http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ The rawthought mobile technology blog, covering software development for mobile phones. en-us todd@rawthought.com 2009-03-22T08:47:56-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000587.html In case you're installing multiple copies of Xcode and want to make sure you keep track of which is which, here's a custom appicon.icns file that you can drop into Xcode's Resources (right-click Xcode.app, select "Show Package Contents", and drop... 587@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2009-03-22T08:47:56-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000584.html Lately there's been, frankly, a lot of whining about Apple's review process for apps submitted to the iPhone app store. A lot of this concern comes from desktop developers, often Mac developers, who have never dealt with a mobile app... 584@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2009-03-10T18:30:03-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000577.html Don't ask me why, but recently I was forced to experiment with Cydia. I should preface this by saying that the iPhone I own is not jailbroken. Frankly, I find the stability and convenience of iPhone SDK apps released through... 577@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2008-12-20T09:05:09-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000556.html This week I've had the displeasure of simultaneously reinstalling or updating development tools for both the Series 60 platform and the iPhone (Cocoa Touch). I've installed both toolchains before, but never this close together. It made me realize what a... 556@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2008-06-14T10:27:03-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000543.html Google sent out emails this morning to the roughly 1788 developers who entered the Android Developer Challenge. There were two flavors of email, one for winners selected for the Top 50, and one for everyone else. A few developers have... 543@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ Android 2008-05-09T14:43:17-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000539.html Google has announced that they received 1788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge. When you think about it, that's a pretty remarkable number. Doubtless a large percentage of these apps are simply unusable or incomprehensible, but that still leaves a... 539@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ Android 2008-04-19T23:35:13-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000538.html This is probably the coolest app I've seen yet for Android. Basically it overlays navigation information and labels over live video. So as you're walking around with your camera phone, it'll tell you what you're seeing. (Via ClubGPhone)... 538@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ Android 2008-04-16T14:56:10-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000537.html For those of you who like to develop on the cutting edge of iPhone, you might find that your iPhone crashes frequently and doesn't respond to the usual key inputs. In that case, you can quickly and easily restart your... 537@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2008-04-15T09:58:47-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000536.html In a turn of events that's become all too common these days, Google has not yet released any official status on the Android Developer Challenge. No press release touting "We've received then thousand submissions!" or whatever. However, the developers themselves,... 536@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ Android 2008-04-14T21:17:58-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000533.html Well, I just wrapped up our first android application and our sole submission to the Android Developer Challenge. It's called Puluwai, and while I don't think it's a radically new concept in mobile applications, I think it does one thing... 533@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ Android 2008-04-12T17:27:22-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000530.html Let's say hypothetically you plug in your iPhone to charge on your friend's laptop. Your friend happens to be an iPhone developer and have Xcode open, and so immediately Xcode asks whether you want to use this iPhone for development.... 530@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2008-03-26T09:58:58-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000528.html "Hmm, we're not able process your request." Judging by how often we've seen this error message on the Apple iPhone Dev Center site the past couple of weeks, it seems that the iPhone SDK is extremely popular with developers. Either... 528@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2008-03-17T19:06:17-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000504.html Ever since Steve Jobs made this announcement last year about a native iPhone SDK, we've heard very little about exactly when the iPhone SDK will be released or what it will contain. No sneak peeks, no developer white papers along... 504@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2008-02-06T19:56:00-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000503.html In case you'd like to revert to an earlier generation of iTunes, here's a link to iTunes7.4.2.dmg... 503@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ iPhone / iPod 2008-01-27T21:31:17-08:00 http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/archives/000494.html In an interesting series of articles Register writer Oliver Starr compares three new mobile platforms (Android, iPhone, and one I'll choose to ignore for now). His intriguing conclusion? "I would go with Android if I were forced to choose... 494@http://www.rawthought.com/mtech/ Android 2008-01-18T10:24:19-08:00