iPhone

iPhone Apps Wishlist

Posted Mon, 26/10/2009 - 14:57 by chris

Hoping to catalogue a bunch of app requests from people as we come across them in conversation etc. There is a good chance that some apps will already exist. They just need to be found. I'll start the ball rolling and add to it as things go along. If you know of an app that fulfils the brief, please add it to the comments.

Here goes:
RSS to speech app
Twitter to speech and voice recognition for commands and replies etc.
Meet up with me app. (press a button and all friends get told where you are and can come and meet you.. just a thought)

iPhone Games

Posted Wed, 26/08/2009 - 08:09 by chris

I'm quite keen to get into writing some games for the iPhone. I started one a while back, before the game kit made networking easier. I'd like to get back on to it and rewrite it to take advantage of the new stuff. If anyone else has aspirations of a similar nature, please get in touch, maybe we can work together on some iPhone booty generating goodness.

Getting back to the iPhone

Posted Sat, 11/07/2009 - 08:12 by chris

I've recently bee asked to get a quote together for an iPhone app and I want to rewrite one of my earlier attempts at an app so this weekend I'm going to try and get the basics of an app together as a bit of a refresher. Wish me luck. I've been using php and actionascript for some time now so I'll need to switch modes on my head.

iPhone OS 3.0

Posted Wed, 18/03/2009 - 14:04 by chris

I've downloaded and installed the new iPhone OS and SDK. It seems I may have to rewrite the app I was working on to take advantage of the new features. It makes sense to use the provided peer-to-peer API instead of my hand-crafted one.

Perhaps over the weekend I'll get a chance to make some progress. Can't wait.

XML parsing on iPhone

Posted Mon, 10/11/2008 - 08:58 by chris

I was working with yet more XML the other day and found out after almost completing my testing in the simulator that NSXMLDocument and support classes are not included on the device. This is apparently because they are a little too heavyweight for the device. I find that odd given that we can deploy complex 3D games on the same platform yet XML isn't quite ready. Anyway, there's a couple of alternatives. We have access to the libxml2 libraries which would need to be included in the build if used. There's a library in google code for TouchXML which should help with this.

iPhone Development

Posted Tue, 04/11/2008 - 09:36 by chris

I have recently been questing heavily to get up to speed with my iPhone development. I've learnt a lot and I owe much of my knowledge to others. Now I can safely say I'm 'getting there' with my abilities on the device I'd like to share some of my knowledge with anyone who is interested.

I'll be covering anything relevant to either cocoa, os x dev and iPhone dev. Thanks to the NDA being lifted I can now do so without issue so here goes.