Inspired by fellow co worker @elroids post on what phones he has had in his life time I felt I should follow suit! Nokia 1610 First phone, eventually given to my younger brother Ericsson T10i This phone was purchased with my first taste of “internet money” during the dot com boom with gains from alladvantage.com (living [...]
Read More Apple, Future of Mobile, iPhone, myphones, NokiaSometimes after a clean reinstall of your system, you want to reinstall one of the previous versions of the iOS SDK, maybe your not fully happy with xcode 4 yet or have a project that will only compile with an older version without somechanges you do not wish to make. The older versions are available [...]
Read More Apple, iOS, IOS SDK, IPad, iPhone, XcodeIt seems the industry wires and the social media are ablaze with the supposedly breaking story that iOS devices are tracking your every movement Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden announced this at Where2.0 and also made a nifty little application that will visualise the data that is stored in this sqllite database, mine for the [...]
Read More iOS, iPhone, location, media, newsMBProgressHUD MBProgressHUD is an iPhone drop-in class that displays a translucent HUD with a progress indicator and some optional labels while work is being done in a background thread. The HUD is meant as a replacement for the undocumented, private UIKit UIProgressHUD with some additional features. Sharekit If you only need to post updates to [...]
Read More iOS, iPhone, opensource, thirdpartyPhoto by Bryn Salisbury At the weekend just gone Elliot and I attended the LinkedGov hackcamp at LBi offices. The event was brilliantly organised by everyone involved. Some interesting data sets were released . The ones that took mine and Elliot’s interest were the Foreign offices travel advice api and the Greater Manchester bus time tables. Elliot set [...]
Read More Event, hackcamp, iOS, iPhone, LinkedGovCocos2D is a tremendous opensource resource for the iPhone that is going from strength to strength http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/about Features include Scene management (workflow) Transitions between scenes Sprites and Sprite Sheets Effects: Lens, Ripple, Waves, Liquid, Twirl, etc. Actions (behaviors): Trasformation Actions: Move, Rotate, Scale, Jump, etc. Composable actions: Sequence, Spawn, Repeat, Reverse Ease Actions: Exp, Sin, [...]
Read More 2dgame, Cocos2d, iPhoneWith particular note for free applications that need to increase their “stickyness” to achieve reasonable revenues via in application advertisements such as those provided by Admob, adding community features such as a high score boards and messaging between users. http://corporate.scoreloop.com/ Provides location aware global high score boards Ability to post to notifications to Facebook Issue [...]
Read More Community, iPhoneDiscovered some fairly interesting behaviour of the iPhone simulator that had me stumped for a little while When you want to have an application that starts up in Landscape without a status bar the following code snippit placed into your applicationDidFinishLaunching method of the app delegate will allow you to test in the emulator! //For [...]
Read More iPhoneOne of the pains of getting the feedback from reviews on iTunes is that you would have to login into each country individually AppViz for $30 solves this problem, it also collates or your sales information (daily, weekly, monthly) into one place, far faster than you could possibly achieve using the iTunes connect interface pretty [...]
Read More iPhone, Mobile, StatsIt has to be said that the current iTunes system for rating apps has a certain element of bias – the current methods means that probably the majority of people who are leaving a rating are doing so when they delete an application. However the code on the following page allows you to remind users [...]
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