Posted :Jan 25th 2010 03:41PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Games

Tons of new frameworks for iPhone developers to use that will should really simplify  networking, credit card processing, shipping & tracking, banking, etc. for iPhone applications. Only one glitch its all commercial! You can find more info about them at…

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Posted :Dec 28th 2009 02:25PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Games

Matt Gallagher writes an excellent article about unit level testing for iPhone applications and explain in detail the logic and application tests in a real world development environment using a test application as example. He is generous enough to…

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Posted :Nov 28th 2009 12:23AM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

iVersion is an iPhone SVN client which allows developers to edit and manage their code away form their desktop. More information can be found at http://www.benreeves.co.uk. IDB readers can get it for free by using the following promo codes:

WWX3A3WWY7LX, ELTKP7HNXE7L, 7PP4NK969RJ7, A43LWXK6Y4R4, LT4TL6ATTFRM,…

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Posted :Sep 1st 2009 05:11PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

A brilliant blogger / coder by name Matt is making an iphone app every day, posting detailed information about it and also sharing the code with the masses. Enormous resource for all iPhone developers.

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Posted :Jul 20th 2009 01:02PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Game Programming, iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

We all know OpenGL ES only accepts textures that are power 2. What if we have non standard textures ? Craig Giles has posted a solution for the same with the code snippet.

[source Journey into XNA]

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Posted :Jul 10th 2009 11:16AM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources, iPhone UI

This is a gold mine for all those who are looking for examples and tutorials for iphone application development. The examples include making your first app, editable detail view, animating a view, table views etc. Get a kick-start in…

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Posted :Jun 11th 2009 01:10PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone UI

Brian LeRoux discusses the best practices that can help an iPhone developer  make a commercially successful iPhone application / game. The points that he discusses includes: focus, user interface design, approach, development tools, testing and appstore submission. Read the…

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Posted :Jun 9th 2009 12:18PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

Scott means has posted couple of resources for developing your own iPhone framework. iPhone development frameworks can be used in various iPhone application / game development projects. Few popular examples are Unity 3D, JSON Framework etc.

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Posted :Jun 2nd 2009 04:40PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

A 30 minute video tutorial demonstrating the entire coding process of developing a shopping cart app for iphone / ipod touch is published here. The author is also kind enough to share the entire source code for the application.

[source OnlineTutorialVids]

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Posted :May 6th 2009 07:36PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Game Programming, iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

An excellent article by Mike on various XML frameworks available for iPhone SDK, particularly, TouchXMLKissXML. The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using each one of them. As Sourcebits we extensively use TinyXML framework in our projects…

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Posted :Apr 26th 2009 11:12PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Game Programming, iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

For doing programming in 3D on iPhone, either we use the OpenGLES or use existing 3D frameworks like Unity3D, Oblong engine etc. Here are 8 great resources that will help you get started in 3D and game development on…

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Posted :Apr 9th 2009 04:11PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

A very detailed iPhone Development tutorial in which author uses the example of a digital clock to describe how the app can handle the rotation using iPhone accelerometer api calls. Source code included.

[source theappleblog]

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Posted :Mar 25th 2009 01:42PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

Joe Hewitt, has released the facebook source code library in Objective C for iPhone developers. This is a real good resource for developers that are looking to integrate their iPhone applications with Facebook. Download it from here.

[source infoworld]

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Posted :Mar 19th 2009 11:32AM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources, iPhone UI

jQTouch is a jQuery plugin that allows development of iphone web applications with native animations and default application styles. Alpha release is available here.

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Posted :Mar 19th 2009 11:30AM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

Good news for iPhone developers, Facebook has released a SDK for iPhone; Facebook Connect, that allows developers to hook up their native iPhone applications with the Facebook and take advantage of the vast facebook userbase. Download the SDK from

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Posted :Mar 17th 2009 11:25AM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

Yes, creating native iPhone applications using common web technologies is possible now, using PhoneGap. PhoneGap is a cross platform mobile framework that lets any web developer make native iPhone, Android and Blackberry applications.

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Posted :Mar 11th 2009 10:07AM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

If you have been troubled with mundane tasks like Get Today’s date while developing your iPhone applications then this tutorial is for you.

[source howtomakeiphoneapps]

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Posted :Mar 3rd 2009 12:51PM by rohit
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An excellent tutorial along with code snippets for writing an OpenAL sound loader, OpenAL wrapper class and actual code to play some audio files in iPhone.

[source Gehacktes]

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Posted :Feb 24th 2009 02:10PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

A very thorough article including the source code, for loading multiple images from sites like flickr in your iphone app in an asynchronous manner, so that delay is less and user experience is quick and neat. Read it here.

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Posted :Feb 21st 2009 07:49PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

A quick and short tutorial plus code for calling mail app in iphone from your application and automatically filling in the address, subject and content. Read it here.

[source iCodeBlog]

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Posted :Feb 16th 2009 01:01PM by rohit
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A very detailed article along with code samples for extending iPhone SDK UIColor class and make it more useful by Ars Technica.

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Posted :Jan 30th 2009 01:55PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Game Programming, iPhone Programming

A detailed article about writing code especially for developers who have experience with XNA framework.

[source Journey into XNA]

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Posted :Jan 27th 2009 12:13PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

Managing memory is very important part of iPhone software development because of the hardware limitations. If the memory is not managed properly it leads to all those embarrassing crashes that can be avoided by following this excellent list of resources and

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Posted :Jan 19th 2009 05:07PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming

An article by Savoy titled,”My iPhone is not a Mac Pro” brings out clearly that the performance we see for the iPhone apps on a simulator is not the same that we get in the real device. They have given…

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Posted :Jan 19th 2009 09:59AM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming

Matt Gallagher explains the steps that occur between program startup and the dispatch of events to your code — so you can gain greater understanding of what NSApplication does on your behalf. Read it here.

[source Cocoawithlove]

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Posted :Jan 15th 2009 09:10PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming

A nice tutorial by Craig Giles for parsing xml using iPhone SDK. Read it here.

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Posted :Jan 5th 2009 05:07PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming

ModelBaker delivers point and click web development for iPhone and Android with practically no knowledge of coding required. Download the free demo here.

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Posted :Jan 4th 2009 08:28AM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming

Jonathan Saggau wrote an article about iPhone programming where he discusses how to optimize memory to avoid crashes at runtime. Also he explains some tricks that will make your iPhone applications, particularly the ones that are dealing with xml parsing…

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Posted :Jan 3rd 2009 01:38PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming, iPhone Resources

iWebKit framework allows for easy creation of iPhone webapps/websites and requires very little programming knowledge.

[source iPhone World]

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Posted :Dec 29th 2008 09:27PM by rohit
Filed under : iPhone Programming

APCmag has posted a list of things for iPhone developers and UI designers that will help in making a usable and beautiful iPhone app.

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