Manually tracking the popularity ranking of an app in iTunes App Stores worldwide is cumbersome. Ben Chatelain of SOPODs.com (Profile) has written a script that automatically extracts this information and has generously shared the source code for anyone to use. The script works by downloading iTunes’ top-100 lists for every country. It reports an app’s [...]
Review: Becoming Productive in Xcode Screencasts
Making good use of Xcode has become a popular topic. We published 14 Essential Xcode Tips, Tricks and Resources for iPhone Devs a month ago and it’s still our most popular post. When Mike Clark from the Pragmatic Programmers asked us to review his new Becoming Productive in Xcode screencast series, I mistakenly figured that [...]
A Giant List of iPhone Developer Related Links
Ari Braginsky (a.k.a. lemonkey) has been busy putting together a frankly intimidating list of links to resources that iPhone developers will appreciate. Blogs, Twitter accounts, tutorials – you name it. There are perhaps 60-80 links on there so far, and he’s trying to grow it. (You can send him an e-mail to ask him to [...]
SCListener: The Easy Way to Detect iPhone Microphone Sound Levels
Let’s say you have an app that requires the user blow on the microphone to perform some activity (blow out some candles, scare a virtual creature, or whatever). Instead of getting down and dirty with the complex Audio Queue Services, you can now do things in just a few lines with Stephen Celis’ SCListener. SCListener [...]
Interview with Michael Tyson, Creator of the Audio Mixing App “Loopy”
Michael Tyson (Profile) is the creator of “Loopy,” a very cool audio mixing application. Highlights from this interview include: From UIView to OpenGL: the seven different implementations it took to finalize its unique — and Best App Ever award-nominated — UI. From audio-queues to Remote IO: the four different architectural approaches he tried before finalizing [...]
Five Tips For Getting iPhone Reviews
Guest author Jim Bernard is the General Manager of MarketWatch.com and an iPhone marketing enthusiast. He can be reached at bernard.jim at gmail.com Even though Mobile Orchard does not review apps, we get a surprising number of product pitches. Some are quite brilliant, others almost embarrassingly bad. This got us thinking: what makes a successful [...]
Skip The Humor in your App Store Descriptions; Apple Doesn’t Like It
Never Odd or Even LLP – a UK-based development shop – decided to get all funny when submitting their Instant New York app to the iTunes App Store. In a rather critical bug-fix update, they listed the following benefits: – Editorial database updated – Broken images fixed – Extra dragons (In case the point is [...]
It’s Here.. an iPhone Simulator for Windows
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 [...]
Connecting Click-Throughs to App Sales
Let’s say that, in the course of drumming up attention for your app, you get mentioned in TUAW and Lifehacker on the same day. Conventional wisdom says that you won’t be able to tell which of your sales came from TUAW, which came from Lifehacker, and which were organic because it’s widely believed that you [...]
Revealed: Secrets of the App Store (and iPhone User Engagement)
Pinch Media, an iPhone developer tool company, is the developer of Pinch Analytics and Pinch Advertising. Pinch Analytics is designed to help you see how users use your iPhone apps and see your download numbers in real time. Punch Advertising, on the other hand, lets you add advertising in to your iPhone apps easily (ideally [...]
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