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iPad App Development : How to create iPad Apps

iPad App Development : How to create iPad Apps

All things iPod, iPhone, iPad and Beyond המדריך המלא למפתח האפליקציות הטרי - סמארטפון הציפורים השמנמנות שעפות באוויר ומתרסקות על חזירים מרושעים, הצליחו לא רק להכניס לקופתה של חברה פינלנדית קטנה בשם רוביו 100 מיליון דולר ב-2011 לבדה, אלא גם להצית את דמיונם של מיליונים ברחבי העולם. בהשקעה צנועה יחסית (140 אלף דולר), הצליחה אפליקציה אחת קטנה בשם אנגרי בירדז לכבוש 600 מיליון מכשירי סלולר בעולם - והיד עוד נטויה. כמה נטויה? לאור הנתונים האלה, ברור שהמירוץ אחר האפליקציה הפופולרית הבאה מתקיים בכל העולם. את השאיפה הישראלית לפתח אפליקציה חווה השבוע גם שר התקשורת משה כחלון, כשביקר בפתיחת הביתן הישראלי בתערוכת הסלולר הגדולה בעולם בברצלונה. אמנם חלק מהחברות עוסקות בתחומים עתירי פיתוח טכנולוגי שקשורים לעולם תשתיות התקשורת, שמזוהים באופן מסורתי עם ישראל. מה שמלהיב את הדמיון הוא שנדמה שכל אחד יכול לפתח אפליקציה, אבל האמת היא שרק מעטים יתעשרו מאפליקציה שיפתחו - והדרך עד לשם ארוכה מאוד וכוללת סקרי שוק, בחירת מערכת הפעלה, בניית מודל עסקי, בדיקות, בדיקות ועוד בדיקות. 1. 2. ובכל זאת, איך יודעים שהרעיון שלכם טוב? 3. בטוחים שאתם מוכנים להוצאה הזו? 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.יש לי אפליקציה. מזל טוב!

The Apple iPad Fan iOS Human Interface Guidelines: Custom Icon and Image Creation Guidelines The Status Bar The status bar displays important information about the device and the current environment (shown below on iPhone). Default (dark) content Light content The status bar: Is transparent When present, always appears at the upper edge of the screen Don’t create a custom status bar. Prevent scrolling content from showing through the status bar. Use a navigation controller to display content. Avoid putting distracting content behind the status bar. Think twice before permanently hiding the status bar. Consider hiding the status bar—and all other app UI—while people are actively viewing full-screen media. Choose a status bar content color that coordinates with your app. When appropriate, display the network activity indicator. Navigation Bar A navigation bar enables navigation through an information hierarchy and, optionally, management of screen contents. A navigation bar: When the user goes to a new level in a navigation hierarchy, two things should happen: Toolbar A toolbar: Tab Bar

Open iPhone SDK: Adding Application Badges - O'Reilly Digital Me If you’ve used the iPhone or iPod touch for any time, you’ve likely seen the small red badges that appear over applications on the home screen. These might indicate the number of missed phone calls or unread emails that accumulated since the user last opened Phone or Mail. There are actually two ways to go about badging applications: one, an extremely simple UIApplication call, the other a slightly more involved tunneling into UIKit. To set an application badge from within the program itself, use setApplicationBadge:. Pass it an NSString as its argument, limiting the string size to 4 or 5 characters at most. NSDate *now = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:0]; NSString *caldate = [[now dateWithCalendarFormat:@"%b" timeZone:nil] description]; [self setApplicationBadge:caldate]; To remove an application badge, pass the empty string, i.e. @””. The problem with the UIApplication approach is that to use it you must place your requests directly from the application.

50+ iPad Resources You Might Have Missed Apple's iPad is the little device that could. Any scepticism about Apple's tablet technology was largely erased as the iPad took touchscreen technology to a larger, more robust high. We've tracked the iPad through its first months in public hands with a slew of features and resources. We've here collected some of our best — sometimes bizarre — resources for you to get all caught up. Whether you're looking for the best business apps, need some decals to trick out your device, or just want to see if your iPad works in space — this collection of more than 50 iPad resources is sure to suit your needs. 10 Beautiful and Usable iPhone and iPad InterfacesIf you're looking for a beautiful, efficient app for your newly minted iPad, take a look at some of these elegant examples ranging from NPR to skee-ball.10 Awesome Apple iPad Decals [PICS]Your iPad should look as beautiful on the outside as it does on the inside.

iOS Newsstand Tutorial - Viggiosoft Blog A new way to distribute magazines Since the beginning of the iPad era, one of the most appreciated features in the tablet has been the possibility to read magazines and newspapers. Practically all major publishers (and a lot of minor) have created their own magazine and newspaper apps and the first in-house experiments have grown with increasingly better applications. Besides a lot of software companies followed this path, the major ones by providing their own publishing system and a lot of other start-ups simply exist to offer their services to create custom apps for their customers. While Apple in the time applied several regulations, e.g. limiting the possibility to purchase issues outside the In App Purchase system, or introducing a subscription mechanism, it behaved before iOS 5 mainly as an observer, limiting its own participation in the app arena with the iBooks app, dedicated to books. So how a Newsstand app differ from other apps? Application setup Basic app Enabling for Newsstand

Apps Ipad – Discover the Best iPad Apps & iPad 2 How To Create Your First iPhone Application - Smashing Coding 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 and published in September 2012. 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. Be sure to check out our previous articles: 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. More after jump! 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: What Are Your Expectations? Where Do I Begin?

Using Application Badges Several native applications on the iPhone use application badges as an indicator of new messages, think email and SMS. Creating badges is quite straightforward and is nothing more than a method call, passing in the desired number to display. The image below shows how a badge may look when applied to your application. The code to create the badge is below the image. As one would expect, the iPhone does limit the number of digits it will display – see the code and image that follow: One nice feature that would be welcome is to have a means to create a badge with text. Although you can set a badge for an application icon, I believe the real creative uses of this will evolve if/when Apple provides a means for an application to update the badge when the application is not running. I’ll keep my fingers crossed…

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