Category Archives: iphone

I found a security flaw in Apple’s App Store submission system

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Gibson

After being an Apple iPhone developer for over 2 years. I thought that I have seen my share of weird happenings with XCode, App Store policies etc. But this latest incident takes the cake. I was doing an app submission … Continue reading →

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A small step for Android, a big step for developers

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Gibson

I was happy to hear that Android 1.6 supports the changing of resolution on the fly using code, as now that Android is coming out on so many handsets and all of them have their own screen sizes. This will … Continue reading →

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Battle of the App Stores

Posted on September 2, 2009 by admin
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Journey to Windows Mobile #1

Posted on August 17, 2009 by admin

After my meeting with Microsoft Singapore and seeing how pumped up they are on getting developers for Windows Mobile 6.5(Plus loaning me a device for testing) and getting some insight on their future plans. I have decided to port my … Continue reading →

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plus ça change, plus c’est pareil

Posted on July 30, 2009 by admin

Years ago, I was doing mobile game development for a client who intended to submit it to Vodafone(Which had about 150 million subscribers) to put it on Vodafone’s carrier deck. Vodafone then operated on a close walled garden concept and … Continue reading →

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The Grammar Kempeitai

Posted on July 22, 2009 by admin

More than 1/2 a century ago, in the early 1940s. Singapore was ruled by the Japanese when the British surrendered. This was after deciding that it was a travesty to go for weeks without Earl Grey and cucumber sandwiches. Then … Continue reading →

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Good feedback is good, bad feedback is even better (Plus, free promo codes wouldn’t hurt)

Posted on May 11, 2009 by admin

I am still amazed that how many people still refuse to place enough emphasis on getting customer feedback, or just outright refuse to get any feedback from their customers who will be the ones who are paying for their product. … Continue reading →

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Excuse me while I bash my head against the wall

Posted on May 8, 2009 by admin

Firing up the ole XCode to do some more development on my game, I then encountered the need to concatenate 2 NSStrings together. So I decided to use the stringWithFormat function to do it. So after a few taps of … Continue reading →

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China Mobile’s robot

Posted on May 3, 2009 by admin

Picture taken from http://images.intomobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/lenovo-ophone-china-mobile.png According to this report, China is expected to launch it’s own app store named Mobile-Market (which operates very similar to Apple’s App Store), through China Mobile. But since Lenovo is rumored to launch it’s Android oPhone … Continue reading →

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Adding a popup alert for your iPhone app

Posted on April 27, 2009 by admin

When I submitted my app to the Apple App store for review about 1 month ago. I had to code a popup window that checks for the presence of an internet connection before going to the in-game forum screen. This … Continue reading →

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