Chris Greening has put together simple-iphone-image-processing, a “simple C++ class with an Objective-C wrapper that provides a set of common image processing tasks” as well as UIImage conversion. So what do you get..? Canny edge detection – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canny_edge_detection Histogram equalisation – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram_equalisation Skeletonisation – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_skeleton Thresholding, adaptive and global – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thresholding_(image_processing) Gaussian blur (used as [...]
10 Useful Links about the iPhone OS 3.0 Preview for Developers
by Peter Cooper on 18. Mar, 2009 in News, Resources
Today, Apple held an iPhone OS 3.0 Preview event for developers and the press. The upgrade itself won’t be available to end users until summer so as a developer you’re looking at a minimum 3 month lead time to develop updates and new products based around the new features. This hasn’t stopped the blogosphere going [...]
Cocos2d (Open Source 2D Engine for iPhone) Gets Key Updates
by Peter Cooper on 17. Mar, 2009 in Tips, Tools
Back in December we posted about Cocos2D, a 2D graphics development framework for the iPhone (and Python, if you prefer). Since then, it’s come on by leaps and bounds with lots of bug fixes and support improvements, as well as new features (demonstrated in this video) including: Effects (Lends, Ripple, Liquid, Waves, Twirl, etc) – [...]
Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue
by Peter Cooper on 11. Mar, 2009 in News
Owen Goss is the developer of Dapple, a cute color matching puzzle game for the iPhone (you may also remember his memory leaks tutorial here on Mobile Orchard). Despite having a slick site, good gameplay videos, and so forth, it hasn’t sold too well. So Owen’s written The Numbers Post (aka Brutal Honesty) where he [...]
A Giant List of iPhone Developer Related Links
by Peter Cooper on 05. Mar, 2009 in Resources
Ari Braginsky (a.k.a. lemonkey) has been busy putting together a frankly intimidating list of links to resources that iPhone developers will appreciate. Blogs, Twitter accounts, tutorials – you name it. There are perhaps 60-80 links on there so far, and he’s trying to grow it. (You can send him an e-mail to ask him to [...]
SCListener: The Easy Way to Detect iPhone Microphone Sound Levels
by Peter Cooper on 03. Mar, 2009 in Tips
Let’s say you have an app that requires the user blow on the microphone to perform some activity (blow out some candles, scare a virtual creature, or whatever). Instead of getting down and dirty with the complex Audio Queue Services, you can now do things in just a few lines with Stephen Celis’ SCListener. SCListener [...]
Skip The Humor in your App Store Descriptions; Apple Doesn’t Like It
by Peter Cooper on 24. Feb, 2009 in Tips
Never Odd or Even LLP – a UK-based development shop – decided to get all funny when submitting their Instant New York app to the iTunes App Store. In a rather critical bug-fix update, they listed the following benefits: – Editorial database updated – Broken images fixed – Extra dragons (In case the point is [...]
It’s Here.. an iPhone Simulator for Windows
by Peter Cooper on 20. Feb, 2009 in Tools
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 [...]
Revealed: Secrets of the App Store (and iPhone User Engagement)
by Peter Cooper on 19. Feb, 2009 in News, Resources
Pinch Media, an iPhone developer tool company, is the developer of Pinch Analytics and Pinch Advertising. Pinch Analytics is designed to help you see how users use your iPhone apps and see your download numbers in real time. Punch Advertising, on the other hand, lets you add advertising in to your iPhone apps easily (ideally [...]
656 iPhone Developers to Follow on Twitter – Add Yourself Too!
by Peter Cooper on 18. Feb, 2009 in Resources
Whether you use it or not, you’ve probably heard of Twitter – ostensibly a social networking tool where you let people know what you’re doing but, ultimately, far deeper than that (that description is like describing e-mail as “a way to send words to people”). There are lots of iPhone developers on Twitter and a [...]
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