Six weeks ago guest author Brian Stormont posted an article here titled Avoiding iPhone App Rejection From Apple. While writing a rejection story is almost a rite of passage amongst iPhone developers, Brian took a prescriptive what not to do angle. Brian’s story elicited a big response. Dozens of people contributed comments and wrote privately [...]
Archive | May, 2009
iPhone App Video Out
Guest author Rob Terrell founded TouchCentric, a software development company focused on iPhone development, and also runs Stinkbot, a Mac microISV, and is the author of three books about the Mac OS. Editor’s note: Rob Terrell wrote to tell us about a painless, elegant way to pull the video off the iPhone to be displayed [...]
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Interview With David Lieb And Andy Huibers, Creators Of “Bump” The Billionth Installed App
In April, the number of third-party apps installed by iPhone/iPod touch users surpassed one billion. The billionth app installed: Bump, an app lets you swap business cards by bumping two iPhones together. In this interview, we talk with David Lieb and Andy Huibers — the team behind Bump — about how the app works, the [...]
Podcasts Turns 15, Earns Learner’s Permit
Ari’s still unpacking from his move to San Francisco. His Friday This Week in iPhone News column will return next week. When I sat down to start editing the next Mobile Orchard Podcast — an interview with the team behind Bump, the billionth app downloaded — I noticed we let a milestone pass unacknowledged: we’ve [...]
Tutorial: Managing iPhone Third Party Library Dependencies Using Git+Braid
Guest author Doug Barth is the Lead Architect at Interactive Mediums the mobile-marketing technology company behind the SMS marketing tool TextMe. Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS) that has been gaining adoption in both the Ruby and iPhone development communities. DVCS’s allow a developer to work with version control without connecting to a [...]
Tutorial: Networking and Bonjour on iPhone
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 [...]
id<Protocol>, Retain/Release and Protocol Inheritance
Paul Cantrell’s recent post showed that you can use Objective-C protocols to constrain the behavior of id objects. When declaring an instance variable or parameter as id<Protocol>, the compiler’s type checker will warn when sending message not found in Protocol. For this reason, protocols are pretty handy. But in practice, a problem arises. Let’s say [...]
Mobile Orchard Beginning iPhone Programming Community Workshop: Minneapolis, June 13-14
This page, it seems, comes up near the top of the heap for Google searches on the phrase iphone programming. For pages more directly related to iPhone programming visit the homepage or our iPhone programming tutorials section. For upcoming workshops, see our iphone programming classes page. Synopsis: We’re offering a weekend “Community Edition” Of Mobile [...]
iPhone Circle Gesture Detection
Guest author Jeff LaMarche (Profile) is the co-author of the superb Beginning iPhone Development book. Jeff, and his co-author, Dave Mark (Profile), were previously featured on the Mobile Orchard podcast. In Beginning iPhone Development, we have a chapter on gestures. While I think we covered the topic fairly well, I would have liked to have [...]
6 Tips To Get Your App Noticed
Brian Akaka (email) is the Founder/CEO of Appular, an iPhone app marketing and PR agency. Brian was Director/Marketing at Freeverse, where he helped sell millions of apps, including two of the Top-10 paid apps in Apple’s “One Billionth App” promotion. Longtime readers will remember our Five Tips For Getting iPhone Reviews post from early this [...]
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