Why iPhone users want more choice
March 26 2011
A recent article in FierceWireless Europe (March 11) reviewed findings by market research company Analysys Mason, which speculates on how ‘exclusive content’ could become the next battle ground for operators trying to control customer churn. Specifically, the article states: Worryingly, Analysys Mason claims its research found that 25 per cent of iPhone owners would switch [...]
Build Web Apps for iPhone using Dashcode
February 5 2011
So far, much mobile developer attention has been fixated on the iPhone SDK released by Apple to build native iPhone applications. This is understandable, since with the SDK you can write native iPhone apps that take full advantage of the capabilities provided by the device, such as accessing the accelerometer, the camera, as well as [...]
Free iPhone Programming PDF
January 31 2011
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hopefully you’ve been enjoying our series of iPhone articles over previous weeks.The topics recently covered in this series have looked at both developing native apps with Xcode, and developing webapps with Dashcode. Xcode and Dashcode are two IDEs supplied with the iPhone SDK. Now you can get a PDF [...]
Location in iPhone Web Apps
January 25 2011
One of the key limitations of developing Web applications for iPhone is that you are not allowed to access the hardware on the device via the Web browser. For example, you cannot access the camera on the iPhone; neither can you access the accelerometer. This seriously limits the kinds of applications you can develop on [...]
Offline iPhone Web Apps
January 23 2011
One of the several features outlined in the HTML 5 specification is the support for Web applications that continue to work while they are offline. This feature is very useful for Web applications because a Web application can be loaded just once and then run offline without needing a persistent Internet connection, making it behave [...]
SMS Bubble UI in iPhone Apps
January 20 2011
Users of iPhone are no stranger to the built-in SMS application that displays your messages using cute little bubbles (see Figure 1). However, this innovative UI feature is not exposed to the iPhone developers – you have to create it yourself if you want to have the same look-and-feel of the SMS application. Creating this [...]
iPhone TopSites
January 5 2011
apple iphone Topsites is the guide to help everything iPhone on-line. Here you may see listed your net’s top rated iPhone user discussion forums, iPhone media sites, along with iPhone sites. Looking through buyer, you’ll furthermore find numerous related marketing, such since iPhone movies, ringtones, wallpapers, along with skins. Know about the long term iPhone [...]