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Toneaphone is one of the greatest and most unique mobile media companies you’ll find out there. They are the first company in the App Store to compose original songs as ringtones, feature corresponding Album Artwork, and have created a vast collection of over 100 original ringtones to choose from, of all genres.

The iPhone native app Surgeworks designed and developed had about 200 downloads in the first week, and was positively received by bloggers and reviewers on YouTube. It also got about a dozen five star reviews on the App Store and got ranked 30th in Italy for the Entertainment category in the same time frame.

Tags: core data, Design, iPhone, iphone sdk, itunes, native, open gl es, toneaphone
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Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.

A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year.

Tags: apple, flash, game, iPhone, ipod touch, native
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Rhomobile provides great instant gratification in building applications. See my last article for a starter.

There are some elements you’ll miss as you start to work on the iPhone target. The back button is one and the custom tab bar is another.

The main bar can currently be customized by building rhodes from source (the way I did in the previous post). Open platform/iphone/rhorunner.xcodeproj in Xcode and double-click MainWindow.xib under Resources. This will launch it in Interface Builder.

You might wonder why the bottom bar is a toolbar and not a tab bar. Native iPhone apps typically use a tab bar that switches the view above the bar. This isn’t going to work for rhodes however–we aren’t going to change to a different view. We’ll simply tell the UIWebView to go to another part of the application. Fortunately,

Tags: IB, interface builder, iPhone, native, objective-c, rhodes, rhomobile, Xcode
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