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… →
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iPhone OS 4: Making life easier to the enterprise
More then a single major feature, Apple introduced a bundle of features aimed to the enterprise, which are…
Apple to provide iBookstore to iPhone and iPod Touch with OS 4
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.
iPhone OS 4: New Mail app
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,… →
iPhone OS 4: how to group apps into folders
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.
iPhone OS 4, multitasking experience without drawbacks
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.
Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad to gain multitasking and over 100 new user features this summer
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… →
iPad ready for the big launch with exclusive apps, 30,000 free books, adult content
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…. →
Objective-C: Protocols
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.
How to build your own iPad in real-size for prototyping.
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… →
Objective-C: Categories
Objective-C supports extensions of classes using categories. Class categories are defined similar as the class itself. The example defines a class MyClass. The header file declares variables myString and myInt, and methods setMyString and setMyInt.
NSMutableDictionary simplicity
As you all know an NSDictionary object stores a mutable set of entries. An NSDictionary is immutable. If you need a dictionary which you can change, then you should use NSMutableDictionary. NSMutableDictionary is a subclass of NSDictionary, so that you can do with an NSMutableDictionary everything which you can do with a simple NSDictionary plus, you can modify it.
Introduction to Objective-C
Objective-C is a programming language that allows object-oriented programming at a high level. It is an upgrade to the standard ANSI C programming language. Objective-C extends the standard ANSI C language by providing syntax for defining classes, methods and other constructs extension of classes. Before studying the Objective-C programming language, basic knowledge of programming in… →
iTunes Connect: now you can schedule price changes and release dates!
Now you can schedule a series of price changes for those apps that will go into effect automatically on their target dates, effectively being able to plan promotions and do some real marketing on your apps on autopilot once you’ve planned your campaign (standing ovation please!). iTunes Connect is Apple’s developers and publishers portal, which… →
No more film-based screen protectors from Apple branded stores
“Apple has said that it will remove both film-only solutions from its stores, as well as any case or other accessory that includes film protection as part of its package, such as cases that include film screen protectors,” according to the report by iLounge. In usual Apple fashion, the company is not disclosing the reason… →