Save $200: Early registration for our iPhone OpenGL Programming Class ends Friday. Mike Ash’s Friday Q&A series of blog posts is a staple for anyone wanting to master iPhone (and Mac) programming. In this interview — inspired by a handful of his posts — Mike describes the Objective-C runtime. The runtime makes Objective-C dynamic. Mike [...]
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New In iPhone 3.0 Part 6: Map Kit / Bill Dudney Interview
Bill Dudney of Gala Factory is the author of the Using Map Kit screencast and co-author of the Pragmatic Press’ book iPhone SDK Programming. Additionally: In September, in Denver, Bill is speaking at 360iDev. Noel Llopis and I are also speaking, and Noel will be teaching his iPhone OpenGL class — attend both and save [...]
Interview with Rhomobile: GPL3 Cross-Platform Mobile App Development In Ruby
In this interview with Rhomobile founder Adam Blum we discuss their GPL3 framework for creating cross-platform mobile apps, their GPL3 mobile data sync-server, their hosted offering to simplify cross-platform mobile app builds, and the work they did to get Ruby onto an iPhone. You can listen using the Flash player below, download the MP3, or [...]
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Podcast Interview: PhoneGap — Cross-Platform App Development Using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
PhoneGap offers a way of creating iPhone apps using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. PhoneGap provides JavaScript interfaces to location services, accelerometer, contacts, vibration and sound. What’s more, PhoneGap is cross-platform, so apps can run with little or no modification on Android and BlackBerry too. In this interview, Rob Ellis and Brock Whitten talk about how [...]
Corona: Easy-To-Implement, High Performance, Native iPhone Apps Written In Lua
Bay Area Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop: July 30-31. $799 with early bird price & “mo” discount code. Hurry: early bird price expires Weds! Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh are the co-founders of Ansca Mobile and creators of Corona, a new & much talked-about Lua based kit for building native iPhone applications. This interview includes details [...]
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, [...]
Interview: Transparent Encryption Of iPhone SQLite Databases With SQLCipher
In this interview, Stephen Lombardo and Billy Grey of Zetetic talk about SQLCipher, their transparent OSS encryption add-on to SQLite. SQLCipher encrypts/decrypts just above the write-from/read-to disk level which keeps the SQLite programming model unchanged. You do queries as you normally would, and all of the functionality is retained: your selects, inserts, updates, indexes, etc. [...]
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Interview With David Lieb And Andy Huibers, Creators Of “Bump” The Billionth Installed App
In April, the number of third-party apps installed by iPhone/iPod touch users surpassed one billion. The billionth app installed: Bump, an app lets you swap business cards by bumping two iPhones together. In this interview, we talk with David Lieb and Andy Huibers — the team behind Bump — about how the app works, the [...]
Podcasts Turns 15, Earns Learner’s Permit
Ari’s still unpacking from his move to San Francisco. His Friday This Week in iPhone News column will return next week. When I sat down to start editing the next Mobile Orchard Podcast — an interview with the team behind Bump, the billionth app downloaded — I noticed we let a milestone pass unacknowledged: we’ve [...]
Interview With Joe Hewitt, Creator Of Facebook’s iPhone App, The Three20 Project And Facebook Connect For iPhone
Joe Hewitt, well known as the creator of the popular web development tool Firebug, has spent the last year or more heads down in iPhone land. He’s the creator of Facebook’s popular iPhone app, the Three20 Project and Facebook Connect for iPhone. The Three20 Project (previously covered here) is an expansive, open-source collection of UI [...]
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