Posts Tagged ‘ipad programming’
The Magic Formula For Getting Your App Featured By Apple
It’s the dream of pretty much everyone who has worked on an app to get an app featured by Apple. By now I’m sure we’ve all heard the stories of ridiculous profits that can be earned within a few days.
Now the problem is, how does Apple choose which apps are featured? I’ve seen absolute junk get featured in the Canadian app store while some brilliant apps seem to get glanced over. So unfortunately, no matter what luck definitely seems to be the biggest factor in the formula for getting your apps featured in the magic formula.
iPhone Math Library – Open Source 400%+ Faster
If you’re app makes extensive use of trigonometry (and if you’re working on game development then you probably are) then you probably make extensive use of the built in math functions. This isn’t the first open source iPhone math library to offer a speed increase, but it is the only one as far as I know that is still in active development.
According to Apple apps that make extensive use of floating point numbers should not make use of the thumb compiling option which reduces code size.
4 Ridiculously Handy Custom iPhone UI Tricks and Libraries
The iPhone has a great UI library, but there are still times when you think to yourself when programming — why didn’t they include this feature?
Whenever that thought pops into my head (probably because I’m an efficiency freak who likes to do things in the least possible time) and I can’t easily find the answer in Apple’s documentation I look to see if someone has done it before, and shared their results.
3 Great iPad Development Guides
While the iPhone 4, and iOS 4 upgrade may be grabbing most of the headlines due to it’s recent release the iPad has in it’s short existence proven to be a fantastic seller with over 3,000,000 iPads sold in under two months.
Already there has been much written from those looking to grab headlines due to the iPad’s success. However there really have not been too many high quality tutorials for those looking to develop on the iPhone.
iPad Development Thoughts Roundup
The iPad is still on everybody’s mind, and I’ve been wasting time reading many of the commentaries and brainstorming app ideas. Here’s a roundup of some of the more insightful, and humorous posts I’ve seen from iPhone developers on the iPad along with some other articles providing technical knowledge that wasn’t really covered in the press conference or on Apple’s website.