Robert Lysik's List: Mobile App Dev

"“I know HTML5 can get the job but can HTML5 DO the job? I’m NOT arguing that with you. I’m not arguing that with YOU. I’m not ARGUING that with you. I’m not ARGUING that with you Harry! Harry… Harry… Yeah Harry… but can HTML5 DO the job. I know HTML5 can GET the job but can HTML5 do the job?”"

"I’m tired of seeing sidebars on my phone. It’s great that my phone can handle every page on the web, and I can muddle through, but it’s been four years since the iPhone killed the “mobile web” distinction and it’s time for web design to catch up. I can’t do anything about ugly design, but I can at least make it dead simple to show your mobile users a different ugly stylesheet."

"As an iPhone/iPad developer, it can be really useful to be able to write your own simple web services that integrate with your apps.

For example, you may wish to display some news updates that come from your web server, and display it on startup. Or perhaps store some user data “in the cloud”. Your imagination is the only limit!"

"this simple tutorial will give you a clear idea of how to go about:

Creating a navigation-based app
Creating new class objects
Populating a UITableView with an array of objects
Transitioning between views"

"As an iOS developer, you often need to use a web service from your app.

Sometimes you need to use a web service that someone else has written, and sometimes you need to use one of your own!

In this tutorial, you’ll get hands-one experience with using web services, by writing an iOS app that communicates with a simple web service that allows you to redeem promo codes to unlock extra content."

"RedLaser is a free scanning application for iPhone and Android that has
been downloaded over 12 million times and has about as many uses."

"Corona's framework dramatically increase productivity. Tasks like animating objects in OpenGL or creating user-interface widgets take only one line of code, and changes are instantly viewable in the Corona Simulator. You can rapidly test without lengthy build times."

"Romotive builds accessible, highly functional, and flexible robotics platforms that are powered by a supercomputer already carried by millions–the smartphone.

Our robotics platform adds everything that the smartphone is missing–movement, accessories, and physical capabilities that a true robot needs."

"There's no faster or easier way to get started building a game than with GameSalad Creator. Its visual, drag & drop based style requires absolutely no coding whatsoever. Avoid spending hours poring over code, and spend more time finding the fun."

"We’ll build a simple Tuts+ RSS reader, using PHP and jQuery Mobile. When we’re finished, you’ll have the ability to add this simple project to your iPhone or Android phone with the click of a button, as well as the skills to build your own custom mobile web apps!"

"o celebrate the v2.0 of my successful and innovative app Word Wizard, and the fact that I’ve made $200,000 on the App Store, I’ve decided to share figures about the education market on the App Store, and by the way to talk a little about bit about my story and experience being an indie developer. I hope it can help some indie devs to make some decisions, as I did more than one year ago after reading some posts."

With the growing complexity of JavaScript applications, frameworks are an absolute must if you need to meet real world deadlines. In this article, we’re going to take a look at a new framework called Spine Mobile which you can use to create awesome mobile applications in CoffeeScript and HTML, without sacrificing the great user experience of native apps.

"I’ve noticed, in looking at other people’s Cocoa code over the years, that sometimes people still do weird things with retain, release, and autorelease — as if they’re not quite sure on the basics of memory management yet."

Based on Big Nerd Ranch''s popular "Beginning iPhone Bootcamp," iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads beginners through the essential facets of iPhone application development. After completing the guide, readers will have the confidence to take on iPhone projects of their own. The confidence comes from the guide's emphasis on building applications while learning the necessary programming concepts.

"This blog post describes my experience of learning how to write iOS software, after having spent many years exclusively in the world of .NET development. It provides warnings, suggestions, and tips for others who are interested in learning iOS development. The post ends with a qualitative comparison of programming in WPF and iOS."

"Among other things, Objective-C lets you do function currying, adding and removing methods from classes at runtime, and reflection.

Unless you've played with other languages that support these features, like Ruby or Lisp, then this feels really weird. Don't worry! Lots of great things feel really weird the first time you try them, like broccoli or sexual intercourse."