In Memoriam: Keiji Nakamura

by Matt Hall on Larva Labs /

I am deeply saddened to report the passing of talented designer and friend Keiji Nakamura. In addition to being a deeply patient and kind person, Keiji was the main designer of SlideScreen and one of the most talented designers we’ve worked with. He took a crude sketch of ours and rapidly transformed it into the [...]

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Winken, Blinken and Nod for iPad

by Matt Hall on iPad /

I couldn’t be more excited to announce our latest iPad project: Winken, Blinken and Nod. It’s the first iPad children’s book to include voice recognition! You just read the story and watch the animations follow along with your voice. Read with your child and let them touch and shake the screen while the story moves [...]

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The end of SlideScreen

by Matt Hall on Android /

Last week Google released an update to the Android Gmail app that removed our access to Gmail data, see here for more details. As of right now there appears to be no workaround as this is an intentional change to restrict access to the data. In general, the early hope on Android of open access [...]

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OMG Gurk!

by John Watkinson on Larva Labs /

Who could have guessed that our friends over at OMG! Heart were such hardcore Gurk fans? In celebration of the release of Gurk II, they have created crocheted likenesses of the three original Gurk heroes, Feraldan, Sir Rugnar and Gorlok! See more pics and a detailed description of how they were made here. We absolutely [...]

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SVG Android Library and Google I/O

by Matt Hall on Android / Larva Labs /

We’re very excited to be in San Francisco today and tomorrow for Google I/O! We’ll be in the sandbox area to open source a big part of Androidify to help developers use vector graphics in their Android apps. Thanks to the Google Creative Lab for supporting the open sourcing of this code and for being [...]

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