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Creating iPad Apps Without Objective-C
Objective-C is a pain in the ass to learn. There, I said it. It’s got the best of C and the worst of garbage cleanup. So what is a developer supposed to do if they want to enter into the wild west of App Store development for the iPad? Well, this article covers three of the names out there that are alternates to the SDK 3.2 from Apple. Andrew talks about PhoneGap, RhoHub and Titanium as alternates to the Objective-C language that can compile down to the Objective-C bytecode. The big holdup with choosing a different language is twofold- First, you’re going to have to learn a language anyway and, while Objective-C can sometimes be like reading stereo instructions, Apple is doing everything it can to make learning Objective-C for the iPad … Read entire article »
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The Comeback of the Cocoa API
As the development world turns to the viability of iPad Applications, the number of tutorials and articles on languages such as Objective C and/or Cocoa are going through the roof. This is a decent highlight of the main reasons one should learn Cocoa. Cocoa, for those of you just getting into the iPad game, is a language that dates back to the old NeXT days and is used as an object-oriented API to building out interfaces. For those old-school VB folks, think of the Cocoa language as an OOP version of VB’s Interface Builder that you can use to work in xCode. While you’ll still need to know Objective-C to code your iPad applications, Cocoa is also one of the other major tools you’ll need in your belt to compete. If you’re … Read entire article »
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iPad Firmware and Apple iPhone SDK 3.2 Officially Released
10 days after release, Apple released it’s GM version of the iPad SDK 3.2. The iPhone SDK, available through Apple’s Developer Website, is the de-facto development tool for all App Store items that will run on both the iPhone and iPad. The beta release of the SDK 3.2 was made available to allow the iPad to get some traction with developers before the April 3rd launch date and ensure some applications would be available at shipping time. The iPad firmware release is available for users who are members of the Apple development community that charges $99 per year. For the amount of cash you can make in the App Store, it’s a small price to pay and the resources that are available through apple are simply amazing. You can tap into … Read entire article »
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iPad Jailbreak Pre-Launch
Before it even hits the shelves, a teenage hacker claims he has the iPad jailbreak solution already. Young George Hotz, the first to jailbreak the iPhone and iTouch, thinks his solution will work on the iPad as soon as it is released. While Hotz is not claiming 100% jailbreak at this point, the iPad is a large extension of the iTouch and iPhone family, and this leads to having the same hacker holes that those did as well. What Hotz claims is to have an untethered jailbreak solution for the iPad. A tethered jailbreak involves hacking into your tablet pc’s operating system to “liberate” it from the bindings of Apple’s store and policies. Essentially, what Hotz has supplied in the past is a simple website that accesses certain functions of the iPhone’s … Read entire article »
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