PhoneGap is a free and open source framework and development tool that opens up the iPhone’s SDK to Web developers – allowing them to access features such as the accelerometer and geo-location tools directly from HTML and Javascript powered Web pages. Support for accessing the camera and “vibration” are pending. The source is directly available [...]
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Mobile Orchard Podcast – Episode 1 – Hampton Catlin
This inaugural episode of the Mobile Orchard Podcast features an interview with Rubyist-turned-iPhone mogul and iWik creator, Hampton Catlin. iWik, now renamed iPedia, is a 99-cent Wikipedia companion / browser. It has sold over 50,000 copies at $1 a pop, appeared in Time Magazine, and has been a “featured app” in the App Store. As [...]
Automatic App Generation with AppLoop
With iPhone application development not being the easiest of tasks, it seems there’s going to be a market in developing Web applications that can produce iPhone applications. AppLoop has taken a step into this market by offering a Web app that can turn any blog into an iPhone app that makes that blog easy to [...]
Want To Buy An iPhone App Making $66k Per Month?
Today, one of the more significant players in this nascent iPhone development industry has announced its break-up. TapTapTap, jointly founded by Sophia Teutschler (creator of CoverSutra) and John Casasanta (of MacHeist fame) was set up to bring together top iPhone talent to develop ultra-high quality apps for the iPhone platform. Due to significant differences in [...]
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A 5 Minute Walkthrough of Android For iPhone Developers
Mobile Orchard’s intrepid Dan Grigsby has got his hands on one of the first T-Mobile G1 Android phones (still unavailable to the public as of writing) and gives us a quick, five minute walkthrough of the device from an iPhone developer’s perspective: If the video doesn’t appear in the post above, you can watch the [...]
9 Places To Publicize Your iPhone App
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 [...]
iPhone Development Screencasts from The Pragmatic Programmers
The Pragmatic Programmers – a popular independent publisher – has recently become well known for putting out some excellent, high quality screencasts, especially in the Ruby space. With the lifting of Apple’s iPhone NDA, they’ve got straight into producing some great screencasts for iPhone developers! Writing Your First iPhone Application (video preview) provides three hours [...]
Apple Goes On The Road To Teach iPhone Dev Skills
Apple has announced the iPhone Tech Talk World Tour – a series of 24 events designed to teach potential iPhone and iPod Touch application developers a wide range of skills. Topics covered include UI design, development tools, integration, and App Store submission. The tour takes in 24 locations on four continents. All the North American [...]
Ultra Simple iPhone Application Development Walkthrough
Matt Long – of the snappily named Cocoa Is My Girlfriend – has put together a useful walkthrough of how to create a very simplistic iPhone application – right from launching XCode through to dropping controls on to a form. This is an ideal place to start if you haven’t even attempted to create your [...]
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