A new study by Chitika Research claims that “despite its hype, iPhone OS 3.0 had very little to offer iPod Touch users. Push notifications? MMS? Tethering? Essentially useless on a device that relies on WiFi for a connection. iPod Touch users are essentially asked to pay for copy/paste, in-app purchases, and the ability to buy a segment of the latest apps from the app store.”
The ad network’s sample data shows that 94.4% of iPhone users upgraded to OS 3.0, and only 55.24% of iPod Touch users upgraded.
One of our projects currently under development is a 3D puzzle game where player will manipulate a number of cubic blocks. Those blocks can be moved above the board so to look realistic they need to cast shadows onto the board. Despite shadows are used in many 3D games and OpenGL ES does have all necessary things to implement them there is no support for shadows in API itself so the implementation is not straightforward at all. The task requires some smart coding. Let’s see how it can be done.
File downloading is a feature used very often in various applications. You may need to get an update from the server, to provide optional resources to the user or to get a copy of a shared document — all this functionality deals with file downloads. And as long as downloads go over network they can be interrupted which is very frustrating, especially if you are downloading something big that takes a lot of time.
Occipital has managed to earn more than $1 million from the success of its $1.99 iPhone application RedLaser. The software uses the iPhone’s camera to scan the barcode of an item, and then searches online to find better deals for the product.
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has now its own iPhone App. The native app is free. It offers search of images, movies, maps, businesses, news and directions. Users can check their flight status, view the image of the day and use voice search.
Two versions of Google phone were planned, Reuters reported, one to be subsidized through T-Mobile by contract and one unlocked version sold through Google’s website.
“The highly publicized launch of Droid last month marked a major effort by Google, Verizon and Motorola to slow the iPhone’s growing power in the marketplace. And while the Android platform is the most legitimate challenger to iPhone smartphone dominance, it’s important to remember that the iPhone’s flank is protected by an often overlooked, powerful fighting brand: iPod Touch. According to Apple, 58 million iPhone OS devices have been sold worldwide through September 2009. Of those, Flurry estimates that just over 40%, around 24 million are iPod Touch devices.”
Ever desired a method to handle a DateTime picker in Rhodes without reloading the page? The ideal solution would be to tap the datetime input field to popup the DateTime picker, choose a date and/or time and tap ‘Done’. This would automatically display the selection into the input field.
Even though the iPhone specific CSS is not perfect in Rhodes, it can be easily customized to improve the look of the app and make it similar to a native one. But there’s another important aspect for the look & feel of a native iPhone app: animations (transitions between views) and this is missing in Rhodes.
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