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IPhone Development Update #1

Peter Geddis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:39:32 +0000

Almost 400 pages into the great Beginning Iphone Development 3 book, turns out iphone development is alittle more tricky then one might assume! Making steady progress through the topics however and by the end of the month i’ll have covered all the topics required to make an app using the various features, on reason for the slow pace is the difficulty in learning the rather large low-level chunks of code in a new coding style that achieve small goals such as allowing data persistence or access to various folders resources are stored in

I’ve come up with a few solid ideas of what to attempt, need to finalize these details but until then i’m just going to continue creating a few small apps to practice with, next practice app is going graphical with usage of the intriguing Quartz and OpenGL sdk/packages and hopefully Apple have made it simple to do stuff

I mean if all goes well the app ideas may be revisualized in a more funkier graphical look then those overused navigation and tab controller bars

Keep your ears tuned for more updates soon!

iPhone OS 3.0 battery sucks, really really sucks!

Peter Geddis — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:33:05 +0000

Since upgrading to the fabled OS 3.0 on my 2g iphone i’ve noticed a sharp trend in just how quickly my battery dies, before the update it used to be pretty decent (i was charging once a day but thats cause i’m a wi-fi thief ), nothing major at all.

After however its simply rubbish, recently I had to perform 3 full charge cycles (charged to full and drained completely) in a single day!. Pretty staggering as I wasn’t even using my phone much at the time

Anyway message to Apple – TAKE A BREAK FROM BUILDING WHITE PLASTIC OBJECTS AND SORT THIS OUT!

Apple keeps this up and I’m gonna have to switch to something else!

Recent OS 3.0 battery life link

Apple strikes again, app blocking to the max

Peter Geddis — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:18:38 +0000

yes