Facebook developers already have a useful info on Facebook components documentation, i.e., they count on Facebook FBML wiki as reference. Thinking of designers and, of course, ourselves as designers, we made a Facebook Graphic User Interface (FBGUI) resource kit for Photoshop to make our work easier. The purpose is to speed up Facebook interface design,… →
Ever since upgrading Apple’s iPhone SDK to 3.2 beta and 3.2 final now, I started experiencing this issue: Interface Builder (IB for friends) didn’t recognize, show or list the images in “nib” files associated to an Xcode project. Other symptom of the problem is Interface Builder not being kept in sync with an Xcode project… →
The delegation is a commonly used pattern in object-oriented programming. It is a situation where an object, instead of performing a tasks itself, delegates that task to another, helper object. The helper object is called the delegate. Let’s say there is a main class that wants to delegate the calculation of a sum to another… →
With over 50,000 gaming titles on the App Store, Apple said it will be forming a social gaming network with features to invite friends, set up matchmaking for multiplayer games, support for leaderboards, and for tracking in game achievements. The feature set is now pretty much standard in the existing social gaming networks such as… →
More then a single major feature, Apple introduced a bundle of features aimed to the enterprise, which are…
Steve Jobs announced iPad’s iBooks will be available on all iPhone OS devices. The iBooks application will work on both iPhone and iPod touch, and all books and page placements will be synced wirelessly across a user’s devices. As with the iPad, Apple will be bundling in a free “Winnie the Pooh” book.
The new Mail app features a Unified Inbox that lets users view all of their mail accounts in one inbox just like Mail.app in Mac OS X, it also offers fast inbox switching, an option to organize messages by thread, and the ability to open attachments with an 3rd party app. iPad debuted this ability,… →
Folders in Apple’s iPhone OS 4 will allow to group apps in the Home Screen pages. Creating a folder is as simple as dragging apps on top of each other to group them.
Apple’s Senior Vice President of iPhone software Scott Forstall explained how the company was able to add multitasking while preserving battery life and avoiding major slow downs: iPhone 4 will add seven different multitasking services APIs for developers, each tuned to solve different multitasking scenarios.
Steve made it again. As Microsoft is going to “copy” Apple’s iPhone banning multitasking for 3rd parties apps, the “most advanced mobile OS in the world” makes another leap forward adding a multitasking implementation that provides a “multitasking experience” to users while preserving battery life. The new release adds 7 services for developers that allow… →
In the first article in this series I described a way to redirect iPhone clients to our mobile application. Now I will describe how to build a registration application using JQTouch. A typical web application sends the content of each page, but in this model we deliver the whole application and only parts of the… →
Apple was given as “dead” in 1997. Steve Jobs returned and created a strategy in 4 weeks to resurrect the company. What were the key points of that strategy, and how did that allow Apple to create the iPod and the iPhone? Here are some quotes from the press in 1997: “Apple has become irrelevant”,… →
Analyst Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley said suppliers for the iPad have currently forecast 2.5 million iPads to be shipped from March to May 2010: Apple would ship between 8 million and 10 million by the end of 2010. This number is much higher than the expectation of 5 million that was forecasted so far…. →
In Objective-C protocols are used to declare a list of methods that are used or may be implemented in any other class. Protocols are declared with the @protocol directive. They have no curly brackets with variables since they cannot have any variables associated with them.
Magical, revolutionary, and very difficult to get how great it is without having it in your hands. That’s what Steve Jobs said, right?… And how does he expect his fellow developers to create apps for this before the iPad comes to market if he doesn’t spare units to developers? AppleInsider reports only a very few… →