Mar
6
2010
iPhone developer extraordinaire Erica Sadun has been running a great series of “iPhone Dev Sugar” posts over on TUAW:
Should you be building universal apps for App Store?
Create shiny buttons easily
Simulating device events with iSimulate
Re-signing applications
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Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, Development, erica sadun, News, roundup, sdk, TUAW
Dec
10
2009
Draw [$2.99 - iTunes link] lets you doodle on your iPhone or iPod touch to pass the time or whip up whiteboard-style diagrams to illustrate your point, share via Twitter or email, and even challenge [...]
Category: Games, iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, draw, erica sadun, p2p, Quick Apps, sketchpad, Whiteboard
Nov
6
2009
Speaking of tiny, incremental improvements, Erica Sadun over at TUAW highlight a new addition some developers are seeing when entering iTunes Connect — a submission history:
Appearing near recently reviewed items, this option opens [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: app status, App Store Apps, Development, erica sadun, itunes connect, News, submission history
Apr
13
2009
Apple has gone out of their way to point out the cons of multi-tasking background applications — a claimed 80% reduction in battery life while on standby with a single 3rd party IM client enabled. [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: developers, Development, erica sadun, push notification
Apr
8
2009
Ars Technica’s iPhone wonder woman, Erica Sadun, has put together what must be the first expert level how-to: Pushing tweets to your iPhone with Apple Push notifications
Ars shows you how to create a [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, erica sadun, how-to, push notification, Tips and How-To, twitter
Mar
14
2009
With the iPhone OS 3.0 Preview coming this Tuesday, March 17, the question will inevitably become: when’s it shipping?!
However, Erica Sadun over at Ars Technica, in an article designed to help developers better target their [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: erica sadun, firmware, News, statistics
Mar
14
2009
The Situation: Developers who signed up for Apple’s iPhone SDK Beta and iTunes Connect program last year are coming up on their 1 year renewal deadline.
The Problem: Apple has no mechanism in place to handle [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, developers, Development, erica sadun, iphone sdk program, itunes connect, renewal
Mar
7
2009
Almost a year ago, Apple held their iPhone SDK Roadmap Event and unleashed the App Store concept on the world. Developers signed up for iTunes Connect contracts, and now their first year is almost up [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store Apps, developers, Development, erica sadun, itunes connect, News, renewal
Feb
9
2009
There are no demos available in the App Store, we know this. No try before you buy, no download now, pay later. According to Erica Sadun at Ars Technica, even mentioning demo in your verbiage, [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store, App Store Apps, beta, bgr, demo, erica sadun, lite, state of the apps
Jan
28
2009
As revealed by Craig Hockenberry on Twitter shortly after today’s iPhone OS 2.2.1 update: developers hadn’t heard a whisper of this release, no beta, not even a warning, and it wasn’t compatible with the previous [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 2.0.1, Development, erica sadun, iphone sdk, News
Jan
2
2009
Not only has the iPhone 3G finally been unlocked, it’s now also been hacked to work with a Blue Tooth keyboard. Sure, it’s not the elegant, Apple, “it just works” solution the world at large [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: blue tooth, erica sadun, external keyboard, hacks, keyboard, News
Dec
8
2008
A week or so ago we linked to Erica Sadun’s demo of the iPhone SDK’s undocumented video out feature. Well, she’s been busy since then talking with Freeverse, the developers behind the hit Moto Chaser [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: Development, erica sadun, motor chasers, News, sdk, tech demo, undocumented features, video out
Dec
5
2008
Apple has now hit the milestone 10,000th app in the iTunes App Store, and to celebrate, TapTapTap created the awesome icon tile artwork above (via TUAW), and what’s more, CNBC (via iLounge) noted that Apple [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 000, 10, 300, App Store Apps, Development, erica sadun, icon factory, News, state of the apps
Dec
1
2008
While many sites are reporting that the iPhone App Store has hit 10,000, MacRumors says it’s not quite there yet, but will be soon:
While several sites have reported that 10,000 iPhone Apps have been released [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 10000, App Store, erica sadun, News, rejection, state of the apps
Nov
28
2008
Updated iPhone with live Video Out from Ars Technica on Vimeo.
A few days ago we mentioned Ars’ iPhone expert, Erica Sadun was taking the lifting of iPhone OS 2.2’s NDA as an opportunity to dump [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 2.2, Development, erica sadun, iphone 2.2, News, secrets, video out
Nov
25
2008
First up, with the previous rejection of Gmail client MailWrangler, Engadget says another app which also dares to “duplicate features” found in a Dock App (Apple’s own MobileMail) has actually been accepted into the App [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: App Store, App Store Apps, developers, Development, erica sadun, News, state of the apps