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Quick Overview: A Few Moments with Titanium
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Quick Overview: A Few Moments with Titanium

on Apr 5th 2010 with 98 comments

Those of you who follow us on Twitter might know that I’m currently working on an iPhone app for the tutorial sites. However, there’s just one problem: I have no Objective-C experience! Luckily, a service called Appcelerator allows us to build native desktop and mobile (iPhone in my case) apps using the web technologies that we already know, like JavaScript! Before we launch an in-depth two-part series detailing how to create and sell an iPhone app from scratch later this month, I thought I’d give you a basic overview of how it works.

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How to Build your First iPhone App

The Easiest Way to Build your First iPhone App

on Jan 28th 2010 with 61 comments

Mobile websites have come a long way, but if you want to take full advantage of a smartphone’s hardware, or get listed in the iTunes App Store, you need to compile your code. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create a mobile web app with an iPhone look and feel using jQTouch, then turn it into a native iPhone app using Phonegap. No Objective-C necessary.

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50 Helpful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

50 Helpful iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

on Dec 1st 2009 with 76 comments

Nearing in on 100K (Apple approved) available apps as of this writing, the iPhone is the “do anything” device that’s ready and capable of near desktop computing in the palm of your hand with the convenience of fitting in your pocket. For web designers and developers, this means no more toting around a laptop just to take care of the small bits of our job. From work to play and everything in between, the iPhone probably has you covered. As the saying goes, “Yup, there’s an app for that”.

I’ve listed 50 iPhone apps for all you web designers and developers which covers everything from color scheme creators and font manuals to FTP and SSH clients. Also keep in mind there are many more of the same type of app.

For more iPhone apps, don’t forget to check out iPhone.AppStorm’s list of 100 Useful Free iPhone Apps.

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10 Tips for New iPhone WebApp Developers

10 Tips for New iPhone Developers

on Jul 1st 2009 with 61 comments

Making a webapp for the iPhone is a lot like making a normal web site, but with a few quirks to abide by. In this article, I’ll give you a wide variety of tips, covering things such as: “must-haves”, usability guidelines, testing/debugging, pitfalls, and performance issues. I hope you enjoy it!

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Developing For The IPhone

Learn How To Develop For The iPhone

on Aug 18th 2008 with 100 comments

Today I’m going to show you how to build an alternate page and style sheet for the iPhone and iTouch. We will cover how to detect if the user is using an iPhone to view your page as well as the orientation of the device – whether it be landscape or portrait. To accomplish this we will be using javascript, and some Safari mobile specific CSS tags.

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