Tutorial: JSON Over HTTP On The iPhone

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On March 19, 2009

This tutorial provides a step-by-step howto for consuming JSON web services from an iPhone app. When you’ve finished the tutorial you’ll have created a simple, back-of-a-fortune-cookie inspired, “Lucky Numbers” app with a solitary label whose content will be updated to show a list of lucky numbers fetched from a JSON-over-HTTP web service. Source/Github The code […]

10 Useful Links about the iPhone OS 3.0 Preview for Developers

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On March 18, 2009

Today, Apple held an iPhone OS 3.0 Preview event for developers and the press. The upgrade itself won’t be available to end users until summer so as a developer you’re looking at a minimum 3 month lead time to develop updates and new products based around the new features. This hasn’t stopped the blogosphere going […]

Mining App Store Rankings For Popular Apps Worldwide

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On March 10, 2009

Manually tracking the popularity ranking of an app in iTunes App Stores worldwide is cumbersome. Ben Chatelain of SOPODs.com (Profile) has written a script that automatically extracts this information and has generously shared the source code for anyone to use. The script works by downloading iTunes’ top-100 lists for every country. It reports an app’s […]

Review: Becoming Productive in Xcode Screencasts

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On March 9, 2009

Making good use of Xcode has become a popular topic. We published 14 Essential Xcode Tips, Tricks and Resources for iPhone Devs a month ago and it’s still our most popular post. When Mike Clark from the Pragmatic Programmers asked us to review his new Becoming Productive in Xcode screencast series, I mistakenly figured that […]

A Giant List of iPhone Developer Related Links

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On March 5, 2009

Ari Braginsky (a.k.a. lemonkey) has been busy putting together a frankly intimidating list of links to resources that iPhone developers will appreciate. Blogs, Twitter accounts, tutorials – you name it. There are perhaps 60-80 links on there so far, and he’s trying to grow it. (You can send him an e-mail to ask him to […]

Five Tips For Getting iPhone Reviews

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On February 26, 2009

Guest author Jim Bernard is the General Manager of MarketWatch.com and an iPhone marketing enthusiast. He can be reached at bernard.jim at gmail.com Even though Mobile Orchard does not review apps, we get a surprising number of product pitches. Some are quite brilliant, others almost embarrassingly bad. This got us thinking: what makes a successful […]

Connecting Click-Throughs to App Sales

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On February 19, 2009

Let’s say that, in the course of drumming up attention for your app, you get mentioned in TUAW and Lifehacker on the same day. Conventional wisdom says that you won’t be able to tell which of your sales came from TUAW, which came from Lifehacker, and which were organic because it’s widely believed that you […]

Revealed: Secrets of the App Store (and iPhone User Engagement)

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Pinch Media, an iPhone developer tool company, is the developer of Pinch Analytics and Pinch Advertising. Pinch Analytics is designed to help you see how users use your iPhone apps and see your download numbers in real time. Punch Advertising, on the other hand, lets you add advertising in to your iPhone apps easily (ideally […]

656 iPhone Developers to Follow on Twitter – Add Yourself Too!

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On February 18, 2009

Whether you use it or not, you’ve probably heard of Twitter – ostensibly a social networking tool where you let people know what you’re doing but, ultimately, far deeper than that (that description is like describing e-mail as “a way to send words to people”). There are lots of iPhone developers on Twitter and a […]

iPhoneFlow: An iPhone Development Community Link Blog

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On February 16, 2009

If you’re a Ruby developer, you might be familiar with RubyFlow, a popular Ruby community link blog. Well.. we’ve decided to bring a little bit of that community spirit to the iPhone development community too.. presenting.. iPhoneFlow! iPhoneFlow is a community link blog for iPhone developers. You can either just read and check out the […]