First fruits of the iPhone SDK: ToDo App
Sometime yesterday afternoon, as soon as her download finished, our friend and colleague turned up her iTunes, closed her office door and tore into the iPhone SDK with all the excitement of a kitten attacking a new skein of yarn. 24 hours, not much sleep and a diet of flat food later, she emerges with her quarry: a shiny new application for iPhone and iPod touch, ToDo App.
This marathon initial effort provides basic todo list features -- adding, listing and deleting. Here's the catch: for now, the only place you can run it is inside the Aspen simulator in Xcode; as soon as Apple starts delivering signing keys to registered and paid developers, those will allow the app to be loaded and tested on physical phones.
In addition to the coding frenzy, Erica found the time to revise her iPhone frameworks documentation and header notes to version 1.2, which reflects the SDK edition. After a long sojourn in the wildnerness of the community toolchain, the iPhone devs can see what appears to be the promised land. Here's to the crazy ones.
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Does anyone know if using your iPhone for development has an adverse affects on the phone itself? Does everything still work after provisioning it for development? Does it erase any data already on the phone? What are the chances of bricking the phone? Can it be restored?
March 13 2008 at 10:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyi'm very new to the developer thing (although i've been a fanboy for years now), but with what i know, i'd go for objective-C and Cocoa.
creating projects for iPhones in XCode gives you Cocoa Touch Application, Lists and Toolbar
Oooh, now if someone can just make a to-do list organizer like the collapsible outliner from Apple's Newton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Notes). Nothing could be better, especially on a small screen, for organizing thoughts, priorities, sub-tasks, etc.
Am I the only person that gets the reference to Douglas Coupland's excellent novel, Microserfs?
March 09 2008 at 10:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replybasically you need objective -c to write iphone apps.. I've downloaded many pdf's around 300 pages just to get started with UI, HI and obj-c..
AppStore will be up and running in june with iphone 2.0 software update.. Just watch the last appearance of steve on the video on apple.com (last 15 mins) where he talks about what the app store is and how it functions
Haven't seen anybody quite come out and say this yet, and I guess we won't know for sure until the key start getting issued... but is the AppStore up and running yet? As in, are developers going to be able to start pushing out Apps for "other developers" [read - beta hungry folks like me with limited coding skill but who are MORE than happy to plunk down $99 to get it nownownownownownownownow]?
I can totally see that not everyone is going to want to open source their code just so we can install it on our own "beta test" iphones. So is there a way to distribute packages yet? Does it look like it?
Great app!
Now, does it synchronize with iCal?
Does the SDK provide conduits (as per Palm)?
To code for the iPhone or Touch, what particular knowledge do you need? Objective C, Cocoa, etc? Where is the best place to learn these things? I'm a PhD student Cancer Biology, but really love computer science, but haven't had much exposure. Also, where is a good place to meet people who are proficient in order to collaborate on some ideas for apps geared towards scientists?
March 08 2008 at 7:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI downloaded the sdk kit but it seems the xcode organizer doesn't support jailbroken iPhones:( it says "This device is not activated. Please activate it using iTunes" and this brings an automatic lock to the organizer's application control screen..
March 08 2008 at 5:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI was wondering if it is possible to hire Erica for some iPhone programming.
March 08 2008 at 12:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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