iPhone dev - iOS4 breaks things

Okay, I'll admit it. I've been slack. The last version of DoodUrls for iPhone is reeeealy old now. It doesn't work under iOS 4. It's a sad day ;-(

I have not had any time to fix the app. It's not just a simple case of bashing out a few tweaks too. I had a long look at why it was crashing and came to the conclusion that the iOS 4 SDK was not giving me any useful answers! I will have another look in the upcoming weeks, but at the moment I'm very snowed under with real life.

My theory now is, do a complete iOS 4 re-write, using my "all I learned" experience. This is the route I'll travel, I'm not sure when that'll be though. As it stands, DoodUrls seems to have pretty much dried up through lack of content. I might put plan B in to action - plan B is to create my own feed via a group Twitter account. Call it something comparable and have at it.

Watch this space. I suspect it'll all be pie in the sky for the foreseeable future anyway :-(

DooDUrls for iPhone is in BETA!!

Well, we are in BETA. Hoping to get a submission in to the App Store on Friday (no idea how that will go?!) Just need to iron out the last few issues and we should be good to go!!

This week has been full of stress in the day job and late nights coding and debugging iPhone/Objective C code. Pretty rewarding, but I'm very much looking forward to my upcoming vacation!!

Progress on the iPhone DoodUrls app

Well, the app now works in the simulator. Loads the feed and then the images in that feed. Unfortunately life is never simple and the device crashed hard with a bus error :-( I don't expect it'll be too hard to fix, but it's too late to look at it tonight. I'm off on a night of Market Research tomorrow evening (IRISH WHISKEY!!!) and so I'll not be able to work on the code again till Tuesday evening. *sigh*. I'm hoping to get it working this week and tested before I leave for Canada in 2 and a bit weeks.

On another note - I set this blog up so that I can post as me - YAY! I suspect I'll just post as me and never using the Rat Cow account. I was going to go off on some overly complex "me posts certain stuff" and "Rat Cow posts other stuff", but to be honest it's just me either way :-) I might use the distinction at some point - but for now we are one and the same.

Enter the iPhone

I have a love/hate relationship with Objective-C. I learnt it quite well enough to write software a few years back, but every time I'm away from it for a spell, I come back feeling confused! Having said that - the DoodUrls iPhone app is underway!! Screenshots to follow.