Guest author Aaron Kardell runs Performant Design, created the Best App Ever nominated iGarageSale, and will soon launch the MobileRealtyApps.com service for realtors. As described in this article, the iPhone Simulator combined with screen capture software provide an easy way to record a demo video for your app. However, if a key part of your [...]
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Opening The Facebook App To Your Facebook Fan Page
Guest author Robert Strojan (@blackoutrobb) is the founder and lead iPhone app developer at Blackout Labs. He is also a speaker at the 360|iDev Conference in April. In September I wrote a post on iPhoneDevTools.com about opening the Facebook iPhone app from within another app or from the web with the Facebook app’s custom URLs. [...]
App Store Data Mining Techniques Revealed – Part 2: Scripting App Store XML Downloads
Welcome back. The first article in this series introduced App Store data mining fundamentals, principally that iTunes works essentially like a browser, except that instead of rendering HTML iTunes uses XML data to generate its views. In part one, we used a proxy as a man in the middle to save a copy of some [...]
App Store Data Mining Techniques Revealed – Part 1
The App Store is a treasure trove of data. App Store data can help you pick a category/segment, track trends, find the right price point, chart the total number of apps, track the rate of app approval and much more. App Store data mining isn’t magic. It’s about finding data that’s exposed in iTunes, extracting [...]
Screencast: iPhone Provisioning: Running Development Code On Your iPhone — $5
Spend Hours With The Docs Or < 10 Minutes With This $5 Screencast Downloaded over 1,700 times! It’s a hassle getting development code running on an iPhone. There are lots of moving parts, all of which have to come together perfectly in order to deploy to your own iPhone. By walking dozens of new developers [...]
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Announcing iPhone Wax: Native UIKit iPhone Apps Written In Lua
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 [...]
MonoTouch: Native iPhone Apps In C#
Novell and the Mono team — the folks behind the popular OSS/alternate platform .NET and Silverlight implementations — have released MonoTouch. Using MonoTouch, programmers can write native iPhone applications using C#. I spoke with Mono Project founder Miguel de Icaza and Joseph Hill, Mono’s product manager, about the project, the audience, the programming model and [...]
Tutorial: Easy Audio Playback With AVAudioPlayer
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 [...]
New In iPhone 3.0 Tutorial Series, Part 5: Battery Monitoring
If you read last week’s New in iPhone 3.0 post on proximity monitoring then this week’s post on battery monitoring is a gimme. Like proximity monitoring, battery monitoring is enabled by setting to YES a property of the UIDevice singleton: UIDevice *device = [UIDevice currentDevice]; device.batteryMonitoringEnabled = YES; iPhone OS provides two type of battery [...]
Tutorial: iPhone SQLite Encryption With SQLCipher
Stephen Lombardo and his firm Zetetic are the creators of the encrypted iPhone data vault Strip. In this article, Stephen shows how to use SQLCipher — their OSS transparent encryption add-on to SQLite that’s at the heart of Strip — in your own iPhone projects. Mobile devices are notoriously difficult to secure. With a small [...]
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