Editor’s note: I recently bumped into a bit of Objective-C syntax that was unfamiliar to me. The code was in this form: id<SomeProtocol> variableName = [someObject someMessage] I’d never seen a protocol paired with an id type. I asked Paul Cantrell about it and he prepared this:
Archive | May, 2009
Interview With Joe Hewitt, Creator Of Facebook’s iPhone App, The Three20 Project And Facebook Connect For iPhone
Joe Hewitt, well known as the creator of the popular web development tool Firebug, has spent the last year or more heads down in iPhone land. He’s the creator of Facebook’s popular iPhone app, the Three20 Project and Facebook Connect for iPhone. The Three20 Project (previously covered here) is an expansive, open-source collection of UI [...]
3.0 Release Approaching?
Today, Apple emailed developers informing them that, henceforth, all apps will be reviewed for 3.0 compatibility. Said Apple: Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0. If your app submission is not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, it will not be approved. Apple’s beta-release [...]
Best Of Stack Overflow For iPhone Devs
Stack Overflow is a remarkable site. Billed as a “collaboratively edited question and answer site for programmers” it manages, through a clever hybrid of wiki-style collaborative writing and a reputation system, to be actually helpful. Stack Overflow has a treasure trove of iPhone, Objective-C and Xcode related material. It’s a great place to pick up [...]
5 Free iPhone Dev Screencasts
Mike Clark of the Pragmatic Studio has released five free iPhone programming screencasts, with more scheduled to be released on a semi-weekly basis. So far the collection includes: Refactoring: Rename Wiring Up Outlets and Actions Adding Photos to the iPhone Simulator Application Icon Custom Table Cells in Interface Builder
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OCUnit: Integrated Unit Testing In Xcode
Guest author Kailoa Kadano (Profile) is a full-time iPhone developer and entrepreneur. Kailoa’s experience ranges from embedded systems to python web development. He currently resides near Santa Cruz, California. When the original iPhone SDK was released it lacked unit testing capabilities. Third-party solutions were adapted or created to fill the gap. However, in the interim, [...]
This Week in iPhone News – May 1/2009
Ari’s moving from Chicago to San Francisco, so This Week in iPhone News will be off next week. We’re providing this jumbo-sized edition to get you through. iPhone Developers: How Do We Combat ‘Race to 99c’? Timely discussion on the current pricing trend of iPhone applications “racing to the bottom”. In Defense of Eye Candy [...]
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