Tag ‘iphone’

App submission changes

Brad Midgley

If you have an existing project and you try to resubmit to the app store, you are likely to run into a problem with the changes Apple has made.

Error: The binary you uploaded was invalid. The bundle did not contain an icon for iPad of exactly 72×72 pixels, in .png format.

Solution: Add a .png to your project of this size, then go to Info.plist, add a new key CFBundleIconFiles, rick-click it and change it to an array, and for values

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Develop your WebGL strategy now

Brad Midgley

WebGL is a developing standard for delivering 3D content inside an HTML5 canvas.

The spec hasn’t reached a 1.0 version yet, but Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome have support we can try out in their nightly builds for the draft version. I had the best luck on both Linux and OSX in trying out WebGL by using firefox nightly builds. There are several documents out there to help you try it… see here

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How to: unable to build for iPhone OS 3.1.3 after iPhone SDK iOS 4 upgrade

Mauro Dalu

If you upgraded your iPhone SDK to the final version supporting iOS 4, you have noticed that everything older then SDK 3.2 vanished. After some research, I found out you can build with 4.0 SDK and still run on devices with earlier versions of the firmware.

If you want to be compatible with iPhone OS 3.x you still compile for SDK 4.0, but set the target settings to tell that yout iPhone app can run on 3.x (iPhone OS Deployment Target). If you did not use any iOS 4.0 specific APIs then your app will run smoothly on 3.x and 4.x… Read on to learn more.

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iPhone: How to import photos, screenshots, movies and video without iPhoto

Mauro Dalu

If you need to quickly import movies, photos or screenshots to your Mac and want to avoid iPhoto, here’s a quick tip for you.

Introducing “Image Capture”, a very simple utility bundled with Mac OS X that will allow you to move media files from any device to your hard disk or to another supported app.

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JQTouch mobile app integration with SmartFoxServer

Brad Midgley

In the previous articles on  http://surgeworksmobile.com/cross-platform/jqtouch-mobile-app-for-user-registration-tutorial, I focused on the JQTouch side of things. I’d like to mention the ingredients to make the app work with SmartFoxServer since that can be tricky.

I built both grails and jython web services to serve as the back end interface for this application. Unfortunately, both these implementations would not work with SFS, so I made a very simple JSP servlet to handle registration requests.

First, the structure of

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TagCloudView 1.0 released by Surgeworks Mobile — iPad support included

We are happy to announce commercial release of our 3D tag control that has been asked for in multiple inquiries through our website. The 1.0 package includes a multiplatform static library that you can link to your projects together with exhaustive documentation and sample applications for both iPhone and iPad.

TagCloudView is written by using purely UIKit without any OpenGL or 3rd party libraries.

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iPhone “4G”: new features, new colors, new OS

Mauro Dalu

The new iPhone is expected to be announced in a few days at Apple’s WWDC. This time there’s a lot known and just a little unknowns, since a prototype iPhone was “found in a bar” and sold to Gizmodo earlier this year.

The next generation iPhone is expected to feature: front-facing video chat camera, improved back-camera with flash, micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad), increased screen resolution (960×640?) and a new design. Photos of a white version (both back and forth panels) surfaced recently.

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More than 1 million iPads sold, iPad 3G sold out, international sales just starting

Mauro Dalu

Apple has sold nearly 90 million iPhone OS devices worldwide, and recently announced it has sold more than a million iPad devices. Meanwhile, the iPad 3G remains completely sold out in the U.S. weeks after its release.

“One million iPads in 28 days — that’s less than half of the 74 days it took to achieve this milestone with iPhone,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “Demand continues to exceed supply,” he claimed, “and we’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more customers.”

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