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… →
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Triangle stripping utility for iPhone OpenGL ES developers
Triangle stripping is one of the most efficient ways to increase frame rate in complex scenes. There are good open source libraries around that can be used for stripping. One of them is NvTriStrip available on NVidia website. NvTriStrip is written in cross-platform C++ and can be easily built with Xcode. I have wrapped up… →
JellyTouch vs Unity: Rendering Performance Test
JellyTouch is an OpenGL ES game development framework created by Surgeworks. Unlike many popular RAD tools like Unity or Torque our framework is for hardcore developers, those programming geeks who like to retain total control over the code and not willing to trade game performance for RAD development comfort. JellyTouch is a set of Objective-C… →
What works and what doesn’t to improve OpenGL ES rendering performance on iPhone
Last weeks I have been working hard on optimizing our 3D engine JellyTouch. I have tried eventually all recommended methods to improve rendering performance and discovered that some of them work well, some provide small benefit and some don’t work at all. I think it is a good idea to share my results and probably… →
iBoobs banned from the App Store: no more sexy ladies (or men) on the iPhone.
With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple added an age rating system for applications. This not only allowed parents to set appropriate application access for their families, but also opened up the potential for developers to release applications with more adult-oriented content, until Apple received “numerous complaints” from users asking for the “Wobble iBoobs” app to be… →
Microsoft on the verge of releasing Windows Mobile version 2.0
OK… sorry about the inflammatory title, but it really does feel like MS has been coasting since it came out with its first mobile software release. I’ve used Windows Mobile on two Dell Axim revs and two cellphones. Instead of feeling like each new OS revision was an upgrade, it just felt like the same… →
Free iPhone apps monetization: ad supported iPhone Apps Revenue with AdMob or AdWhirl
Free apps get downloaded zillions of times: a lot more then commercial apps. There are plenty of different estiamtes on the ratio between free and paid apps. In our experience, free apps can get even more then 10 times the downloads then a similar paid app priced over the 0.99 USD tier. We’re speaking of… →
iPhone Christian Prayers App in the Top 10 for Reference apps in Italy
Prayers is an easy-to-use, multi-language Christian Prayers database. It represents the ultimate reference to Catholic Prayers for iPhone and iPod Touch. The native iPhone app is in the top 10 of the Reference Category in the Italian App Store, and in the top 100 apps for the Reference Category in Spain and France.
How to intercept navigation in a UIWebView
UIWebView is a great control to display formatted text (using HTML language). That text might contain links that you want to intercept in Objective-C and do a specific action (push a new view for example). You can do this by implementing UIWebViewDelegate protocol…
Some quick Rhodes tips: using helpers
Rhodes allows you to create and use helpers, short methods you typically use to DRY your views. Very much the same as the ones you encounter in Rails. There are a number of caveats though.
iPad & iPhone GUI User Interface Elements for Photoshop Prototyping
We discussed in the past what are the best tools out there to create mock-ups for an iPhone application storyboard — a document that describes the app flow and the desired user interaction that will get you much closer to prototyping. A few days since the iPad has been shown in public for the first… →
Apple iPad: will it be a success or a flop?
The new iPad. Will it be a success? Will it be a flop? Why people complain about it? Is it worth to get my apps optimized for the iPad? What if it will be a huge flop? Continue reading to find out.
iPad influencing the tablet market
My first thought on seeing this image today was “wow… Steve Jobs looks really small now behind his big iPhone”. Fortunately, this isn’t a case of Steve shrinking, it’s the mobile computer that got bigger. I believe there is a lot of potential for the Apple tablet and I’m excited to write software for it…. →
Apple January 27 “Latest Creation” Media Event Live Coverage
Here’s a countdown for you to keep track of these few more hours to the Apple event that will unveil the Tablet device… We’re all waiting and we’ll be all watching for live updates. Here are two sources for you: TheAppleBlog and MacWorld UK.
New Free iPhone Ringtones App, iFist Pump: Techno Ringtones
A new Surgeworks developed iPhone and iPod Touch app hits the App Store today: it’s Toneaphone‘s free iFist Pump: Techno Ringtones application. The new application includes a new, different selection of Techno Ringtones for all your iPhones (in M4R format) and for all other mobile phones (MP3 format) if you are connecting through an iPod… →