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Mar 6 2010

TUAW’s Erica Sadun Shares SDK Sugar with iPhone Devs

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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Dec 10 2009

Draw: Shareable, Playable, Tweet-able Sketchpad for iPhone

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 [...]


Nov 6 2009

iTunes Connect Adds “Submission History” for Developers

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 [...]


Apr 13 2009

Push Notification a Burden to Small Developers?

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. [...]


Apr 8 2009

How To: Roll Your Own Twitter Push Notification App

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 [...]


Mar 14 2009

What iPhone Firmware are You Running?

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 [...]


Mar 14 2009

iPhone SDK Beta/iTunes Connect Contracts Extended to July 11

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 [...]


Mar 7 2009

App Store Devs: Renew Your Contracts… When Apple’s Good and Ready to Let Ya!

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 [...]


Feb 9 2009

How Should Apple Handle App Store Demos?

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, [...]


Jan 28 2009

Apple Releases iPhone SDK 2.2.1

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 [...]


Jan 2 2009

iPhone Hard Keyboard… the Hard Way

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 [...]


Dec 8 2008

Play Moto Chaser for iPhone… on Your TV?!

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 [...]


Dec 5 2008

State of the Apps: 10,000 Now True, 300M Downloads Too, Icon Must-Do, And Promo Code How-To!

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 [...]


Dec 1 2008

State of the Apps: Approaching 10,000 Apps and Avoiding Rejection Traps

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 [...]


Nov 28 2008

Hacking Away at iPhone 2.2 TV-Out Secrets

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 [...]


Nov 25 2008

State of the Apps: Mail App Slips Through, Rejection Re-Do’s, Paying for Reviews, and NDA Over for 2.2!

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 [...]