Route-Me is a new, open source map library for the iPhone, built using Objective C and using the fast CoreAnimation framework. It’s licensed under the new BSD license so you can use it for both commercial and non-commercial uses as long as you include the copyright notice and disclaimer in the documentation for your product [...]
Archive | December, 2008
Interview with Brent Simmons, Creator of NetNewsWire
In this latest episode of Mobile Orchard’s iPhone Developer podcast, we interview Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire for the iPhone and Mac. Brent talks about adapting a desktop app’s UI for iPhone, has advice for indies making a living selling iPhone apps, describes how he successfully split MarsEdit from NetNewsWire, gives some examples of cool [...]
How Rank Correlates to Sales: Top 50 means 1000 Sales per Day
Infomedia is the developer of iFart Mobile, an iPhone app that you can use to make farting noises. In just over a week of sales, iFart has done very well, going from #70 within the Entertainment section to becoming the 4th most popular app overall! Two days ago, Joel Comm (a popular Internet marketing expert [...]
AppSales: App Store Sales Reports For Your Apps At Your Fingertips
If you’re one of those developers who logs in to iTunes Connect ten times a day to keep an eye on the sales figures, AppSales is probably just the tonic you need! AppSales-Mobile is an iPhone app that allows you to download and easily analyze your daily and weekly sales reports from iTunes Connect. You [...]
Cocos2D: Open Source 2D Game Engine for iPhone Developers
Cocos2D is an development framework for building 2D games and other graphical applications in Python. Cocos2D-iPhone offers more of the same, but focused at the iPhone and Objective C! It’s open source and makes it really easy to develop 2D games for the iPhone. There’s built-in support for physics (using Chipmunk), sprites, parallax scrolling, iPhone [...]
Rhodes: A Tool To Bring Ruby Apps to the iPhone
InfoQ’s Werner Schuster reports on Rhodes, a new open source toolkit developed by Rhomobile that makes it possible to run Ruby applications on the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, and the BlackBerry. Support for Symbian and Android is set to follow. The code is hosted on Github. Rhodes works by packaging Ruby code with a Ruby [...]
One iPhone Developer’s Sales Figures Prove PR Works Best
AppCubby, an indie developer of two popular iPhone applications – Trip Cubby and Gas Cubby – has put together a comprehensive blog post containing graphs and sales figures of their applications on the iPhone App Store. Entitled Financial Realities of the App Store, they look at the success (or not!) of advertising with MacWorld, AdMob [...]
99 Cent iPhone Apps Not Significantly More Popular
Update: December 12 – see the bottom of the article for a different, possibly more accurate graph.. Are 99¢ apps harming the iPhone app ecosystem?: The Pragmatic Argument Two days ago Craig Hockenberry wrote an open letter to Steve Jobs complaining about the prevalence of 99 cent apps on the App Store and the “rush” [...]
Build an iPhone Webapp in Minutes with Ruby, Sinatra and iUI
While Mobile Orchard and most developers focus on the development of “regular” iPhone applications using the iPhone SDK, it’s also possible to develop iPhone-specific apps as “webapps.” If you’ve used Google Calendar or Google Mail from your phone, you’ll have seen an iPhone “webapp” in action. While webapps can’t get access to all of the [...]
iPhone Developer Profiles
As iPhone programmers, we have a collective credibility problem: none of us can point to years of experience and a deep showcase of examples, so it’s hard for potential clients to know which of us are capable and which of us aren’t. We’re introducing Mobile Orchard Profiles to help solve this problem: Profiles and Endorsements [...]
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