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iPhone Developer Conference: The April Edition

Erica Sadun — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:25 +0000

There’s just a couple of days left (until Friday, I believe aka “Before March 12th”) before the early bird registration goes away for the upcoming Seattle iPhone developer’s conference. Speakers this year include Aaron Hillegass, Jonathan Retzsch, August Trometer, Eric Buck, Mike Daley, and more. (Plus a few that are still getting confirmed.) Ping me for a discount code (leave a comment using a real e-mail address in your registration, you don’t have to leave the e-mail *in* the comment) and the cost gets cut down to $345 for the entire thing. The discount code will keep working after the 12th for a $150 discount.

APIkit goes Beta

Erica Sadun — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:01:03 +0000

As I posted on Twitter, APIkit is this because of this. In other words, it’s a developer response to Apple’s automated API scanning system, offering a proactive heads-up about method names and function names that might trigger a problem over in the App Store system.

DEVkit almost ready for release

Erica Sadun — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:13:56 +0000

The DEVkit components (BETAkit for soliciting beta tester feedback from within the application, VIDEOkit for providing drop-in video-out support for your app, TOUCHkit for adding a touch-feedback layer—Apple’s “white dots”, basically, and DEMOkit which provides a Powerpoint-style overlay layer for live app demos) are pretty much tested. Right now, I’m waiting on Brett to set up our site and figure out how we are going to distribute and support this material. (Any suggestions are welcome in the comments!) In the mean time, I’m still tooling away bit by bit at APIkit, which will scan a compiled-for-distribution app and provide a list of likely and potential issues that might pop up during App Store submission.

DEMOkit hits beta

Erica Sadun — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:14:18 +0000

I’ve opened up DEMOkit (thanks Brett for the strange casing!) for a limited beta. Let me know if you want in. Devs only.

BetaKit betatest

Erica Sadun — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:02:06 +0000

UPDATE: I have enough testers for now. I’ll open this up for more testers once things are more stable.

UPDATE: BetaKit 0.9 new look and feel. Screen shot here

I’ve started a small beta test of BetaKit. Ping me if you want in. BetaKit provides a floating invisible overlay over your app, when tapped in a hotspot (you set which corner), it opens an in-app e-mail populated with a screen shot, device information, any text you’ve output via NSLog(), and optional user feedback.The idea is that you add this to any app you’re sending out for beta testing, allowing users to send you screen shots and feedback while they are using the app. Screen shots of the interface in action: here and here

BetaKit

Erica Sadun — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:29:10 +0000

The whole idea behind DemoKit and the bit I’m working on now, which is BetaKit, is a suite of developer libraries that help you prepare your application before app store. BetaKit, which I’m still writing consists of a floating invisible windows with buttons at the corners that let your beta testers send in screen shots, console logs, device details, feedback, etc. directly from within the application. A delegate protocol allows you to supply a default e-mail address and message for the in-app mail composition controller. As with DemoKit, you can exclude the library from your AppStore submission with a flag that controls compiler directives.

Speaking of DemoKit, my friend Francis has asked that I add in custom font names and sizes (haven’t decided if this will be through .h declarations or through the telnet interface). Any other requests?

DemoKit

Erica Sadun — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:43:20 +0000

I’ve been putting together DemoKit recently, which provides a TV Out extension to UIApplication. You can see a demo of it in use here:YouTube Video.The point of the exercise is to provide in-house live demo abilities while being able to compile to a complete App Store friendly version that includes no illicit APIs. I’m not really sure where I’m taking DemoKit in the long range so if you have any ideas of how I could productize it, drop me a note.

iPhone Developer Conference

Erica Sadun — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:58:57 +0000

The Voices That Matter iPhone conference will be held in Boston Oct 17-18. Speakers to include Aaron Hillegass, Stephen Kochan, Andy Ihnatko, Daniel Jalkut, Jonathan Rentzsch, August Trometer, and more. Ping me for a discount code ($150 off. Plus $200 more off before Sept 12 as Early Bird discount.)

PasteCatcher now in App Store

Erica Sadun — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:55:15 +0000

PasteCatcher lets you copy things like pictures, text, and urls on your Mac and serve them to your iPhone. PasteCatcher copies them to your iPhone’s pasteboard. (iTunes link). See this page for more details.

To Do for 3.0 is live in App Store

Erica Sadun — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:27:49 +0000

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