How To Build An iPhone App: A Guide. Some iPhone app developers blog about the process of developing their apps. Some even make videos. One development company - Ten23 Software - has gone much further. The company has created an entire 37 page guide to the development process (below), decisions they made and what they learned during the creation of their PhotoKast app. Their hope is that the document might provide insights for other developers when they start out on iPhone App development projects. We get hundreds of iPhone apps submitted for review to Mashable every week, but Photokast's creators are unique in that they spent time to help others faced with the same task. The app itself is fun, too: it serves up photos from your area, asks you to rate them and spreads the most popular pics to more users. Building PhotoKast: Creating an iPhone app in one month.
API Introduction. The Gliffy Developer Program has been created with a simple vision in mind: We wanted to make it possible for developers to add Gliffy diagramming features to their existing web based applications.We've accomplised this goal by creating a simple to use developer framework which in turn makes it easy to create mash-ups with Gliffy. What can I build? Create drawings in wiki pages: They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and our Confluence Plugin customers prove this everyday when they add flow charts, network diagrams, class diagrams and more to their wiki pages. Give your customers the ability to add Gliffy drawings to your product, too. Include Gliffy in your blog software: Blogs have revolutionized the internet.... but blogs only let you edit text.
Add rich drawings to your content management system: At best, most web based content management systems can only edit text. Examples Getting Started with the Gliffy API It's easy to get started developing with Gliffy Technical Overview. Imagine Cup Student Competition - Explore Imagine Cup. Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012. STAMFORD, Conn., November 18, 2009 View All Press Releases Gartner, Inc. has identified the top 10 consumer mobile applications for 2012. Gartner listed applications based on their impact on consumers and industry players, considering revenue, loyalty, business model, consumer value and estimated market penetration. “Consumer mobile applications and services are no longer the prerogative of mobile carriers,” said Sandy Shen, research director at Gartner.
“The increasing consumer interest in smartphones, the participation of Internet players in the mobile space, and the emergence of application stores and cross-industry services are reducing the dominance of mobile carriers. “The ultimate competition between industry players is for control of the ‘ecosystem’ and user experience, and the owner of the ecosystem will benefit the most in terms of revenue and user loyalty,” Ms. The top 10 consumer mobile applications in 2012 will include: Contacts About Gartner Gartner, Inc. Debugging Toolbox. Rhodes unifies smartphone app dev | Developer World. In a move to unify software development for mobile systems, Rhomobile will launch on Tuesday version 1.0 of Rhodes, an open source framework to build applications for major smartphone operating systems. With Rhomobile's Rhodes 1.0, developers can write applications once using HTML and the system builds native applications for smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and Android.
Development for Android is new in the 1.0 version. Also featured is camera support. The announcement follows by two weeks an Eclipse Foundation open source effort called Pulsar, also intended to cope with the issue of developers having to deal with multiple software development platforms when building mobile applications. [ InfoWorld's Test Center takes a developer's-eye view of smartphone platforms ] Available at the Rhomobile Web site, the Rhodes 1.0 framework reduces development times by using HTML instead of diverse native operating system languages for devices, Rhodes said.
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Get the price right To some extent, the price you set for your app depends on what you want to achieve with the app. For a publisher such as the Telegraph, the iPhone app has to be free, as the aim is to drive reader numbers and ad revenues. Likewise, if you are seeking to sell through the app, or promote your brand with games for users, such as the Hello Baby iPhone app, or Ocado's shopping app, then it should be free to download.
For other types of apps, such as the recently released Tube Exits app, then this needs some careful consideration. Make the most of phone's functions Only send users to mobile-optimised web pages Make navigation clear. jQTouch releases new version of mobile goodness. How to Create Your First iPhone Application | How-To | Smashing. Advertisement Update: 01/10/2012: The original version of this article by Jen Gordon was published in August 2009. It was thoroughly revised and updated by the author in September 2012. — Editorial Team Since the iTunes App Store launched in 2008, over 500,000 apps have been approved by Apple, and thousands more app ideas are scrawled on napkins across the world every day.
But question remains, how can a person with limited technical skills create an iPhone app? The good news is anyone can make an iPhone app, it’s just a matter of knowing the series of actions you need to take to make it happen. Be sure to bookmark this article because it will serve as a guide for learning the process for creating your first iPhone app, going step by step from idea to the App Store. What Is Your Goal? The first thing to look at when embarking on any product development or entrepreneurial venture is your goals for the project. Let’s look at an example. Here are some examples of project goals: Large view. (al) Porting the Amplitude Application from the iPhone to a Windows M. Many iPhone developers are discovering the potential for new markets and significant revenue opportunities within the Windows Mobile environment and are wondering how to port their Apple applications to Windows® phones.
This case study documents the efforts and experiences of an iPhone application developer in porting the iPhone application Amplitude to a phone running Windows Mobile 6.5. Based on his experience, it offers technical depth, code samples, useful links, observations, and tips to help accelerate porting projects. It is intended for developers who have written applications for the iPhone using the Objective-C language and would like to port their applications to Windows phones.
All opinions expressed are those of the developer and not necessarily those of Microsoft. About the Developer Gripwire.com Gripwire.com is a mobile and social application development company located in Seattle, WA. About Amplitude Device Used Gripwire used the HTC Touch Pro as the target mobile device. Ready to Port your iPhone App to Windows Mobile? - Windows Mobil. Hello, my name is Constanze Roman and I’m a Community PM with the Windows Mobile Community Team. If you’ve been curious about porting an iPhone app to the Windows Mobile platform, then I have exciting news for you! We have just published a new technical article on MSDN titled Porting the Amplitude Application from the iPhone to a Windows Mobile Device – a Case Study which outlines the real-world experiences of a developer who ported the popular Amplitude application. Amplitude picks up any sound in a user’s surroundings through the microphone and then amplifies the sound, rendering it into a rich graphical representation on the device.
Amplitude can be used to amplify any sounds, such as human or animal heartbeats, that usually wouldn’t be picked up by the human ear. Amplitude provides a cool user interface featuring an oscilloscope that allows users to view and visually quantify, signal voltages, as you can see the volume of the sound that you are listening to. 45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories | Develope.
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Tipster9Tipster, from Carsonified (the producers of the Future of Web Design conference), is a place to share and find tips from other web designers. 2. 3. It's done. Titanium Mobile. Getting Noticed in Apple's iPhone App Store - Digits. 10 Tips for New iPhone Developers - Nettuts+ Making a webapp for the iPhone is a lot like making a normal web site, but with a few quirks to abide by. In this article, I'll give you a wide variety of tips, covering things such as: "must-haves", usability guidelines, testing/debugging, pitfalls, and performance issues. I hope you enjoy it! WebApps vs. Native Apps Keep in mind that a web application runs in the browser, while a native application is installed on the iPhone.
Still not convinced? The list goes on... 1: Viewport, Viewport, Viewport I would say this may be the simplest and most important thing for an iPhone web app. This tells the browser to scale your page in such a way that will make it fit nicely on the iPhone. Width=device-widthThis fits the page to the device's width. Keep in mind that the viewport IS NOT A WINDOW. A viewport is a rectangular area of screen space within which an application is displayed.
Specifying the viewport is a *must-have* and is the first step into making your web app iPhone-friendly. Conclusion. 6 Steps to Building a Better iPhone App. Brian LeRoux is Nitobi's Software Architect, and is involved in shepherding the PhoneGap open source project. You can read his blog, or find him on . Thanks to increasingly powerful devices and cheaper data plans, the mobile app space is growing faster every year. Apple has been at the forefront of that growth with the iPhone, by both partnering with telecom companies to provide near-unlimited web access, and redefining application distribution with the App Store, which created a new industry and market for smartphone applications. The App Store has created a gold rush for developers, and there are now over 50,000 applications for sale, making it harder to get a newly released app noticed by users. It has become especially necessary for developers to reduce development time and put their product on the market as quickly as possible.
Here's a list of steps which should be considered when getting into the iPhone app game: Step 1: Narrow your focus Step 2: Build a better user experience. Top 18 Social Media Resources for Developers. This post is part of Mashable’s Social Media series for developers, highlighting handy tips and resources for software developers.
This series is supported by Forum Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition. The stereotypical view of a coder is that of an anti-social hacker, sitting alone in a darkened room, banging away on a keyboard by the glow of a monitor (or six) until all hours of the night. But that's not true to life - today's programmers, developers, and code enthusiasts have fully embraced social media. Whether you have a simple code question or are embarking on a collaborative code project to build your company's next big product, code is best done learning from and working with others. Social media is an incredible vessel for collaboration, sharing, and information discovery, and there are now many great tools that aid in web and software development.
These features and tools are ideal helpers for both advanced app builders or those just starting out with HTML or PHP. 1. 2. PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework. iPhone for JavaScript Developers.