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iPhone development has created a huge business opportunity for many companies, and the possibilities are only increasing with the announcement of the iPad and constantly improving software. Part of this business involves not only developing applications, but also helping other people develop applications in an easy, hassle-free way. Two companies… Continue Reading »

Chillingo has announced Crystal SDK, a service that is meant to bring a social network to iPhone games. To date, the iPhone has no official social network service, although many people and companies are doing their part to try to change this. Chillingo is one of those companies. They’ve launched… Continue Reading »

The home of Windows is now, ironically, the home of the world’s first course for iPhone development certification. The University of Washington is offering a professional certification program consisting of three classes to help students obtain a good base in becoming solid developers. Despite Stanford University’s decision to make their… Continue Reading »

After the WWDC announcements last week, there is a lot to be excited about when it comes to developing for the iPhone. One thing that can potentially help applications run smoother and faster (especially when it comes to networking on the iPhone) is threading. Threading allows developers to run two… Continue Reading »

Last week, we talked about frameworks in relation to developing for the iPhone. With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has updated and added many frameworks, as well as other interesting tidbits for iPhone developers. For instance, push notifications will now be included into the operating systems and will allow developers to… Continue Reading »

A while back, we were discussing memory management and how that works when developing for the iPhone. This time, I will be talking about frameworks, which contain code that can make programming something easier, but isn’t necessarily needed in every program. Continue Reading »

After discussing iPhone file types last week, we can move on to memory management. On the current version of the iPhone, there is only 128MB of RAM, which is far lower than the usual 2+GB we see on desktop and laptop Macs. iPhone developers must keep this in mind when… Continue Reading »

Now that we’ve got beta testing out of the way, we can discuss the different file types found in XCode. When starting a new project, XCode allows developers to choose from a variety of different starting points for their applications. For iPhone developing, some of the options include Navigation Controller… Continue Reading »

If you’re like me, you absolutely love coding the back end to apps, but you have very little design sense. To me, the fun lies in solving the problem, not necessarily in making a great interface (although I do know that it is just as important as the back end).… Continue Reading »

Hey everyone, I would like to announce the first post of a new weekly column I will be starting called iPhone Developer Intervention. This column will be mostly dedicated towards anything related to the iPhone SDK or developing for the iPhone as well as programming ideas in general. Through my… Continue Reading »