Silicon Valley’s own Stanford University is one of many universities that has chosen to make more of its course materials available online. With this, comes class CS193P: iPhone Application Programming. Lecturers Evan Doll and Paul Marcos are delivering the class, and providing the class slides, handouts, and example code on the CS193P announcements page. While [...]
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Demand for iPhone Developers Up Significantly – Make Your Mark Now!
oDesk, a leading outsourcing marketplace for tech jobs, has announced that the demand for iPhone developers has skyrocketed by 500% in the six months since April 2008 – a six-times increase. Further, a job trends graph from job search site Indeed.com shows the number of iPhone related job postings going through the roof! None of [...]
Apple Opens iPhone Developer Forums
The iPhone SDK’s NDA may have been relaxed several weeks ago, but Apple has just launched a forum for iPhone developers as part of its Developer Connection program. Marked as being in “beta”, the forums are for members only – specifically, those in the iPhone Developer Standard Program, Enterprise Program, or University Program. You can [...]
PhoneGap: Use the iPhone SDK’s Features from HTML / JavaScript
PhoneGap is a free and open source framework and development tool that opens up the iPhone’s SDK to Web developers – allowing them to access features such as the accelerometer and geo-location tools directly from HTML and Javascript powered Web pages. Support for accessing the camera and “vibration” are pending. The source is directly available [...]
Mobile Orchard Podcast – Episode 1 – Hampton Catlin
This inaugural episode of the Mobile Orchard Podcast features an interview with Rubyist-turned-iPhone mogul and iWik creator, Hampton Catlin. iWik, now renamed iPedia, is a 99-cent Wikipedia companion / browser. It has sold over 50,000 copies at $1 a pop, appeared in Time Magazine, and has been a “featured app” in the App Store. As [...]
Automatic App Generation with AppLoop
With iPhone application development not being the easiest of tasks, it seems there’s going to be a market in developing Web applications that can produce iPhone applications. AppLoop has taken a step into this market by offering a Web app that can turn any blog into an iPhone app that makes that blog easy to [...]
Want To Buy An iPhone App Making $66k Per Month?
Today, one of the more significant players in this nascent iPhone development industry has announced its break-up. TapTapTap, jointly founded by Sophia Teutschler (creator of CoverSutra) and John Casasanta (of MacHeist fame) was set up to bring together top iPhone talent to develop ultra-high quality apps for the iPhone platform. Due to significant differences in [...]
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A 5 Minute Walkthrough of Android For iPhone Developers
Mobile Orchard’s intrepid Dan Grigsby has got his hands on one of the first T-Mobile G1 Android phones (still unavailable to the public as of writing) and gives us a quick, five minute walkthrough of the device from an iPhone developer’s perspective: If the video doesn’t appear in the post above, you can watch the [...]
9 Places To Publicize Your iPhone App
There are plenty of different places to get a mobile application designed. The problem is that they’re quite expensive. You might be able to figure out how to create your own, but it will probably look very basic. Instead, a good mobile application development software can make it even easier, so that you can build [...]
iPhone Development Screencasts from The Pragmatic Programmers
The Pragmatic Programmers – a popular independent publisher – has recently become well known for putting out some excellent, high quality screencasts, especially in the Ruby space. With the lifting of Apple’s iPhone NDA, they’ve got straight into producing some great screencasts for iPhone developers! Writing Your First iPhone Application (video preview) provides three hours [...]
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