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APIkit public beta

Erica Sadun — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:44:28 +0000

I’ve opened up the APIkit beta, so feel free to download the utility and test it out. Please leave comments about how well it works for you, suggested improvements, etc.Usage is apiscanner path-to-appname.app

ScreenCapturePrefs

Erica Sadun — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:32:12 +0000

Just posted a little utility that I use for switching between tiff, png, and jpeg screen captures. Thought it might turn out to be useful to others — do let me know in the comments. Cheers!

Draw for iPhone

Erica Sadun — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:27:54 +0000

Well, weak linking didn’t work as well as I’d hoped with the Draw for iPhone update. The application currently runs only on firmware 4.0 and later. I’m working on getting an update out there, so please be patient.

Your MakeItMine prefs are showing up on your new iPhone 4

Erica Sadun — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:08:44 +0000

Hey all. I’m getting lots of e-mail requests to help with iPhone 4 units displaying their MakeItMine prefs. You restored from backup and the prefs traveled with that backup — and now you’re worried about bringing in your iPhone 4 to Apple.

So what do you do?

First, you can always restore your iPhone 4 and not restore from backup. That will allow you to bring in your iPhone to a genius bar without having a custom carrier. Alternatively, you can eliminate your com.apple.springboard.plist files from your backup folders. That allows you to restore from backup without bringing along the customization.

If you need to do the latter, download a copy of mdhelper from my Macintosh utilities folder. Run it at the command line as such:

./mdhelper -files com.apple.springboard.plist -list

The output includes “Matched File” listings, e.g.

Matched File: /Users/ericasadun/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/c4473bce90c232de9e1676fd10456b8c13b2029f-20091023-145902/662bc19b13aecef58a7e855d0316e4cf61e2642b.mdinfo

Those are the files you need to delete, that contain the com.apple.springboard.plist entries. Make sure you delete both the mdinfo file and any matching mddata file, which otherwise has the same name but the other extension.

An iPhone 4 jailbreak should be on the way momentarily and that will allow you to run MakeItMine directly.

For those of you who asked for a copy of the program, for self-signing and running, I’m afraid that won’t work for you. An iPhone needs to be jailbroken to be able to modify the com.apple.springboard.plist file, which lives outside the application sandbox. A self-signed standard app cannot update that file.

Good luck all, and let me know how it goes in the comments.

Doc Tool and Whiteboard now on App Store

Erica Sadun — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:14:45 +0000

Go have at ‘em. Doc Tool provides a handy viewer tool for many kinds of files and an entry point for “Open in” support for apps that offer that kind of app-to-app document transfer. Whiteboard is, well, a digital whiteboard. Both apps provide video out support so now’s a great time to try out your video-out cables with your iPad. An enhanced version of Whiteboard is waiting in Apple review, offering a way to load documents behind the main drawing, e.g. Powerpoint slides that you can draw on.

Upcoming Webinars

Erica Sadun — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:00:32 +0000

Classes include Bringing your interface to life with UIKit Animation, Creating custom UIControls, and Using the new UIDocumentInteractionController, all over the next three Tuesdays

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.