Posts Tagged ‘developer’
How To Stay Motivated And Actually Complete Your iOS App
Let’s face it.. it’s easy to get distracted.
Following through on your app ideas all the way to completion can be difficult, especially if someone isn’t looking over your shoulder.
I found this great article from Cliff Harris, developer of some excellent indie games providing some tips on how he keeps himself motivated when working on a project. While he’s not an iPhone or iPad developer the tips certainly apply.
Finishing With Interface Builder – Building Your iPhone Apps Interface Quickly 2/2
This is the second part of the tutorial on building your iPhone App’s interface in interface builder. In this video I quickly drag out all the elements, and connect the interface elements with the appropriate outlets, and actions, and build the class file automatically.
This is the 5th video/tutorial in this series, and I hope you enjoy it.
The first tutorial can be found here:
>>> Developing Your First Apple iPhone App <<<
Porting OpenGL glVertex Code to Iphone OpenGL ES
Continuing where I left off yesterday I will describe some of the potential hangups when converting OpenGL code to OpenGL ES. The first thing I noticed when trying to convert some OpenGL code to the iPhone’s OpenGL ES was that on the iPhone there is no glVertex function. Instead of glVertex you will need to use a vertex array. I’ll give an example from Nehe Tutorial #2.
For example, in Nehe OpenGL tutorial #2 you see the lines:
Getting Started With QuickConnect Iphone
Lee Barney the founder of QuickConnect for Iphone recently informed me that his framework has been and is being used in apps currently available in Apple’s app store.
For those that don’t know, I mentioned QuickConnect a couple of times in the past week as a framework that allows you to write your apps in javascript, and publish them on multiple mobile platforms. It appears as though the frame work is quite far along on the Iphone, and it’s great to see that one of these frameworks really is being actively developed. The prospect of being able to develop apps for all the coming app stores without having to rework any code is definitely enticing.
Interacting With Javascript Iphone Apps Using Objective-C
Ok, if you’ve been following my last few posts I introduced several frameworks that are designed to enable developoment of native Iphone apps using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
First, a visitor asked why would you write an app using Javascript instead of Objective-C?
I can think of several reasons.