What? English is not the only spoken language in the world?
Nope and that’s why many developers are leaving behind a big chunk of potential users by providing their application in English only. That’s too bad because Apple is providing an easy way to present the application in multiple languages. It’s called Localization and Internationalization. Here is how it works at a very high level. A [...]
iPhone Simulator Screen Capture
In order to share with you the applications I’m creating on the iPhone, I need to capture the iPhone screen. Not deploying them to a device yet, I need to capture the image from the simulator itself. The most common way to do so screen capture on Macs is to use a special combination of [...]
First small project with iPhone Flickr API and JSON
As I said in my previous post, I worked on a small project to apply some of what I learned, the “Simple Flickr” application. What this application is doing is very simple: it allows me to browse my public pictures on the iPhone. I’m an amateur photograph and posted my pictures on Flickr some time [...]
Second phase of iPhone Application training
Being now done with my first iPhone technical book (referring to my first post below: first blog post) called Head First iPhone Development, I now feel that I have the basic skills required to do simple applications (we all have to start somewhere). To put this knowledge in practice, I’ve decided to build a simple [...]
Numbers around iPhone Business
This story, published on the gigaom blog, shows how Apple but also companies linked to the iPhone (AT&T, iPhone parts manufacturers,…) benefit from its success. http://gigaom.com/2009/12/09/who-is-getting-rich-off-the-iphone/
iPhone Application Programming Kickoff
Hello World! That’s it. After 15 years of diverse programming and software management experience, I’ve decided to find a new challenge and start iPhone programming from scratch. My main motivations are: – Embark on this rapidly growing business which is to sell iPhone applications – Use my creativity to come up with new applications which [...]