Entries tagged with “development”

Apart from getting all my existing CA examples onto the iPhone I've also been toying with what the best way to build out the 'photo city' demo from WWDC 2008 would be (my next Core Animation screen cast series)....... read more

While the program at iPhoneLive was already really exciting with all the great speakers and content we had lined up. Now the the NDA has been lifted all the speakers are going to be able to share more detail in...... read more

Sadly I have only half a post for you today; I was hoping for something much more detailed, in order to spark off some debate. Alas, only half the tale can be told. But perhaps we can have the debate...... read more

What happens when you lock a couple hundred iPhone developers in a room with an equal number of iPhones? Community, that's what.... read more

Among all of the iPhone documentation published, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? In this article, Matt Twomey highlights some of the documentation from Apple that he has found most accessible, but at the same time particularly useful. ... read more

O'Reilly has created a place where all things related to the iPhone can call home. Here you'll find technologists passionate about the iPhone platform offering blogs, articles, code and forum chat about the iPhone SDK, web apps and Dashcode, and cool iPhone related innovations.... read more

With its multi-touch interface, accelerometer and integrated multimedia support, the iPhone platform provides an exciting space for third party development. Now that Apple has stepped up to the plate and released its SDK, it's growing ever richer. Xcode and the official SDK offer new worlds to explore while the thriving Open Toolchain SDK community continues its forward progress.... read more

As the new iPhone SDK hit the streets, I decided to take another look at those iPhone Panda protocols I wrote about just a month ago. To my slight surprise, the protocols disappeared from Apple's public iTunes listings.

All mentions of Panda have dropped away. The two remaining P2 (i.e. iPhone) items, namely a top ten list and the iTunes terms of service, no longer produce any iPhone-specific results.... read more

Seven hours. Go on and ask. I know you're dying to. What could possibly waste seven hours of time in a developer's life? Why downloading an SDK and installing new firmware! Needless to say, I'm in a particularly grumpy mood this morning.... read more

So you pwned your 2.0 dev phone. Now what? How about using your SDK to build apps that you can run outside the sandbox. Here's how. The iPhone OS restricts all SDK development to application “sandboxes” for the sake of...... read more

When it comes to portable computing, the iPhone works in that it gets the job done. Its screen is barely big enough to read comfortably. Its onscreen keyboard will never match up fully to the needs of a trained typist...... read more

If you’ve used the iPhone or iPod touch for any time, you’ve likely seen the small red badges that appear over applications on the home screen. These might indicate the number of missed phone calls or unread emails that accumulated...... read more

Progress bars allow end-users to anticipate wait times. They present bars that fill from left to right. These bars indicate the degree to which a task has finished. Progress bars work best for long waits where providing state feedback allows...... read more

The other day, I posted on TUAW about finding Apple's new AppStore Protocol in Apple's public storeBag.xml file. Today, I've been able to flesh out those calls and make them work--mostly through the help of iPhone hacker Pumpkin who figured...... read more

Hackers have been hard at work updating the open source iPhone SDK to work with Apple's newest unreleased firmware and here is what they have found: nearly everything that worked with earlier firmware continues to compile and work with the...... read more

What happens when you offer free technical support and application distribution for only $99? An oversupply of iPhone developer wannabees and an undersupply of Apple developer support resources. That's my guess at least. If you actually made it into the...... read more

Say you were working in an unspecified but extremely buggy beta SDK. Say you suddenly started encountering "could not open a new pseudo tty" errors whenever you tried opening a new terminal windows. There's not much help out there on...... read more

I was up way way late and woke up way way early. I didn't sleep so you could--here are important things you need to know about the SDK. Intel only. You need an Intel Mac running 10.5.2. Don't believe the...... read more

Last weekend, I decided to expand Coverflow to work with my entire photo album. This involved exploring the MusicLibrary and PhotoLibrary frameworks to find out how I could extract a complete set of albums and their pictures. The PLPhotoLibrary class...... read more

If you have even the slightest interest in the iPhone SDK be aware that Apple's servers are getting slammed from every direction. I finally got a download to start after a few hours and am about 5 hours away from...... read more