iphone

iPhone app in landscape mode

What's the best way to create an iPhone application that runs in landscape mode from the start, regardless of the position of the device? Both programmatically and using the Interface Builder....

How do I give my web sites an icon for iPhone?

How do I set the icon that appears on the iPhone for the web sites I create?...

What are the correct pixel dimensions for an apple-touch-icon?

I'm not sure what the correct size should be. Many sites seem to repeat that the apple-touch-icon should be 57x57 pixels but cite a broken link as their source. Hanselman's and playgroundblues's comments suggest different sizes including 163x163 and 60x60. Apple's own apple.com icon is 129x129! See my related question: How do I give ...

How-to articles for iPhone development, Objective-C

I am looking for an introduction into developing for the iPhone. Any recommendation? I do not speak Objective-C either, so tutorials on that would not hurt either. ...

Understanding reference counting with Cocoa / Objective C

I'm just beginning to have a look at Objective C and Cocoa with a view to playing with he iPhone SDK. I'm reasonably comfortable with C's malloc and free concept, but Cocoa's references counting scheme has me rather confused. I'm told it's very elegant once you understand it, but I'm just not over the hump yet. I guess my question is, c...

iPhone web applications, templates, frameworks?

Does anyone have any good starting points for me when looking at making web pages/sites/applications specifically for viewing on the iPhone? I've looked at templates like the one Joe Hewitt has made, and also seen some templates I can purchase, which I haven't done yet. I figured someone else had already started on this track and decid...

iPhone - Exchange Calendars in Public Folders

I'm trying to get iPhone to play nice with all my work calendars that sync over exchange. My personal calendar works great with adding/remove events. However, my department calendar which is in a public folder does not show up at all. Anyone know a work around? ...

How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone?

Does anybody know if it's possible, and how, to programmatically send a SMS from the iPhone, with the official SDK / Cocoa Touch? ...

Best Wiki for Mobile Users

Most wiki software I've presents lots of "features" on their pages. This is fine for desktop users, but is annoying when using an iPhone or other mobile device. I'd prefer pages that just had the content, along with maybe an Edit button and a Search button. The editors are also often too fancy for mobile users; a simple multi-line edi...

Recommended iPhone Development Resources

Hello; This is my first post here and I wanted to get some input from people doing iPhone development. Other than the Apple DevCenter, where are there good sites to learn iPhone developement? I know Apple has a tough NDA but there has to be people talking about writing applications for the iPhone. Thank you, Rob Bazinet ...

How can I develop for iPhone using a Windows development machine?

Is there any way to tinker with the iPhone SDK on a Windows machine? Are there plans for an iPhone SDK version for Windows? The only other way I can think of doing this is to run a Mac VM image on a VMWare server running on Windows, although I'm not too sure how legal this is. ...

What's a good machine for iPhone development?

I'm going to be working on some iPhone apps so I've been given a golden ticket to buy a Mac. However the golden ticket isn't worth that much, and I'm thinking iMac. Now, Macs are great, I love 'em and use 'em at home, but I know that the iMac is geared more towards the average consumer than the professional. Is an iMac going to be powerf...

Virtual Mac?

I’m thinking about trying some development for the iPhone, is it possible to install Leopard inside VMWare? I already have a pretty high spec PC with a comfy setup that I’d like to use, or do I need to buy a real Mac? ...

iPhone app that access the Core Location framework over web

I was wondering if I could access the iPhones Core Location framework over a website? My goal is to build a webapp/website that the iPhone would browse to, then upload its current GPS location. This would be a simple site primary for friends/family so we could locate each other. I can have them manually enter lng/lat but its not the eas...

Tips for a successful AppStore submission?

In a day or two I'll be ready to submit my iPhone app to the AppStore and I'm curious whether people who have gone through this process have any tips / suggestions for a smooth submission process. Here's things I've covered; No memory leaks Tested performance on an actual device Doesn't crash :) Using correct certificates / profile ...

How can I launch the Google Maps iPhone application from within my own native application?

The Apple Developer Documentation explains that if you place a link in a web page and then click it whilst using Mobile Safari on the iPhone, the Google Maps application that is provided as standard with the iPhone will launch. How can I launch the same Google Maps application with a specific address from within my own native iPhone app...

Is there a multiplatform framework for developing iPhone / Android applications?

I am interested in writing applications for the iPhone and the Android platform. I was hoping to find a middleware / framework that abstracted away some of the differences in the APIs and allow me to specify the target platform at build time. Is there such a framework existing or planned? ...

Deleting messages from Exchange IMAP mailbox on iPhone

I have a secondary Exchange mailbox configured on my iPhone using IMAP. This all appears to work fine except when a message is deleted on the phone, it still shows normally in Outlook. It does not seem to matter what I set the "remove deleted messages" setting to on the phone. I understand this is due to a combination of the phone not e...

iPhone App Minus App Store?

I've been looking into iPhone development, but I've been having problems coming up with the answer to a certain question. If I create an application on my Mac, is there any way I can get it to run on an iPhone without going through the app store? It doesn't matter if the iPhone has to be jailbroken, as long as I can still run an applic...

Is it just the iPhone simulator that is restricted to intel only Mac's?

I have read that the iPhone SDK (part of xcode 3) is restricted to Mac's with the intel chipset. Does this restriction apply to only the simulator part of the SDK or the complete shebang? I have a Powerbook g4 running Leopard and would very much like to do dev on it rather than fork out for a new machine. It is also worth clarifying th...