Archive for June, 2009

Unity3D Zero To Hero is temporarily giving out free redeem codes for his iPhone App On The Oche Darts Game.  Please Go here for details.  We all know how important the initial inertia is to the survival of your iPhone game and many of you have iPhone Apps in the pipeline to release soon.  Please support your community and provide some honest feedback at the store.

Would you dump your Blackberry for an iPhone?  According to a crowdscience survey 4/10 people would!  Four out of ten Blackberry users are tempted to switch to an iPhone while iPhone users are fanatically loyal to the device.

iPhone 3D Game Development uploaded by Mike Huntington

I initially had it brought to my attention by IndicThreads.com that Appcelerator Titanium is now available in beta form for developing iPhone Applications and Android applications using HTML, Javascript and CSS.  Note that you can also build rich desktop Apps using Titanium.  A Competing product is PhoneGap and open-source which also offers cross platform development.  This article by David Tucker is a great read Observations about Apple, the iPhone, PhoneGap and the Flash Player.  It provides some food for thought about Apple’s strategy to “lock in” developers to Apple’s development platform and avoid cross-platform migration flexibility.

More Appcelerator news and reviews from the web

1. Appcelerator Launches Titanium Beta from ReadWriteWeb
2. Appcelerator Quick Start Guide

Getting Started with Titanium Developer from Appcelerator Video Channel on Vimeo.

Learn how to create and run your first Desktop and Mobile Applications with Appcelerator Titanium and the Titanium Developer.

More PhoneGap info

1. PhoneGap website
2. Why is Apple Rejecting PhoneGap Built Apps?
3. Open Letter to Apple iPhone Developer Support
4. Someone at Apple Please Review Stance on Phonegap- A detailed look at apple’s point of view on Apps built with PhoneGap.
5. PhoneGap the Mobile Patform Democratizer from Oreilly Radar

On the way to becoming an iPhone application developer I took notes to make sure that I was actually absorbing the material. I hate searching for the same material twice so I collected my favorite links in the process to save other developers coming from other languages the time and to help them stay motivated along the way. This series is not directed strictly to Flash Developers. I collected resources from developers coming from Java, C#, Actionscript, C++, and Python . Initially I sought ways to avoid learning Objective C and Cocoa by using toolkits that allowed me to access the API. As I embraced the platform and got up the never to take the dive I focused more on learning Objective C so as to harness all of the power of the iPhone and the Cocoa Framework. I hope you find this compilation to be useful on your trip to the Appstore and on your personal iPhone Gold Rush. I also with you much success. I would like to send a gigantic thank you to the bloggers and podcasters who helped me learn this stuff and to the developers who kept me motivated by trying to learn Objective C with me and keeping me going (and reminding me not to whine too much). This is a work in progress and I will update if frequently as I add appropriate and helpful content to the blog.

MOTIVATION

1. Interesting thoughts on the iPhone Gold Rush
2. The iPhone GoldRush According to the New York Times

AVOIDING LEARNING OBJECTIVEC

1. Still Avoiding ObjectiveC- iPhone App Development with Python
2. Faking Flash to iPhone.  It can be done,.  We have the technology
3. Alternatives to Objective C for iPhone Applifcation Development
4. Unity 3D iPhone /UnityRemote  Tutorials, Tips, and Utilities

LEARNING OBJECTIVE C and COCOA

1. Why I’m learning Objective C
2. Some Objective C and iPhone Resources for Language Switchers
3. Open GL ES Resources

Getting your Paper- Ways to make money building iPhone Applications

1. In Game Ads to Supplement your iPhone Game Revenue

Getting your application seen- because “if you build it they will come” is a myth

1. iPhone Application Marketing and Appstore notes from around the web

General Resources

1. Hand-Picked Collection of iPhone Resources. ooh Ahh!!
2. Just Discovered the iPhoneDev Subreddit and other iPhone Resources
3. My Delicious iPhone Links 151 and counting

More To come