Cocoa Machine

Cocoa Machine http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/ OS X & iOS Development en-US Copyright 2011 Thu, 05 May 2011 10:05:26 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification XCode 4 Tutorial 1.1 - Hello Cocoa Touch - iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod) SDK XCode Development In this tutorial in the iOS Development Tutorial series, I amend Tutorial 1 and show you how to do it in XCode 4. I also do an overview of the XCode 4 interface.

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2011/05/xcode-4-tutorial-11---hello-co.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2011/05/xcode-4-tutorial-11---hello-co.html Cocoa Tutorials iPhone ios xcode4 iphone cocoa touch tutorial series Thu, 05 May 2011 10:05:26 -0500 iOS SDK Development Tutorial 1 - Hello Cocoa Touch We get into creating your first application with Interface Builder and discussing the application lifecycle.

Part 1

Part 2

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/09/ios-development-tutorial-1---h.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/09/ios-development-tutorial-1---h.html Cocoa Tutorials iPhone apple interface builder ios ipad iphone tutorial xcode Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:18:41 -0500 iOS SDK Development Tutorial 0 - Getting Started

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/09/ios-development-tutorial-0---g.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/09/ios-development-tutorial-0---g.html apple certs development ios ipad iphone ipod provisioning xcode Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:39:38 -0500 iOS SDK Development Tutorial - Background

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/09/ios-development-tutorial---bac.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/09/ios-development-tutorial---bac.html apple ios ipad iphone ipod programming tutorial Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:02:08 -0500 Android Battery Test Reveals Droid X Lasts Longest, AMOLED Handsets Trail Daring Fireball

The Motorola phones have significantly better battery life. The Droid X and Droid 2 finished at the top; handsets with AMOLED screens finished at the bottom. So, AMOLED: colors look weird, you can't see them in sunlight, the components are in short supply, and battery life is worse.

(They turned Flash Player off for the tests; would be interesting to see if turning it on makes a difference.)

I think we all know the answer to whether Flash Player would make a difference on battery life or not, if enabled.

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/08/android-battery-test-reveals-d.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/08/android-battery-test-reveals-d.html Active-matrix OLED Adobe Flash Android Batteries Battery Business Droid Electronics and Electrical Handhelds Motorola Smartphones Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:08:30 -0500 Best LED Flashlight App for iPhone 4 - Light-O-Matic :)

Light-O-Matic

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/07/best-led-flashlight-app-for-ip.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/07/best-led-flashlight-app-for-ip.html flashlight i4 iphone led flashlight. Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:09:46 -0500 I am alive, Mixr DJ app for iPad, and tutorials.

It has been awhile since my last confession, but a lot has happen since. Around January, my company DS Media Labs was acquired by Apperian through a talent/IP acquisition. Let's just say that while it was fun and we did some cool stuff, in the end it did not work out and I resigned. I just left the company to go out on my own again. There will be more details to be revealed about the new company over the next couple weeks. I will be at WWDC with my new team.

My current project is called Mixr. It is a professional DJ application for iPad. My friend Noe and I had been working on it pretty hard, when we joined forces with our new team. This new team/company is fantastic. I am pretty stoked right now. I can not wait to get it out in the hands of some pros to use.

I have received a lot of feedback on doing the tutorial videos on IPhone and iPad development. Thank you for all the suggestions. I am going to go ahead and start from a beginner level and work up from there.

To stay up to date, you can follow me on twitter. You can also follow Mixr on twitter as well.

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/05/i-am-alive-mixr-dj-app-for-ipa.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2010/05/i-am-alive-mixr-dj-app-for-ipa.html Life Tutorials iPad iPhone Apperian Apple DS Media Labs IPad IPhone WWDC Sat, 22 May 2010 19:02:52 -0500 Daring Fireball: Herd Mentality

I think there’s a simple reason why the herd mentality is worse in the PC industry: Microsoft. In fact, I think it used to be worse. A decade ago the entire computing industry — all facets of it — was dominated by a herd mentality that boiled down to Get behind Microsoft and follow their lead, or else you’ll get stomped. That’s no longer true in application software. The web, and Google in particular, have put an end to that.

I can not agree more with Gruber on this statement. All I can add, is thank goodness this is now the case.

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I wanted to get some feedback on what kind of tutorials I should post. I guess I can start from the very basics and work to advanced topics, but I feel a lot others have already done this. Unless, a lot of you feel other tutorials have not been clear or have not been detailed enough about various topics.

So please send me your thoughts and requests.

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2009/08/more-free-iphone-tutorials.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2009/08/more-free-iphone-tutorials.html iphone tutorials Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:45:28 -0500 TRON Inspired iPhone Game Light Riders

For the next version, we already have our 3D bike models completed. If you have watched any of the videos, you will notice 3D bikes. Those are the same models we are using in the upcoming 3D update. Our competitor has an upper hand with their 3D view, at least for now ;) I only wish I could show you what is coming for Light Riders. It's going to be insane. I can not wait for everyone to get these new updates. I can say, the video is a hint on what is coming your way :)

If you have any thoughts or ideas, please go over to http://iphonestudio.dsmedialabs.com/, and shoot us some feedback through our contact form. We are always looking at how we can improve our products.

I will be posting some new iPhone development tutorials here soon. It has been nuts here at DS Media Labs. DS is a small studio of friends and we have developed 20+ iPhone apps in 9 months. I would say we have been pretty busy.

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2009/02/tron-inspired-iphone-game-ligh.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2009/02/tron-inspired-iphone-game-ligh.html ds media labs iphone iphone studio tron Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:02:08 -0500 Vote on iPhone Tron Style Game Name =) Light Bikes. As most of you know, LightBike is now taken. We need to rebrand our game and want to allow the users to vote on it. So please head over to Touch Arcade and vote! NOW!

]]> http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2009/02/vote-on-iphone-tron-style-game.html http://www.cocoamachine.com/blog/2009/02/vote-on-iphone-tron-style-game.html iphone light bikes vote Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:33:00 -0500 iPhone Tron Style Game So, back at iPhone Dev Camp 2, we entered the competition with a TRON style game for the iPhone. We called it Light Bikes. Since iPhone Dev Camp 2, we have rewritten pretty much all the code and the game uses a 3D engine. We are using OpenGL and OpenAL. It supports 4 players over WiFi. Each player uses a separate device.

The first version we are doing has a overhead camera view. We are putting in support for different camera views for 1.1. The game will mostly likely be pushed to the App Store this weekend.

It came to a surprise a few weeks back when we seen another company stole our name (LightBike) to ride on our coat tales with all the websites and press we had generated over the past few months.

Pretty sad if you ask me. So, because of this, we are going to be rebranding our Light Bikes game as Neo Riders.

Be looking for reviews on Touch Arcade and other sites for Neo Riders.

UPDATE: I have removed the statement about the source code. I was contacted by Pankaku, Inc and they have assured me that they built their version from the ground up. I apologize for posting information based on a source that was incorrect.

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http://www.sente.ch/s/?p=535&lang=en

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Touch Roulette was born. You can go check out the YouTube video or the Touch Roulette page at iPhone Studio to get more info. We submitted it to Apple today. We will see how that goes...

We are still working hard on Neo Riders (previously Light Bikes), FLOverload 2.0, and Rogue Sniper. You will see vids, review, and eventually the actual apps on the App Store in the next couple weeks.

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