Apple UK continues to show that they don’t have a clue how to operate a retail operation. We’ve got an app that’s demoing today and tomorrow, and it would help if I had an extra iPhone4 to run it on. So, I try to buy one from the local Apple […]
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Rebooting again, everything killed thanks to Xcode4, I thought of xkcd’s comic on “compiling”, and a little modification came to mind: Appropriately, working with Xcode3 often suffered from time wasted for the weak compiler to churn through relatively tiny projects. We’ve moved on – Xcode4 has a much better compiler/linker/build […]
Did that get your attention? In the last day or so, I’ve seen a barrage of crap on this topic – much of it ACTIVELY destructive (it’ll make your iPhone apps less successful than if you didn’t do it!). I’m not going to hotlink most of them – they don’t […]
Oh, yes: http://xkcd.com/869/ …please, FOR THE CHILDREN, don’t put a “make it look like an iPhone app, but remove 90% of the content” theme on your website.
…if you: finish it and design it and build it and test it and refine it and launch it and sell it and market it …for me. This was the tempting offer whispered in my ear this evening by a hard-up web-developer at a networking event, once we were alone, […]
Another interesting post from Dan Lee Rogers on whether the money paid for ngmoco last year was reasonable. (hint: Dan is clearly rather doubtful, IMHO with good reason) E.g. … Further, Ms. Namba stated that DeNA’s purchase decision was based ngmoco’s ability to create hit iPhone games, which begs the […]
Despite this week’s PR disaster for Sony Ericsson, their new Android phone (due out soon) looks fantastic: http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/2011/01/06/next-step-%e2%80%93-xperia%e2%84%a2-arc/ Personally, I am convinced that Sony Ericsson makes the best Android phones available, bar none. e.g. although many people prefer the X10 full size, I still think the Xperia X10 Mini is […]
Google keeps improving Android. Android version 2.2 is one of the most important releases ever – it speeds up the whole phone (every game, every app, runs noticeably faster), along with bugfixes and new features. Sony Ericsson has caused much hate among consumers by shipping their flagship phones with OS […]
UPDATE: updated August 2011, with more detailed / idiot-proof instructions – and a couple of shortcuts. NB: when you’ve done this install once, and checked the relevant bits into your Source Control, it becomes *very* fast/easy to re-install – it’s only long-winded the first time. I thought I’d blogged this […]
I’ve written lots of apps for iPhone/iPad and Android. Recently, Nokia kindly gave me a new N8. So, over Xmas, I thought it would be fun to write some games for it. Didn’t get very far. Nokia “only supports Windows”, according to their developer site. There also seems to be […]
Even if you own a Nintendo DS or a Sony PlayStationPortable, there’s a high chance you’re playing games on your phone instead: “27.2% of consumers who indicate that they play games on their phones only (and not on the DS/PSP) actually own a DS or PSP, but do not actively […]
This week, I won a Nokia N8 at a game of pool (She Rides!). If you plug it in to a Mac, do you get: Access to your photos? NO! (no support for the USB standard for data-devices) Access to your calendar? NO! (this is a tough one; sadly, the […]
Last GDC, we made an iPhone app for friends at the conference, but it got stuck in submission for too long (Apple was being paranoid about anything with location/GPS at the time. Sigh) and only a handful of people got to use the app (our beta testers). We ended up […]
As Tom puts it: “Spelling curtesy of Iphone” “Periods everywhere? Sorry, this email was composed on Google’s Nexus One” Mobile signatures: a new artform…? Other good ones out there – any favourites? (the less imaginative, literal one above is mine, I think. Now in hiding, since I’m back on iPhone […]
We launched an app this week that’s been exhaustively tested: 2G, 3G, 3G S, 4 iPod 2/3, iPod 4 OS 3.1, 3.1.3, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 10+ different human testers Apple’s own testing (App-review process) …and yet we’re getting 1-star reviews on the app store, citing “this app crashes on startup”. […]
As an iPhone developer, I often encounter companies that try to save a lot of money by making a mobile website and then claiming (to their partners / customers / advertisers) that it’s an iPhone app. In some cases, I believe this is a good idea – they don’t have […]
A couple of years ago, someone setup this neat, handy, site: http://www.flavorstudios.com/iphone-icon-generator (DON’T USE THIS) …but their web skills were poor, and their script kept crashing, and they couldn’t be bothered either to fix it or to document the bugs. Or even to just … you know … release it […]
After 2 years, Apple finally shares the list of reasons that they reject apps (approximately 100 or so – it’s not complete, but it’s close) This is big news – finally, professionals can act professionally and do their own QA before submitting apps, rather than just wishing and praying. (http://apprejections.com/index.php/post/264)
If you are an iPhone developer – or if you know any iPhone developers – don’t upgrade your device to 3.1.3, and more importantly: don’t upgrade to the latest Xcode. (this came out last week) Among the regression bugs (i.e. stuff that they fixed in the previous version, but because […]
Google is giving away free Nexus One handsets to mobile developers attending the GDC this year Google is not a games company; Google has never shown any interest in the $75 billion (roughly) games industry. Suprising? Not really … $75 billion *for the entire industry* is smaller than some individual […]