Flat iPhone buttons as offered in Interface builder suck. They don’t look nice.
There’s the option of using Three20 to get good looking buttons. Its an option, but frankly, it feels a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. You end up with a large addition to your code, just for [...]
We’ve had our heads down for a couple of months. This is because we’ve been working on a project we’re very excited about. Now that our initial release is out the door, we’re happy to give out some information about it.
That project is Firepit.
What is Firepit?
Firepit is
A web based framework
For bands going [...]
The new windows 7 phone is upon us. Finally there’s an “iPhone killer”!!!
Ehhhhh. No.
There will be an iPhone killer. But it’s not going be today tomorrow. The iPhone is just far too advanced of any competition.
Why? Apple have one thing in spades that no other computer or handset manufacturer has: Taste.
This seems [...]
It has come to our attention that current versions of “Ireland’s Phone Book” and “Ireland’s Phone Book Pro” are currently not operable. We regret to inform users that in light of a recent threat of legal challenge, we WILL NOT be providing a fix to the application in its current guise. We have [...]
I’m gonna speak about two tools that I recommend if you are planning on developing apps, particularly for clients. These are just as important for any sort of iPhone app development, but they are very useful for interacting and collaborating with customers.
Balsamiq
Balsamiq mockups from Balsamiq Studios plain and simple rocks. What is it? [...]
Whilst working on my latest iPhone project (not yet announced), I wanted to do up a useful credits screen. This project had more than just myself involved and I wanted to ensure everyone got a mention.
I was also conscious of the exposure my apps were getting through apps.ie, so wanted to do something that [...]
As an iPhone developer for hire, I get regular approaches from people with ideas that they would like to turn into realities. I sign non-disclosure agreements and then get brought into their confidence to explain their idea.
Some turn out to be better than others. Those with a broad appeal may become successes; those [...]
OK. So you’ve made it through the ADC signup process. You’ve managed to get an itunesconnect account. You’ve even managed to get some contracts into place, submitted and had your app approved, and now it is on sale!
Well done. This post is to give you some ideas about things to expect [...]
In an earlier blog post, I spoke about how to charge for developing of an iPhone app. A comment was recently added by Finbarr which I think is an interesting question:
One question though. How do you factor in the cost of maintenance? Since all updates to iPhone app’s are free, most [...]
I’ve seen questions about how feed back to a user that something is pending, where you don’t want any input from the user. An example may be making an XML request for data from your iPhone app back to your server. While it is pending you want to show that your app is [...]
