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Native Frameworks for adding Network Connectivity to your iPhone Applications

rohit — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:11:37 +0000

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 Nsoftware.

• IP*Works! – A comprehensive suite of Internet components for professional developers (FTP, IMAP, POP, LDAP, SNMP, SOAP, etc.).
• IP*Works! SSL – Secure implementations of every major SSL-enabled Internet protocol
• IP*Works! S/MIME – Components for S/MIME e-mail and file signing and encryption.
• IP*Works! S/Shell – Add Instant Secure Shell (SSH) Security to your applications.
• IP*Works! Secure SNMP – Components for building Secure SNMP Agents and Managers
• IP*Works! Zip – An easy, fast, and effective suite of compression components.
• QuickBooks Integrator – Components for QuickBooks and Merchant Services integration.
• E-Payment Integrator – Credit card and ACH processing through Internet Gateways.
• E-Banking Integrator – Components for Open Financial eXchange (OFX) client integration.
• Shipping Integrator – Shipping and Tracking components via FedEx, USPS, & UPS.
• Amazon Integrator – Components for Amazon Web Services including S3, SQS, and ECS

Unit Level Developer Testing for iPhone Applications

rohit — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:55:02 +0000

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 post the code of the application as well.

[source CocoawithLove]

Version Control Application for your iPhone

rohit — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:53:17 +0000

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:

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iPhone Application a day – Everyday – with Code

rohit — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:41:39 +0000

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.

OpenGL ES Tips and Tricks for Game Programming

rohit — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:32:52 +0000

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]

iPhone 3.0 Programming Examples and Tutorials

rohit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:46:18 +0000

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 iphone development, check the site now.

Best Practices for developing an iPhone / iPod Touch Application

rohit — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:40:12 +0000

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 complete article here.

[source Mashable]

Creating your own iPhone Framework!

rohit — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:48:27 +0000

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.

How to Develop / Create a Shopping Cart Application for iPhone ?

rohit — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:10:03 +0000

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]

XML Parsing Frameworks for iPhone Development

rohit — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:06:29 +0000

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

[source 71squared]

Resources to Learn 3D and Game programming on iPhone

rohit — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:42:34 +0000

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 iPhone.

[source Maniacdev]

How to make your iPhone application accelerometer / rotation aware ?

rohit — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:41:33 +0000

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]

Open Source Objective C Library for Facebook Connect

rohit — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:12:52 +0000

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]

jQTouch – jQuery plugin for iPhone Web Development

rohit — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:02:31 +0000

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

Facebook Connect Software Development Kit (SDK) for iPhone

rohit — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:00:22 +0000

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 here.

Native iPhone Applications using JavaScript, HTML & CSS ?

rohit — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:55:01 +0000

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.

Programming Dates in iPhone SDK

rohit — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:37:27 +0000

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]

OpenAL Audio Programming on iPhone

rohit — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:21:38 +0000

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]

Multi Threaded Image Loading

rohit — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:40:13 +0000

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.

Code for Sending email from your iPhone App

rohit — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:19:08 +0000

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]

Extending the iPhone’s SDK’s UIColor class

rohit — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:31:09 +0000

A very detailed article along with code samples for extending iPhone SDK UIColor class and make it more useful by Ars Technica.

Start writing iPhone game code

rohit — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:25:56 +0000

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

[source Journey into XNA]

Memory Management for iPhone Applications

rohit — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:43:52 +0000

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 tutorials for memory management on iPhone.

[source MobileOrchard]

Performance difference between iPhone Simulator and real device

rohit — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:37:33 +0000

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 a thorough explanation, read it here.

[source savoysoftware]

NSApplication – How it works ?

rohit — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:29:03 +0000

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]

How to Parse XML using iPhone SDK ?

rohit — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:40:08 +0000

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

Point and click web app development for iPhone with ModelBaker Framework

rohit — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:37:28 +0000

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

How to make your iPhone apps more responsive ?

rohit — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:58:50 +0000

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 and the cloud more responsive. Read it here.

iWebKit 4.0: iPhone Webapps Framework

rohit — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:08:02 +0000

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

[source iPhone World]

Checklist for iPhone developers and user interface designers

rohit — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:57:02 +0000

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

Interesting tidbits for OpenGL programming on iPhone

rohit — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:29:44 +0000

I have been following this blog for sometime and must say the author Wolfgang Engel is posting some of the best tips for game programmers on iPhone. A must bookmark for every iPhone programmer.

UITabBarController Tutorial

rohit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:46:25 +0000

The UITabBarController is a container that helps switch between different views using tabs, as can be seen in number of iPhone apps like NyTimes, MarketingProfs etc. A very nice tutorial on how to use this container along with source code for iPhone programming is posted by MIT student Edward Benson on his blog. Read it here.

[source Edward Benson Blog]

Porting Ruby Apps to iPhone

rohit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:38:21 +0000

Rhodes, a new open source toolkit developed by Rhomobile makes it possible to port Ruby applications on to iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, and the BlackBerry.

[source MobileOrchard]

How to load a 3D Model ?

rohit — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:35:24 +0000

A very nice tutorial for new comers to OpenGL / iPhone programming that explains how you can load 3D Model from various popular 3D applications out there.

A review of available iPhone programming books

rohit — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:05:36 +0000

A review of three books that are available for iPhone programmers: Programming in Objective-C, Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK and The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook.

Read it here.

[source iPhone Obsessed]

Oolong Game Engine for iPhone

rohit — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:59:57 +0000

The Oolong Engine is written in C++ with some help from Objective-C. It will help you to create new games and port existing games to the iPhone and the iPod touch. The best part is, its free.

IMA4 Audio Programming for iPhone game developers

rohit — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:57:18 +0000

IMA-ADPCM is a compression standard that gets you 4:1 compression on 16-bit audio files. It’s supported natively by the iPhone — but only using certain APIs. Read the full article here.

[source Wooji-Juice]

User Interface Design Resources for iPhone Developers

rohit — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:27:33 +0000

Several tutorials, links, and resources that you can use in your iPhone user interface design process. Check it here.

[source MobileOrchard]

Cocoa Framework a mirror image of Actionscript ?

rohit — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:24:01 +0000

Flash and Cocoa are shockingly similar. Much of the Cocoa framework is a mirror image of Actionscript classes / components. For example:

UIView = MovieClip
NSNotification = Event
UIButton = Button

Read the full article here

[source Insideria]

Video Out support in SDK v2.2

rohit — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:23:33 +0000

iPhone‘s latest SDK contains a programming class called MPTVOutWindow, which enables the iPhone’s Video-Out function, thus allowing the handset to send a video signal through the Dock Connector to an external display.

[source Cellaz]

iPhone SDK v2.2 – New AVFoundation framework

rohit — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:09:26 +0000

The new AVFoundation framework represents one of the most significant changes to the newly updated iPhone 2.2 SDK. It offers a simple playback system for anyone flummoxed by the inhospitality of Audio Queues. More ..

[source ArsTechnica]

Intro to iPhone Programming

rohit — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:53:27 +0000

A nice video tutorial, that gives an introduction to iPhone programming.

iPhone vs. Android development

rohit — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:55:30 +0000

5-day course on iPhone programming presented by Big Nerd Ranch, in particular to point out differences between Android and iPhone development.

[source zdnet]

Tips for Map Applications on iPhone

rohit — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:41:10 +0000

Little pieces of code to help you launch and use map application from your iPhone app.

[source objective-d]

SQLite Resources for iPhone Developers

rohit — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:52:07 +0000

A collection of the best SQLite related tutorials, and libraries in order to help developers in their iPhone development.

[source MobileOrchard]

Localizing iPhone Apps

rohit — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:55:50 +0000

A tutorial to develop a custom formatter class that is used to display local specific data.

[source iPhoneSDKArticles]

BASIC programming for iPhone

rohit — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:56:10 +0000

Point your iPhone or iPod touch to http://virtualgs.larwe.com/gsbasic and you can key in a BASIC program – similar to Applesoft BASIC. It supports the Apple II Lores graphics and text mode.

[source Retromaccast]

Quick SMTP client code for the iPhone: skpsmtpmessage

rohit — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:47:35 +0000

This should be very useful for developers who are looking to provide email functionality in their iphone app. You can download and read more info about it here

[source Alex blog]

Excellent iPhone Programming Chapters by Stanford University

rohit — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:27:56 +0000

Must read for all iPhone developers, here.

[source Stanford University]

iPhone development – Step by step for DOTNET / J2ME / Windows Mobile Developers

rohit — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:29:51 +0000

A nice article for the developers who are on the opposite side of Mac and are looking to get started on the iPhone platform. Read it here.

Debugging tips for Objective-C programming

rohit — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:03:20 +0000

An excellent article by Matt Gallagher about debugging cocoa applications. In the article Matt discusses about Objective-C specific gdb tips and commands that all Cocoa programmers should know.

[source Cocoawithlove]

iPhone Developer Forum Beta

rohit — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:34:25 +0000

Apple finally has opened the developer forums for iPhone platform just like they have it for mac. This should be a good resource for both new and experienced iPhone developers.

iPhone SDK vs Android SDK: Which is better ?

rohit — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:46:25 +0000

Christian Klotz posts about his experience with Android and iPhone SDK and tells us which is a better platform for developers. Read it here.

Tips for iPhone Development using Objective C

rohit — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:21:34 +0000

8 very useful tips when starting iPhone development using Objective C. As per author, “These are the 8 biggest foul-ups that I wish I had known before I started learning Objective-C. Hopefully you’ll learn something here that will prevent you from making an idiotic mistake I already made.”

[source Pathfinder]

iPhone programming screencasts

rohit — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:29:23 +0000

Informative iPhone programming screencasts.

[source MacHappens]

How to build an iPhone application

rohit — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:08:10 +0000

A nice article posted by ZDnet covers the basics of what you need to start developing your first iPhone application. Read it here.

[source ZDnet]

iPhone Sales Skyrocket

rohit — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:00:51 +0000

Apple said sales of 6.9 million iPhone 3G units helped it post fourth quarter (ended Sept. 27) profit of $1.1 billion, up 26% from net income of $904 million during the previous-year period.

Revenue increased 27%, to $7.9 billion, from $6.2 billion last year.

[source HomemediaMagazine]

Make iPhone apps without knowing Cocoa

rohit — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:25:13 +0000

AppLoop launched a mobile application generator which lets you turn any RSS feed into a mobile application for iPhone, even if you don’t have any programming experience.

[source Readwriteweb]

iPhone Fonts – Issues related to Programming

rohit — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:32:01 +0000

Late Night Code has posted a nice article on the fonts available on iPhone that developers can make use of in their apps and the article also explains the subtle differences in the fonts available on Mac platform as compared to iPhone. Good read.

[source Late Night Code]

iPhone & iPod Game Programming Forum

rohit — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:24:48 +0000

iDevGames has opened a message board for iPhone / iPod game development.

[source iDevGames]

iCodeblog – iPhone Programming Tutorials

rohit — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:13:15 +0000

iCodeblog is a good resource for programming tutorials on iPhone platform. Like us, this blog is new and there are only few tutorials but looks like so far so good.

[source iCodeblog]

Tris sourcecode on Google Code

rohit — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:24:57 +0000

This game got banned on Appstore but still it is a very valuable resource to understand how to develop a game for iPhone. You can download the source code of Tris on google code.

31 iPhone apps in 31 days

rohit — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:17:56 +0000

Apps Amuck is writing 31 iPhone applications in the next 31 days and they will also publish both the executable and the source code for each application. This looks like a great resource for developers who will like to jump into iPhone application development.

[source Apps Amuck]

PhoneGap – Bridge between iPhone SDK and Web apps

rohit — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:57:06 +0000

PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and framework that allows web developers to take advantage of the powerful features in the iPhone SDK from HTML and JavaScript. It is written in Objective-C and allows developers to embed their web app (HTML, JavaScript, CSS) in Webkit within a native iPhone app.

PhoneGap is developed and designed by Brock Whitten, Rob Ellis, freelance designer Colin Toomey and Eric Oesterle.

[source PhoneGap]