If you’re a Ruby developer, you might be familiar with RubyFlow, a popular Ruby community link blog. Well.. we’ve decided to bring a little bit of that community spirit to the iPhone development community too.. presenting.. iPhoneFlow! iPhoneFlow is a community link blog for iPhone developers. You can either just read and check out the [...]
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AppViz: A New iPhone Sales Report Visualizer
Back in December, we posted about AppSales, an iPhone app that helps you visualize your iPhone app store sales reports. Sales tracking and management seems to be starting to become a topic of interest to developers and there are new entries to the market all the time. Independent developer Dylan Bruzenak presents the latest: AppViz. [...]
iBetaTest: An iPhone App Beta Testing Service / Community
iBetaTest is a new site that aims to bring together iPhone application developers and eager beta testers. The benefit for both sides is that developers get an eager set of users to play with their apps before they hit prime time, and the users get exclusive access and a first look at apps not yet [...]
A Mini Interview with Jeff Smith, CEO of Smule
Almost every iPhone user should be familiar with Smule. They’re the “sonic media applications” company behind the popular Ocarina application, where you blow into the iPhone’s microphone and use your fingers on the screen to control the notes you wish to play. Their latest creation, Zephyr, allows you to send messages to random people around [...]
ObjectiveResource: It’s iPhone on Rails
ObjectiveResource (or Github repository) is a framework for iPhone developers that allows you to easily interact with Ruby on Rails applications. Essentially it’s a port of Rails’ own ActiveResource – a library that enables RESTful communication between apps and serializes objects for transit. In this way, it makes it easy to interact with Rails apps [...]
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New Screencasts: Coding in Objective C 2.0 by Bill Dudney
Pragmatic Programmers – a niche publisher popular in the progressive programming world – has recently been getting into producing short, info-packed screencasts on new and up and coming topics. Their latest is Coding in Objective C 2.0 by Bill Dudney. As a relatively novice Objective C coder, they invited me to give them a whirl. [...]
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Review of Manning’s “iPhone in Action” Book
iPhone in Action, by Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline, bills itself as an “introduction to Web and SDK development” for the iPhone. In print form it costs $39.99 direct from Manning (with free e-book) and in e-book only form it’s $24.99. If you’d rather brave Amazon.com, the print copy costs $26.39 at time of writing. [...]
More on Inter-App Communication on the iPhone
Yesterday, Mobile Orchard’s own Dan Grigsby posted about how he performed Apple-approved iPhone interprocess communication using URL handlers in his Alocola iPhone app. Shortly thereafter, Ryan Johnson of InnerFence commented that they’ve been doing the same for a while with their own apps. InnerFence are perhaps best known for their powerful Credit Card Terminal app [...]
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9 iPhone Memory Management Links and Resources
Memory management is the process of keeping track of objects in your applications and “freeing” objects that you no longer want to keep around (otherwise nasty memory leaks can occur). On the Mac, you can optionally allow Objective C to deal with the memory management on your behalf, but as an iPhone developer, it’s a [...]
The Amazing iPhone: An Easy-to-Read Report for iPhone Developers
The Amazing iPhone is a free 44 page PDF report aimed at “iPhone developers and business owners”. It’s totally free – no signups or anythine like that, and it was produced by Kisky Netmedia. The reports starts off with an overview of the iPhone and the opportunities available on the App Store. A lot of [...]
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