Development Goes Faster With iPhone Wax Early this summer I started playing around with MacRuby, which lets Rubyists create native OS-X applications. While I love Objective-C, scripting languages have speed-of-development, memory management simplicity, and other advantages. Getting Ruby running on the iPhone is challenging; while I’m sure it’ll get there, I wanted something sooner. I [...]
Archive | September, 2009
Announcing The iPhone Recipes Community Book/Call For Submissions
Great things happen at conferences. Last night, at dinner with some fellow attendees/presenters at 360iDev, we fell into a conversation where we were showing off the snazzy UI elements from apps — not necessarily our own — and then brainstorming about how they were constructed. Present at dinner was Jake Behrens. Jake, along with a [...]
iPhoneGameJam: An Impromptu Overnight Hackfest at 360iDev
Roughly half of the 200+ attendees at 360iDev are game developers or would-be game developers. Put a critical mass of passionate people together, fuel them with coffee and good tools and something interesting’s bound to happen. In this case, it’s the iPhone Game Jam. The brainchild of Noel Llopis (@snappytouch), the iPhone Game Jam is [...]
3 Tips That Might Get You Featured In The App Store
Read on for three goodies that I’ve picked up here at the excellent 360i|Dev Conference that’ll help you get Apple’s attention and, if you’re lucky, will get you showcased in the App Store. The first two come from Matt Drance, the well-known now-indie one-time Apple iPhone evangelist: Apply for an Apple Design Award. If your [...]
This Week in iPhone News – September 25/2009
Google: Apple Totally Rejected Our Google Voice App More details surrounding the rejection of Google’s Voice App from the App Store. News and Announcements for iPhone Developers A new feature from the iPhone Developer Program that brings you regularly updated news and announcements for iPhone development (developer connection account required). App Store Resource Center Another [...]
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iPhone 3.1 Upgrade Numbers Revisited
Following our post last week on 3.1 upgrade numbers, Adit Shukla of Pinch Media wrote to share their data on user’s current OS levels. Their data, based on “several million unique users,” shows about half the percent of users on 3.1 as from the previous data set: As always, we love it when people share [...]
Portland/OR and Los Angeles/CA Beginning iPhone Programming Classes. “Regular Reader” Discount.
I’ll be teaching our Beginning iPhone Programming class — from programmer to native iPhone app programmer in two days — in the Portland/OR on Nov 12-13 and in Los Angeles/CA on Nov 19-20. The class is $1200, discounted to $999 for early registration. Details and registration. The last two classes I taught sold out before [...]
Programming The iPhone For Accessibility By The Visually Impaired
Per Busch, a blind iPhone user from Germany, has been on a crusade to raise developer awareness about VoiceOver, a new-in-3.0 accessibility enhancement. Per’s is a noble quest, so we’ll do our part here: VoiceOver Over View VoiceOver, says Apple, “describes an application’s user interface and helps users navigate through the application’s views and controls, [...]
Podcast Interview: Marcus Zarra / Core Animation
Marcus Zarra is a well known Mac and iPhone developer and blogger at Cocoa Is My Girlfriend. He’s the author of several books, including Core Animation: Simplified Animation Techniques for Mac and iPhone Development due out in early 2010. He’s also one of the speakers at the upcoming Voices That Matter iPhone Conference in Boston [...]
This Week in iPhone News – September 18/2009
AT&T Likely To Keep iPhone One analyst firm is predicting AT&T’s exclusive deal as the wireless carrier will be extended beyond 2010. Can The iPhone App Store Have A Community Developer Manager Too? Criticisms on how the App Store is currently being run and how it could be improved. Two From GDC Austin: PlayFirst On [...]
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