot Media presents Storybuilder at The London Book Fair

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The London Book Fair is one of the main publishing events of the year and reunites 24,500 publishing professionals. Now in its 41st year, the Fair introduces an App Zone, in which Robot Media will be presenting its children’s book authoring tool Storybuilder.

Come visit our booth at the App Zone on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 April to play with Storybuilder, and get a very exclusive t-shirt for storytellers.

If you can’t come, make sure you request a Storybuilder invite via littlerobot.com.

The Storybuilder icon gets featured on Dribbble

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The Storybuilder icon made its official debut on the booming design community Dribbble, and in a matter of hours became the most popular shot of the day. A hint of things to come? ;)

The icon was designed by icon superstar kadjax and is based on the Robot Media mascot designed by Jamie Noguchi.

Curious about our children’s book authoring tool? Request your Storybuilder invite via littlerobot.com.

Robots invade Bologna Children’s Book Fair

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Bologna Children's Book Fair logoThe premier children’s book authoring tool Storybuilder makes its debut at Bologna’s Children’s Book Fair 2012! Storybuilder allows authors and publishers to produce interactive picture book apps for iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android. And it’s powered by little robots that are also behind hundreds of apps, including content by Random House and HarperCollins.

Pitch your digital children’s book

To celebrate the unveiling of Storybuilder, we will be selecting 10 original children’s book projects that will get privileged access to Storybuilder and personalized support from the Robot Media team. If you’re a children’s book author who wants transform a story into a memorable app, come to our booth and pitch us your project on Tuesday 20 10:00 AM.

There’s free goodies!

Come find us on Sunday at our stand during TOC Bologna, or during the main event at the TOC Pavillion, Hall 26 B 90. We will be giving away collectable robot stickers and demoing Storybuilder live, and you’ll want us to fail: if Storybuilder crashes in front of you get an exclusive “I am a Storyteller” t-shirt!

Oh, they gave us the mike

You can also hear our Head Robot @hpique babble at any of the following sessions:

Let’s make it a Robot Children’s Book Fair. See you there!

Robot Media releases first interactive children’s eBook for Amazon Kindle

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Ghostboy and the Nameless Grave is the first interactive children’s book for Amazon Kindle, an original title produced by digital picture book publisher Robot Media.

Kindle parents can now share the joy of reading eBooks with their children. Ghostboy and the Nameless Grave is an original eBook in which children become part of an interactive adventure, a brand new experience available exclusively for Amazon Kindle.

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Robot Media @ Droidcon 2011 London

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Droidcon London, Oct 6-7

Robot Media will be at Droidcon 2011 London on October 6 to 7. 13th Cylon Guillermo Lechuga (@glechuga) and Head Robot Hermés Piqué (@hpique) will be prancing around the venue, as well as giving a talk on Android In-App Billing (day 2 at 10:10).

And we’re hiring! If you live and breathe Android and have a passion for interactive content, then we would love to meet you and most likely offer you a job!

Droidcon Tickets are still available.

Using JavaScript in iBooks Enhanced ePub

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It’s been known for a while that iBooks supports JavaScript on its ePub files, albeit without any technical documentation whatsoever to date.

Yet when we started experimenting with JavaScript within iBooks, we couldn’t find any open-source working examples. So we created one. :)

JQuery Hello World is a bare-bones ePub that shows a Hello World alert using JQuery. Not only it shows that JavaScript is supported within iBooks, but also that complex libraries like JQuery might be used.

Both the ePub file and the source code are available in our github account. Make sure you update to the latest iBooks version before trying it.

Happy coding! We will be publishing more iBooks ePub experiments shortly.

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