Erica Sadun
erica at ericasadun.com
Erica Sadun | 1:02 pm | November 16, 2009 | 3.x, Test Requests
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
Erica Sadun | 4:29 pm | November 15, 2009 | 3.x
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?
Erica Sadun | 10:43 am | | 3.x, Software
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.
Erica Sadun | 9:58 am | August 4, 2009 | Admin
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.)
Erica Sadun | 9:55 am | | 3.0, AppStore, iPod touch, iPhone
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.
Erica Sadun | 5:27 pm | July 15, 2009 | 3.0, Update, Software
Leave any feature requests in the comments please
Erica Sadun | 8:51 am | July 9, 2009 | Update, 3.0, Documentation, Coding, iPod touch, iPhone
3.0 docs are up. And if you didn’t see this, when it was first released in Beta ?3?, it provides a clear (and vaguely hilarious) view of Apple’s take on App Store and undocumented APIs.
Update: Craig Hockenberry has filed a radar insisting on more flame effects (and sending a thank you to Apple)
Erica Sadun | 3:57 pm | July 8, 2009 | Sample Code, 3.0, Test Requests, Books
…is up at github. Feedback welcome.
Erica Sadun | 7:46 am | | 3.0, Test Requests
If you haven’t been keeping track of me on Twitter (@ericasadun) be aware that I keep a folder on this site that I load up with items for testing. Most of these require you to sign an application using your personal credentials (a signit script is in that folder) or to test on a jailbroken system. Right now, I have a pair of items in there that provide a Mac-based clipboard server and an iPhone client that communicates with the server. Run the client and it retrieves any text stored on the Mac clipboard, ready for use on the iPhone.
Erica Sadun | 8:04 pm | June 30, 2009 | 3.0, 2.2, 2.1, 2.0, Utilities
I’ve put up a new version of Light that bypasses the sandbox issues that were preventing the app from reading the previous backlight level. To use, you must be a dev and need to sign the app. Both the app and the signing script are here