Friday, March 20, 2009
Enamored of Objective-C and iPhone Development
Friday, March 20, 2009 
The past few days have been an exercise in utter frustration, a flurry of inspiration and obstacles overcome, and a lot of smiles and warm fuzzies. I went from dabbling a little in iPhone development to wanted to just dive into the OS 3.0 stuff and to be able to test stuff on the hardware proper and not in a simulator.
This is the kind of fun I had many, many years ago when I embarked on the Flash expedition. To see really cool stuff run smoothly on a wonderful screen with enough power behind it to make most things possible is really inspiring and enabling.
The whole process of updating my previous SDK in XCode and updating the hardware to the latest firmware was enchanting... when it was complete and provisioned, I'd have access to a whole world of new development.
XCode is a great IDE, although I have a lot of nits about it... dragging rules to link things is silly enough, but there should be a button I can press while InterfaceBuilder is open with my xibs that show all the connections. I haven't figured out if I can open multiple files and once and just tab through them or not, but it would be nice. The autocomplete is awesome, assets in the Project when changed auto-update... not like in the Flash IDE where you need to manually update.
I'll be pouring through some data, the forums, and videos to learn more this weekend. As I get really cool things working, I am slowly learning more, making the ability to look at other's example code a lot easier - I can see what they are doing and understand some of it, not just blindly editing a copy and paste and hope it works in my own project the way I want it to.
Exciting times™.
Update:
I JUST received an email from Apple (it would seem that they were a little late on this, or I beat them to the punch) - although you'd think I was already on the dev list.
Update:
I JUST received an email from Apple (it would seem that they were a little late on this, or I beat them to the punch) - although you'd think I was already on the dev list.
With a rich set of over 1,000 new APIs, iPhone SDK for iPhone OS 3.0 beta provides you with an amazing range of technologies to enhance the functionality of your iPhone and iPod touch applications. New APIs also provide support for applications to communicate with hardware accessories attached to iPhone or iPod touch.
Join the iPhone Developer Program and receive access to the new iPhone SDK, iPhone OS 3.0 beta, and the ability to test your applications directly on iPhone.
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Bill said...“thanks for sharing your thoughts. have fun this weekend.”
