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I was working on my iPhone app last night. It requires the features of iOS4. I found a weird behavior. When I ran my app in debug mode on a device, it ran properly. When I ran my app in release mode on a device, I was getting behavior like I was running
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You may have been hearing about the iOS Version 4 a lot. You probably have installed it onto your iPhone/iPod Touch devices. It's got a couple of cool features that I think are significant. One is the ability to run applications in the background.
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Now, we're 8-9 months down the road from my last posts on Windows Phone, Google Android, and the general mobile marketplace. Wow, how things have changed. First off, Google Android has really taken off in its number of units in the marketplace. While
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Software developers are creatures of extremes. They can love, love, love you one day, and hate, hate, hate you the next day. Right now, we're riding the crest of this love for MonoTouch. Well, we all must remember that Apple is a very interesting
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Link to original post . Subscribe to Everything . Subscribe to WMV . Subscribe to M4V . Subscribe to MP3 . Download WMV . Download M4V . Download MOV . Download MP3 . Show Notes: Apple, Developers, and Licensing. Why Develop on the iPhone. What is Mono
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I've come to the conclusion that Apple won't change Section 3.3.1 of their new license. How can I come to that conclusion? There are several reasons for this. I think the reasons below are the major ones: Apple wants to keep their platform from
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It looks like we now know the cause of the iPhone SDK Licensing change is. According to AppleInsider, in a email discussion suppossedly with Steve Jobs , the quote is: .....,and said he believes there are a number of applications written with cross-platform
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I'm a developer. I've written code that runs on a number of different platforms. Over the past 15 years, I've specialized on the Microsoft, and specifically .NET, platform. I've watched the iPhone grow up over the past three years, and
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I'm a database type of guy. I like data. I work with data all the time. One thing that is common across all database is the need to retrieve the row identifier of a record that was just inserted. Oracle has a sequences. Sql Server has scope_identity().
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Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and yes, you can do development on the iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta, monotouch, monodevelop, C#, and the iPhone today. I did a check of the System Information and boom, the System Version reports 3.2. PS. Somebody on twitter
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If you didn't know it, the iPhone has two twenty second rules that developers need to pay attention to: The iPhone has a startup timer. If an application takes longer than 20 seconds to start up, it is killed by the iPhone OS. The iPhone OS will kill
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With .NET, executables are fairly small. Every application shares the .NET Framework, so the applications don’t have their own copy of the framework. MonoTouch is not built into the iPhone. MonoTouch applications must have their own copy of the framework.
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I bought this book a few weeks ago. I've been reading it and trying to absorb the features in the iPhone's version of Safari. I'm impressed. This book contains a huge amount of information about Safari on the iPhone. So, why is this important
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There are times when the user needs to be presented with some information or question. MonoTouch has a UIAlertView object. The UIAlertView is instantiated with a set of parameters. On the object instance, the .Show() method is called. For .NET developers,
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The NSUrl class is what allows an application to open other applications within the iPhone OS while passing parameters. The calling sequence is fairly simple. There are two steps to making this call: 1. When the NSUrl class is instantiated, a string representing
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