Stephen Lombardo and Zetetic are the creators of the encrypted iPhone data vault Strip. Apple enforces a number of restrictions on applications in the App Store. Among the most painful is the lack of feature-limited trials. Applications are either completely free, or the customer must pay up front, sight unseen. The proliferation of “Lite” applications [...]
Archive | June, 2009
This Week in iPhone News – June 26/2009
Demographics and Behavioral Characteristics of iPhone and iPod Users Interesting data from AdMob and comScore. New iPhone Users with Activation Headaches Get iTunes Credit Apple apologizes for the 3G S activation woes. Pinch Media Watcher Pinch Media releases a native iPhone SDK application for viewing your application’s stats. The Fable of Free More testimonies from [...]
Announcing: The Unofficial iPhone SDK Feedback Project
A couple of days ago, I received a note from James DonFrancesco about an unexpected behavior change introduced in iPhone 3.0: In 2.X, apps could launch a tel:// url to dial the phone without user input. In 3.0, Apple introduced a verification box to obtain user permission when an tries to make an outbound call. [...]
New In iPhone 3.0 Tutorial Series, Part 2: In App Email, MessageUI
Welcome back! In the first part of this series, I showed how to implement Shake To Undo/Redo and NSUndoManager in an iPhone app. This time, we’ll add in-app email to a simple iPhone application using the new-in-3.0 MessageUI framework. Technically neither mail from an app nor MessageUI are new. MessageUI was a private framework prior [...]
Push Notification & Store Kit – An Interview With Urban Airship
Mobile Orchard Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop. Bay Area, July 30-31. $999 early bird registration. Save $200 with “mo” discount code. iPhone 3.0 has arrived, and with it push notification and in-app purchase. In this interview, Scott Kveton, Michael Richardson and Steven Osborn of Urban Airship talk about the ins and outs of these new capabilities, [...]
This Week in iPhone News – June 19/2009
AppStore HQ A comprehensive mobile app store aggregator. How the iPhone can overtake all gaming handhelds in five steps The iPhone sure is poised to grow, especially in the gaming space. iPhone install base vs. console install base Interesting comparison between how many people have iPhones compared to gaming consoles. The Awesome Potential of iPhone [...]
Beginning iPhone Programming Classes: Bay Area/July 30-31, Seattle/Aug 20-21. “Regular Reader” Discount.
Mobile Orchard Workshops are coming to the West Coast! I’ll be teaching our Beginning iPhone Programming class in the Bay Area on July 30-31 and in Seattle on August 20-21. The class is $1200, discounted to $999 for early registration. Synopsis: From programmer to native iPhone app programmer in two days. Details and Registration I [...]
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A Huge Leap Forward: Graphics on the iPhone 3GS
Guest author Noel Llopis runs the indie game/entertainment studio Snappy Touch and is the creator of the iPhone Flower Garden. Two weeks ago, the question in everybody’s mind was, what were the new features on the new iPhone Apple would surely be announcing at WWDC? Speculation was rampant, and guesses were all over the place. [...]
Speaking at 360iDev On Developer-Owned iPhone Businesses
I’ll be speaking at the 360iDev conference. Here’s my rough-draft level-of-finish submission for the topic: Title Warm, Clothed and Fed: Developer Run iPhone Businesses. Description As developers, we bring a certain set of skills, biases and preferences to business. These act as a double edged sword; we make great business people when we play to [...]
New In iPhone 3.0 Tutorial Series, Part 1: Shake To Undo/Redo, NSUndoManager
Happy iPhone 3.0 release day! To celebrate the release of iPhone 3.0 and, with it, the freedom of being able to talk about things in the 3.0 SDK without violating the NDA, I’m pleased to bring you the first in a series of New In iPhone 3.0 programming tutorials. This first tutorial demonstrates how to [...]
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