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I've done both iOS programming for iPad/iPhone and Android programming. All in the native platforms - Objective-C for iOS and Java for Android. Conversion between the two is much easier than porting…Continue
Tags: MonoTouch, Java, Objective-C, Sencha, toolkits
Started by Kevin Neelands. Last reply by Jackie Gleason May 28, 2012.
EveryTrail impresses as a well thought out app with GPS, multimedia and social integration. Not only is it well coded and solid, but the marketing is to the point and clear as well. Objective-C has…Continue
Tags: mobile, objective-c, travel, iphone, gps
Started by Michael Levin Dec 13, 2010.
I'm working on an iPad app, and I need to go from a URL such as www.mysite.com to the IP Address and port, 12.34.56.78 port 123 or so.Has anyone done this? I…Continue
Started by Kevin Neelands. Last reply by Kevin Neelands Oct 14, 2010.
Meets at DeVry U!Continue
Tags: iPhone, Club, Programming, Mobile, Orlando
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Walt Sellers May 1, 2010.
For those of you getting a iPad, I highly recommend these two apps:First, a FREE nifty version of the Periodic Table Of Elements:…Continue
Started by Kevin Neelands Apr 2, 2010.
Has this happened to anyone else?I got a notification recommending I let apple automatically upgrade the software on my iPhone, so I clicked yes. This replaced OS 3.0 with OS 3.1.3. Unfortunately,…Continue
Started by Kevin Neelands. Last reply by Kevin Neelands Feb 17, 2010.
Has this happened to anyone else?I got a notification recommending I let apple automatically upgrade the software on my iPhone, so I clicked yes. This replaced OS 3.0 with OS 3.1.3. Unfortunately,…Continue
Started by Kevin Neelands. Last reply by Walt Sellers Feb 17, 2010.
Hi All,I recently released my first iPhone App, Party Twacker, and would love to connect with other iPhone developers. Please go to :…Continue
Started by Kevin Collins Feb 2, 2010.
The Mac Developer Network (a Europe-based group) is hosting a convention in Atlanta in cooperation with the Big Nerd Ranch (a programmer training company) on February 21st to 24th.It will shorter…Continue
Tags: networking, training, conference
Started by Walt Sellers. Last reply by Walt Sellers Jan 27, 2010.
I looked at the Java Micro Edition, and did some simple programming using a mobile phone emulator. Then I looked at X-Code, but that seemed to require a MacIntosh for development. Is Objective-C the…Continue
Started by Kevin Neelands. Last reply by Kevin Neelands Jan 20, 2010.
I am doing this free online course with a friend, Mike Hauser, producer of www.betterbadnews.com, who…Continue
Tags: cs193p, stanford, iphone
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Kevin Collins Jan 19, 2010.
(I'm posting this for Mara, who speaks French and lives in Africa - please give him a hand with his dev question! I translated the question using…Continue
Tags: c, mara, objective, development, database
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Kevin Collins Jan 19, 2010.
My favorite app right now is called Lose it for…Continue
Tags: entrepreneurship, marketing, appstore, iphone, apple
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Michael Levin Dec 27, 2009.
I've written a couple apps for the iPhone and put them on my own iPhone using a Provisional Development Certificate, but I'm attempting to get a Distribution Certificate so Apple can review them. I'm…Continue
Started by Kevin Neelands. Last reply by Kevin Neelands Nov 20, 2009.
Initially, iPhone SDK development was largely done in isolation-- the SDK doesn't support dynamic frameworks and making a static library was not obvious if you weren't already used to writing code…Continue
Tags: ASIHTTPRequest, SDK, Rails, ObjectiveResource, PLCrashReporter
Started by Robert Hedin May 27, 2009.
Beginning iPhone Development:…Continue
Tags: LaMarche, Mark, book, iphone
Started by Michael Levin May 19, 2009.
SFGate: "The popular iPhone has inspired a wave of creativity among software developers, many of…Continue
Tags: cocoa, objective-c, creativity, iphone
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Walt Sellers Apr 27, 2009.
iPhone SDK Application…Continue
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Walt Sellers Apr 1, 2009.
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why can't they make any development in Java trough IPhone APP ?
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