iPhone Dev ← Indie Ambitions

Great Day of the Apple Console has Arrived (or has it)

Mar

8

2014

When Apple introduced hardware controller support in iOS 7 and now with the release of the first bluetooth connected controller (plus the lightning to HDMI cable that’s always existed), you can now connect the controller to the phone or iPad and plug the cable into an HD TV and you have a console like experience ...

New Core Image Chapter in iOS 6 By Tutorials 4

Sep

26

2012

iOS 6 by Tutorials was released a few days ago. The response has been really amazing. We’ve had almost as many retweets in the first week as we had all month last time. The new book is almost twice the size of iOS 5 by Tutorials. You can buy the book with a $10 early ...

iOS 5 by Tutorials Now Available in Print!

May

1

2012

My book can now be purchased on Amazon. Vol1 and Vol2. My chapters on Core Image and Turn Based Gaming are both in the second Volume. But, if you’re a programmer, the thing is full of awesome. I refer to it every time I need to break out ARC or Storyboards or Twitter integration.

My Quest to Learn OpenGL 3

Feb

7

2012

This post is going to be all about openGL. I don’t explain it from a beginner’s perspective, so if you are new the the openGL API, it may not be easy to follow. I have listed what I think are the best resources in the bottom paragraph. If you’re new, definitely read those, especially Jeff ...

Quick Tip about Disabling ARC on Multiple Files at Once 4

Nov

5

2011

I found this comment on stackoverflow, pixelfreak is the author. But, there are multiple places where it is said that you cannot set the -fno-objc-arc flag on multiple files at once in Xcode. Not true. You can read it from the source here. But, here’s the deal. I, and doubtless many of you, use third ...

Alphabet Zoo on 60 Minutes 1

Oct

24

2011

Our first app, Alphabet Zoo, was something we put together to teach kids letter sound association. Last night on 60 minutes, there was a story about iPads helping autistic kids, and a couple times in the program they are playing with Alphabet Zoo. Kind of awesome. At about 6 mintues in and again at the ...

Upgrading to Lion and Xcode 4.1

Jul

20

2011

I had seen a bunch of my Apple Dev friends using Lion and so when it went live today I downloaded it first thing. But, there were a couple of things that I had to do in order to get my dev environment going again (and a few I still haven’t figured out). Once Lion ...

Roll your own Testflight 1

Jul

6

2011

Ad-Hoc testing on the iphone platform is kind of a pain. It got a lot easier with Ad-Hoc web distribution, ala Testflight, but, I wanted to build a script that I could use to create a build that would be uploaded to my own web server, right from the build in Xcode. This has taken ...