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How to build and submit a Universal App for distribution on the App Store with the iOS 4 SDK

Jul

9

Today I’ve been working on submitting an update to our popular Catholic Prayers database app: it’ll be our first Universal application to hit the App Store. Ever since we upgraded to the latest SDK we can only build for iOS 4, but we’ve set the iPhone OS Deployment Target to be 3.1.3. That way, our users should be able to run the app on devices running iPhone OS 3.x.

Xcode includes project templates for iPad apps and has a menu command (Project > Upgrade Current Target for iPad) that helps you get the project setup correctly when you want to add iPad support to your existing iPhone project. The Upgrade command gives you two options…

Tags: app store, ios 4, iphone os 4, iphone sdk, itunes connect, universal, xcode
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iPhone iOS 4: watch out designers! Apps icons display changes: no more transparency.

Jun

26

Mauro Dalu

I was so busy checking out the new iOS 4 features like folders and wallpapers, it took me a while to realize that the icons that used to be transparent now draw a black rounded-corners square behind the icon.

This is most certainly because the new wallpapers implementation draws shadows and glows around the icons to increase the readability and make the icons “pop out” independently of the image you set as your background.

Tags: ios 4, iphone 4, iphone os 4
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iPhone “4G”: new features, new colors, new OS

Jun

3

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.

Tags: apple, iphone, iphone os 4
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Apple’s iPhone OS 4 new terms and conditions to kill Flash CS 5, Rhodes and Appcellerator Titanium?

May

1

Mauro Dalu

Apple iPhone Developer Program License Agreement was updated in the iPhone 4.0 SDK to specifically prohibit the development of apps using “an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool,” which would include Adobe’s Flash, Sun’s Java, Microsoft’s Silverlight/Mono, Unity 3D games engine, and most Cross-platform development frameworks such as Rhomobile Rhodes and Appcelerator Titanium.

An existing clause in the developer license only prohibited the use of private APIs (that is, development features that Apple has not completed, documented, and disclosed as being available for public use). That has now been expanded to include prohibitions on developing iPhone apps in other languages or in other development environments that are then translated or cross-compiled into native iPhone apps. What does this mean for all these frameworks?

Tags: appcelerator, cs5, flash, iphone os 4, rhodes, rhomobile, titanium
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Apple’s iAd vs. Google’s AdMob: will iAd kill AdMob?

Apr

30

Mauro Dalu

Apple’s tent poles for iPhone OS 4 looked somewhat aimed at getting back markets in which 3rd parties have been filling the role so far: one of these is iAds. The dominating platform for mobile ads is currently AdMob, which provides a complete platform for advertising on mobile devices through web sites and mobile apps with CPM (impressions) and CPC (clicks) models. AdMob has been acquired by Google after the talks with Apple stalled for some unknown reason. Apple ended up acquiring Quattro Wireless.

Steve Jobs has presented iAds as a way to monetize free iPhone Apps by integrating interstitial, multimedia reach, interactive ads developed using HTML 5 technologies, much like the recently added iTunes LP for music and iTunes Extras for movies.

Tags: admob, iad, iphone beta, iphone os 4
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Apple’s iPhone “4G” launch on June 7 with iPhone OS 4

Apr

29

Mauro Dalu

Apple announced on Friday that WWDC 2010 will kick off on June 7, running through June 11 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. A date for the keynote was not announced, though it is expected to be June 7. One new rumor suggests the fourth-generation iPhone could go on sale immediately after it is announced.

A leaked prototype of Apple’s next-generation iPhone has already revealed that the handset will likely have a forward-facing camera for video chat, and camera flash to improve picture lighting, and a camera upgrade from 3.2 megapixels to 5.0 megapixels is expected.

Tags: apple, iphone, iphone 4g, iphone os 4
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Apple’s Game Center to kill Open Feint and Plus+ social gaming networks?

Apr

11

Mauro Dalu

With over 50,000 gaming titles on the App Store, Apple said it will be forming a social gaming network with features to invite friends, set up matchmaking for multiplayer games, support for leaderboards, and for tracking in game achievements.