Tweet 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 [...]
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Hello There: A CoreLocation Tutorial
Tweet 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 [...]
14 Essential Xcode Tips, Tricks and Resources for iPhone Devs
Tweet Xcode is big. Apple’s Xcode Workspace Guide, a terse inventory of its features, is 116 pages. Xcode’s preference window has 13 sections, each with a dozen or more items. There are at least 206 keyboard shortcuts. I started counting menu items but gave up the ghost when I’d topped 300 items before finishing the [...]
Alocola: Mobile Orchard’s Safari Helper: Makes Websites “Location Aware”
Tweet Alocola is a free web-helper application that we’ve created that lets users provide their location information when websites ask for it. It is available from the App Store now. Alocola works with Safari. With Alocola, web developers need not create their own iPhone apps. Users simply browse in Safari the way they normally would; [...]
ActiveRecord.js: Object Relational Mapping (ORM) for your iPhone Webapps
Tweet ActiveRecord.js is an open source object relational mapper (ORM) for JavaScript that takes a lot of inspiration from Ruby on Rails’ ActiveRecord database access library. In theory, objects are used to encapsulate database access and add domain logic. In practice, you can do things like this: var fred = User.create({username: ‘fred’,age: 32});fred.username // => [...]
Google Releases Objective C Toolbox
Tweet Google has released an eclectic set of tools for Mac and iPhone developers called “Google Toolbox for Mac” in an attempt to share some sample code, conventions, and tools that Google believes Mac developers could use for inspiration. The toolbox is licensed under the open Apache License 2.0 and includes: A Google Objective-C “style [...]
See Competing iPhone Apps Coming with One Juicer
Tweet One Juicer is an online application by Two Toasters LLC that enables you to keep an eye out for competing iPhone apps on the App Store. You specify some keywords, provide your e-mail, and you’ll be notified when apps matching those keywords come on to the store. For example, if you have a “guitar” [...]
Route-Me: An open-source map library for iPhone developers
Tweet Route-Me is a new, open source map library for the iPhone, built using Objective C and using the fast CoreAnimation framework. It’s licensed under the new BSD license so you can use it for both commercial and non-commercial uses as long as you include the copyright notice and disclaimer in the documentation for your [...]
AppSales: App Store Sales Reports For Your Apps At Your Fingertips
Tweet If you’re one of those developers who logs in to iTunes Connect ten times a day to keep an eye on the sales figures, AppSales is probably just the tonic you need! AppSales-Mobile is an iPhone app that allows you to download and easily analyze your daily and weekly sales reports from iTunes Connect. [...]
Cocos2D: Open Source 2D Game Engine for iPhone Developers
Tweet Cocos2D is an development framework for building 2D games and other graphical applications in Python. Cocos2D-iPhone offers more of the same, but focused at the iPhone and Objective C! It’s open source and makes it really easy to develop 2D games for the iPhone. There’s built-in support for physics (using Chipmunk), sprites, parallax scrolling, [...]
