This Week In iPhone News

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On April 10, 2009

Introducing This Week In iPhone News, a new feature by Ari Braginsky (Profile).

Ari has a knack for gathering iPhone news items and resources, which he graciously shares on Twitter and in his giant list of resources.

Ari runs the iPhone news marathon as a sprint. To help us keep up, each week Ari will highlight the handful of news topics and interesting resources every iPhone developer should know.

Week Of April 10, 2009

Detecting network connections, by Hardy Macia, Catamount Software. Extension to the UIApplication class for easily detecting if a network connection exists from within your code for the iPhone.

GDC 2009: iPhone Development: Exploring The New Frontier, by Noel Llopis. Go through the presentation slides from Noel Llopis’ excellent presentation on iPhone Development at this year’s GDC in San Francisco.

Pushing tweets to your iPhone with Apple Push notifications, by Erica Sadun. See what steps it took to create push-based Twitter notifications using the iPhone 3.0 SDK.

Creating an iPhone Game Video, by Streaming Colour. Great tutorial on how best to record a demo video of your iPhone application for promotion purposes.

The Chipmunk Physics engine, by Scott Lembcke. Popular physics engine being used by many iPhone games and graphics engines.

Nine Inch Nails, via Wired. Trent Reznor, Rob Sheridan, and Kevin Rose talk about their soon-to-be-released NIN app and its origin. Interesting feature: integration with the Google Earth browser plugin for realtime message updates from people attending shows around the world.

Teach Me Cocoa. Free tutorials on Cocoa and the iPhone SDK.

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