Tag Archives: iPhone
Steve Jobs on Flash
Nice description of why no Flash on iPhone/Pad by Steve Jobs “Adobe’s Flash products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Adobe, and Adobe has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by [...]
iPhone 4 SDK bans Flash, Java, Mono…
Apple just slapped Adobe/Flash again http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/08/apples_iphone_4_sdk_license_bans_flash_java_mono_apps.html http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler
iPhone SDK Alternatives
Besides xCode, here are couple alternate iPhone SDKs. At first glance/installation, Corona makes it dead simple to create flash like games/interactions. It uses a simple LUA scripting language. The Unity 3D for the iPhone is a subset of the larger Unity 3D engine but definitely worth a look if you are building a game or [...]
Flash CS5 for iphone – well sorta…
Wonder about the performance, but worth checking out. From Mike Chambers’ Blog, “The next version of Flash Authoring will enable developers to create stand-alone iPhone applications using Flash technologies (including ActionScript 3). These applications are just like any other iPhone application and can be distributed via the Apple iTunes Application store. Indeed, there are already [...]
Edward Tufte on the iPhone UI
Video here: Edward Tuft on the iPhone UI My favorite line: computer administrative debris Interface design and the iPhone “The iPhone platform elegantly solves the design problem of small screens by greatly intensifying the information resolution of each displayed page. Small screens, as on traditional cell phones, show very little information per screen, which in [...]
iPhone Optimized DavidEhlers.com
Installed a nifty plugin and wordpress theme by content.robot to optimize this site for iPhone users – check it out with your iPhone. The iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. It detects the iPhone/iPod touch’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special [...]
iPhone SDK
Revised iPhone sdk with Interface Builder at http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program The iPhone Developer Program provides a complete and integrated process for developing, debugging, and distributing your free, commercial, or in-house applications for iPhone and iPod touch. Complete with development resources, real-world testing on iPhone, and distribution on the App Store, you have everything you need to go [...]