Introduction to iPod touch and iPhone development course

This 1 day course will teach you how to build a simple content based iPod touch / iPhone apps containing videos, photos and RSS feeds and submit it to the iTunes store. No previous programming or development knowledge is necessary.

Date 16th March 2010
Time    9.30am - 5.00pm

Location Cryptic Peach Training,Great Ancoats Street, Manchester.

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iPhone and iPod Touch Apps for the apprehensive

I came across these two sites (thanks to Alan and Chris) which enable you to make your own applications with little programming knowledge but do require you to pay.

AppMakr is an easy to use interface for creating an App that looks at RSS/YouTube/Twitter feeds to make the App.  The base cost is $199 for each build of the App.

The second site is uBuildApp which allows you to add buttons to an App that do different things. Apps start at $99.

For those more adventurous I am attaching code that will allow you to get an idea of building one of these apps yourself which does much the same things with the iPhone SDK.  There is a tutorial to follow shortly.

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Podcasting for Edcuation App accepted by App store

I am pleased to report that the Podcasting for Edcuation App accepted by App store.

Click this link to go to the App on the iTunes Store

Digital Creator Lite Approved for App Store

It was great to get the news that Digital Creator Lite has been accepted by the App store.

Follow this link to download this free app.

Apple Teacher Institute, Cheltenham 12-15 April 2010

Apple have just announced the dates for ATI 2010.

The details are in the attached file.

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Register your interest -

To receive a booking form to reserve your place at ATI 2010 please contact Fiona McGlashan of Impact Exhibitions:
By phone or Fax: 01223 237426 By Email: impact@appleshack.com

Simple enhancements to the Apps

If you have tried the tutorial below you will find that there are a couple of things missing in terms of what you would expect from a normal iPhone App.  Actually there is quite a bit missing but the two main things are the ability to use the pinch gesture to scale a page and  the rotate to landscape feature.

To get the pinch to work it is actually quite simple.  In the ViewController.xib file set the WebView as below so that the Scales page to fit  check box is ticked.

To get rotation working you need to go to your ViewController.m file and then scroll down to the commented out section that looks like this:

/*
// Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
*/

and edit it so that it looks like this:

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)orientation {
return YES;
}

Sorry that this adds another line of code but it is worth it.

Apple Learning Series Workshop

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Final Cut Express Tutorial iPhone App approved

Good news.  I just got notice from Apple that the free Final Cut Express iPhone app with eight video tutorials has been approved for release.

Here is the iTunes store link.

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iPhone Templates in Freeway

With a with a view to making more iPhone apps to publish material I have created a Freeway template with a bit more of an App feel to it.

Here is the Freeway template for this.

iPhone App Freeway template