SPONSORED: Special Discount on Sensible TableView for iOS Development Goodies Readers

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Joost Schuur

I’ve talked about Sensible TableView, the super powered Objective-C extension to UITableViews for iOS development, chock-full of features allowing you to build a working table view based app from your own object classes within minutes in the past on this blog. In collaboration with the developer, I’m now pleased to be able to present readers of iOS Development Goodies with a $5 (17%) discount if you purchase the class now with the code SCSTVJS5310.

For full details of its features, head over to the site and check out the 30 minute intro video or take a quick look the feature list. The latest version just added Code Data support. Don’t just take my word for it though how useful this class is. Popular developer Oliver ‘Dr. Touch’ Drobnik tweeted this ringing endorsement just today:

My mind was just blown by Tarek’s ingenious table view extension: http://www.sensiblecocoa.com/ just watch [the] Demo, and you’ll agree.

So head over to Sensible Cocoa and use coupon code SCSTVJS5310 during checkout, and you’ll save yourself $5 off the price of Sensible TableView, currently priced at an introductory rate of $30. It comes with full source, documentation, samples and 90 day support from the developer.

Full disclosure: By using this coupon code, I get a share of the sales proceeds.

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Formula for getting your app featured by Apple? — Erick Garayblas, developer of the action game Alienz for the iPhone, talks about his experience being a featured game in the app store for two weeks and gives 5 short tips on what might help other developers get one of those coveted spots. 8/23/10

Ad Hoc OTA iOS Beta App Updates With Hockey

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Joost Schuur

From Andreas Linde comes an iOS framework that simplifies rolling out provisioning profiles and beta versions of an app along with later updates over the air. All of this works without requiring a jailbroken device, using the new wireless distribution features of iOS 4. Obviously, this wouldn’t be approved in an iTunes submission, but for a beta phase, it’s a great solution to keeping everyone on the same version.

Keep in mind that you still need to register the UDIDs for your beta participants’ devices, and if you’re not an Apple licensed enterprise developer, you’re limited to 100 devices per year, across all of your apps, including non beta testers.

Read all about it on the Buzzworks blog, or watch this video demonstration below:

Hockey uses both a backend server and client side component and was inspired by a blog post on wireless iOS app distribution by Jeffrey Sambells (via Sophia Teutschler on Twitter).

Update: If you’re doing wireless distribution, the iOS Beta Builder utility might also come in handy, for creating the required manifest and HTML files for an IPA file.

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iOSDevCamp 2010, Day 2 Recap

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Joost Schuur

More highlights from iOSDevCamp 2010, this time of the second day:

Missed the first day?

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iOSDevCamp 2010 Prize Winners

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Joost Schuur

News is coming in via Twitter about the winners of this weekend’s iOSDevCamp 2010. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Congratulations to the winners and well done to all who participated too! Did I miss any award or participant on projects that won? Contact me.

Update: The official list of winners has been posted on the iOSDevCamp site. Head over there to see who won Most Innovative, Best Hardware Hack, Most Accessible, Best Upcoming Developer and who got the infamous Best Sacrifice to the Demo Gods award. A number of honorable mentions are included too.

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multifl0w: Exposé style multitasking for jailbroken iPhones and iPads — Available for $4.99 from the Cydia app store, it claims to ‘work alongside or totally replace Apple’s task switcher’. It’s pretty, there’s no doubt about that. Other than running on the iPad right now, the key advantages are the ability to preview a snapshot of where you left the app off and being able to rearrange your app list. Personally, I like the minimal interface of iOS 4′s fast app switching app list, and the one I’m most likely to return to was recent enough it’ll be one of the latest apps on the current screen. How often do you need to know what the app you want to return to looks like? See their video for multifl0w in action. 8/22/10

iOSDevCamp 2010 Group Photo

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Joost Schuur

Here’s what a couple of hundred happy iOS developers look like after a weekend of hacking in San Jose at the 2010 iOSDevCamp:

iOSDevCamp 2010 Group Photo

Picture by Adam Tow.

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DragKit iOS Framework for Drag & Drop Behavior

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Joost Schuur

Fresh off the Twitter, Zac White‘s iOSDevCamp 2010 project DragKit won the award for best open source project, with the help of Barry Burton and Andy Mai. In their words:

Adding drag & drop to any application is easy.

With DragKit, it’s not only easy to add drag & drop within your own app, but also between apps. Any app that implements DragKit can continue drags made in other apps.

In an example on the site, a song is saved to a profile by dragging the album to the tab bar. Download DragKit from GitHub.

Check out who the other iOSDevCamp 2010 prize winners too.

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35 Websites That use the iPhone as Part of Their Design — Quality iPhone and Mac apps are often associated with beautiful web sites for them. Here is some inspiration if you’re designing one. 8/21/10

iOSDevCamp 2010, Day 1 Recap and Live Stream

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Joost Schuur

Video highlights from the first day of the fifth annual iOSDevCamp, being held this weekend at the PayPal headquarters in San Jose:

The event is also being live streamed on Ustream.

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