Showing posts with label iphone programming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone programming. Show all posts

Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture in iPhone applications development

The structure of iPhone applications code is based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. It benefits the iPhone applications development or the object-oriented programs as a whole in many ways. MVC–based programs can be adaptable to changing requirements and their objects more reusable.

The main goal of the MVC architecture in iPhone applications development is to separate business logic, such as your application’s data and the rules that govern your application, from the user interface (presentation layer).

The MVC architecture considers there to be three types of objects:
1. Model objects
2. View objects
3. Controller objects

A goal of a MVC based application also should be to reuse as many objects as possible. View objects and model objects should be highly reusable and application-specific behavior should be implemented in controller objects.

Design Guidelines:

• Dependency should be minimal in case of all the MVC architecture implementations
• MVC roles can be merged in an object although making that object acts as both the controller and view object. Then it would be called a view controller. In the same way, you can also combine model-controller objects. Following MVC architecture makes code more reusable, understandable and extendable
• It is good design that a view object use controller object as mediator to know about changes in an model object

If in case you have any requirements pertaining to iPhone or iPad applications development, write us at lead@spec-india.com, and our Business Development Executive will get back to you within 24-48 hours. You can have a look at our iPhone website at www.iphonequalityapplications.com.

Happy iPhone programming!

Tips for iPhone SQLite Programming

SQLite is a popular and a widely used programming language used in internet programming and specially, mobile device programming. It is more popularly used as a database programming language for iOS development projects. It is self-contained and ‘serverless’ platform, thus requires no configuration.

Here are some useful things to be considered for all the iPhone developers, dealing with SQLite programming:
> The SQLite extensions such as Full Text Search should not appear to be compiled into the iPhone SQLite libraries.
> Due to some things like memory usage of the iPhones, the speed of the SQLite on the actual iPhone is much slower for some things, than on the simulator.
> Think practical, and plan well for the future – and design the database accordingly. This will indeed save you the trouble of having to write all the necessary SQL commands for versioning your database later.
> Always take a copy (backup) of the database and store it in a location that one can write to.

At SPEC INDIA, we have a trained team of 175+ professionals and iPhone/iPad apps development has always been our core strength, since its evolution. You can send us any query or requirement at our email id lead@spec-india.com and our Business Development Executive will definitely get back to you with 100% satisfactory response.

Happy iPhone programming!

iPad programming: Developing a VoIP application

VoIP, stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, is a kind of application that allows the Users to make phone calls using an internet connection instead of the device’s cellular service. A constant network connection is a must to support the smooth usage of the VoIP application in iOS programming. The network services are basically associated with the receiving incoming calls and the other relevant data.

The iOS programming system allows these applications to be suspended at times and provides facilities for monitoring their sockets for them. When it comes to the incoming traffic, the system wakes up the VoIP application, and returns the control of its sockets to it.

The main communication socket needs to be aligned properly for the VoIP usage; for the iPhone/iPad application to maintain a persistent connection while it is in the background.

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Happy iPhone programming!

iOS Jailbreaking

In technical essence, jailbreaking of an iPhone means making the mobile device free from the limitations imposed on it by the carrier – AT&T or Verizon and Apple. The User installs a software application on the computer, and then transfers the same to the iPhone, where it ‘breaks open’ the iPhone’s file system to allow the User to modify it. The devices included are the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and 2nd fen Apple TV. The jailbreaking phenomenon in iPhone programming is a form of privileged escalation, and the term has been applied to privilege the escalation on the computer systems too.

Why Jailbreaking?
It lets the iPhone user do everything from customizing look of your iPhone to installing third-party applications and customizing ringtones, etc. It even lets you to unlock your phone so one can use it with a carrier other than the one from which you purchased it.

Why NOT Jailbreaking?
Once you do it, you’re on your own. You may have voided the warranty, so cannot rely on Apple to fix your problems that you encounter. All the applications that Jailbreak your phone are unauthorized. And so, who knows you might end up using your smartphone as a mere paperweight.

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Tips for iPhone application developers

For creating and programming an iPhone application, the person must first get registered as an Apple iOS developer. After you get registered, you will by default have an access to the tremendous arsenal of Apple’s technical resources and reference libraries with a free registration.

Do consider the following tips while your app is in the early stages of programming an iPhone application:
> Select a proper name and make sure that your name does not match to any popular available app
> If you select a similar name to the already existing app, then gather the knowledge of their offerings, and differentiate your own application from these ones
> Make a detailed list of the features and the flow of the application that you want to develop. And then follow the list through the entire development process.
> Make use of all the available audio tutorials, video streams, documents, etc. – this is a very fruitful database for resources
> Hire help of the counterparts. Means, if you are a designer – hire the programming work; and vice versa. Let the expert make the suitable work.
> Design a unique icon for you as a programmer, and then upload all the apps developed by you using the same icon always. This will generate a positive sign for all your viewers.

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Happy iPhone programming!

iPhone: Automated Testing

Before the iPhone programmer can submit the application to Apple for verification, the joy of programming the application is followed by practical situation that you have to do hours of Users testing. One can save themselves a considerable testing time effort by using an automated testing program specifically designed for the iPhone.

The automated testing programs for iPhone will test whether the programming logic is implemented correctly. Whereas on the contrary, the testing professionals might not be able to complete the entire task fully within one single iteration. The major benefit of automated testing in iPhone programming is like the more complicated and big the iPhone application is, the User will certainly save many hours having a computer test for all the buttons, menu items, commands, etc.

It may uncover some problems for the human tester in case of mobile applications testing, in terms of User interface and create software bugs that may go unnoticed by a machine.

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Programming an iPhone Email App

Thanks to many thousands of iPhone applications available to be installed on the mobile device, it has become almost like a small or hand-held personal computer. A normal iPhone User (typically a business oriented person) will always recommend attaching his/her mailbox to the iPhone. So, if in case you have just purchased an iPhone, the programming the email application to check emails is likely one of the first things to go for.

Here is a stepwise guide for the same for all the iPhone developers or Users:
>  Go to Home >> Mail (icon). If you have ever programmed the email application, then follow Settings >> Mail (icon) >> Accounts >> Add Accounts
> Select ‘Other’ when asked to select the type of email account that you want to configure
> Select type of server of the email service provider
> Type in your full email address
> Type the addresses of your incoming and outgoing mail servers. This information must be there with your email service provider
> Type your password
> Press ‘Save’ button’ at top of the screen and enjoy using accessing your mailbox on your iPhone

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iPhone - Bluetooth Programming

Two iPhone apps can be made able to communicate with each other using the Wireless protocol - Bluetooth. Some industry people say that Bluetooth is somewhat an expired technology, but still there are many Users in India, who have separately installed Bluetooth (via and as a private application) in their iPhones. The Bluetooth apps can be downloaded from the store to the iPhones. These applications can interact with each other over more than one iPhones at a time such as gaming or productivity reports, etc.

This protocol for iPhone programming is basically used for gaming, image sharing, and as a walkie-talkie software.

Moreover, Apple provides an application bundle named as ‘Bluetooth Mania.’ It allows the Users to use the iPhone as a walkie-talkie. In detail, the User needs not to call someone on the iPhone. Instead, if the other iPhone User is within the Bluetooth range, you can always use this app to communicate with each other too. Further, the smart iPhone developers can customize this app too.

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Deleting iCloud Backups

Apple’s iCloud backup service allows 5GB of storage as of now. And as iPhone user, you may wish to delete individual backups and free-up some space. Fortunately, deleting individual iCloud backups is not much difficult. Its just about following the below steps:

> Go to Settings >> ‘iCloud’ tab. It shows list of all iOS apps, currently hooked-up to iCloud
> Go to ‘Storage & Backup’ (It shows up how much storage information has been used)
> ‘Manage Storage’ screen allows outlines how those 5GB space storage is being spent
> To delete an individual backup, touch iOS device iCloud backup that you wish to delete
> Finally, ‘Delete Backup’ button appears, and individual iCloud backup will have been deleted

It’s quite simple and useful for a good iPhone programmer.

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App Store Rejection Criteria

Many iPhone developers all over the world are trying to get their app listed at the App store. Apple do have a high-level selection/rejection criteria for all their developers. 

Here is some of clubbed observations for Apple’s criteria to reject the developed applications:
> If the application makes contains some unusual sounds, which may hinder some other brand
> Copying of any other existing iPhone application
> Specification about network connection in the User Manual itself
> Use of Apple’s graphics in your own app
> Use of some private and prohibited APIs
> Naming convention – usage of appropriate version numbers
> Using same icons for ‘lite’ and ‘pro’ versions of a single app
> Improper handling of editing in tableview cells
> It is not permitted to use continuous vibrations in your apps

All the iPhone developers, kindly note these are not any listed criteria at App store. Instead, these are a set of observations, which is coming from our experience dealing with iOS projects.

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IPhone programming: Implementation of Views Controllers

The User interface has always been the most important part of any project in iOS projects development. Because of the different screen sizes, apps often need separate versions of their interface for each device on a larger screen. This means creating new view hierarchies but might also mean creating completely different view controller objects to manage those views.

Following these below tips for View controllers will result in an interface that feels more supportive to the iPhone developers:
> Define separate view classes for iPhone and iPad devices
> Always put the shared code in a base class and then implement custom subclasses to address issues
> If using single view controller for both  platforms, your code must support iPhone & iPad screen sizes
> Your view controller must be able to handle differences between the two platforms

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Xcode in iPhone development

The suit or collection of tools developed by Apple for developing software for Mac OS X and iOS – is called as Xcode. The latest stable release is version 4.2.1, which is available at the Mac App Store free of charge for iPhone developers. The Xcode suite includes a modified version of Complier collection and supports the programming platforms such as C, C++, Java, Python, RoR, Objective C, Objective C++, etc. The Xcode suit uses the GNU Debugger as the back-end for its debugger.

The features of the Xcode suite is the technology to distribute the building of source code over multiple computers. The more recent versions of the Xcode added a second system for iPhone programmers, known as Dedicated Network Builds, which scales better to larger and high-end configurations. Xcode also includes Apple’s WebObjects tools and frameworks for building Java web applications and web services.

With this, the Xcode also includes a very unique framework called as DTrace, a dynamic tracing framework created by Sun and released as a part of OpenSolaris.

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Cloud Server: Concept of Mobile Programming

A Cloud Server is the main and server-side component of the infrastructure that is located in the ‘Cloud.’ From the mobile apps developers point of view, a cloud server stays in between the mobile device and the actual cloud data services, which is being mobilized. The Cloud Server provides a Java based API to expose the data services. The system provides mobile-oriented features like data sync, real-time push, etc.

The Cloud Server further has 2 concepts:

1. A ChannelA Channel serves as a gateway for integration the on-device model/data objects with the server-side backend storage systems such as relational databases, Enterprise systems like CRMs, etc. It provides an interface to expose the backend data. The catch here is to keep a channel which is purely data-oriented component.

2. A MobileServiceBeanA MobileServiceBean frees up the developers from all the RPC concerns like security related issues, network connections, checking/unchecking payloads, etc. It exposes some coarse grained business process to the on-device Mobile App, and provides a simple request/response based synchronous invocation mechanism.

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New Features of Mac OS X Lion

Way back in the last Calendar year, Apple had introduced many new features to its Lion Version of the operating system Mac. Here are some of the top exciting features of the same:

> User can get some multi-touch gestures to dynamically and efficiently scroll, zoom, browse through Safari, photos and other files too
> Safari, iPhoto, and all rest of the standard features of the Apple apps to be full screen
> Spaces and widgets can be easily accessed by the 3-finger swipe
> Takes the purchase of apps to another level, that can be accessed with customizable notes & updates
> User can have all the icons, newly purchased apps organized in custom manner on the desktop
> Go back to where you were, when you quit any application
> Autosave feature for the documents
> Autosave will create the versions of the original file, so that the User may browse through previous drafts
> Better viewability, applicability and search capability to the Users

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iCloud Services from Apple

The Apple digitalized the meaning of having a mobile phone by launching iPhone in 2007. They revolutionalized the portable music industry with the iPods, and inaugurated the face of the music industry by iTunes store. Apple recently announced their iCloud service – it is a bunch of web services that will change the way our Personal Computers, Macs, tablets, and smartphones share data and interact with the Web.

This service will allow the User to synchronize their entire iTunes music collection, your photo collection from iPhoto, the documents from iWork, as well as backup from Mail.app with all their compatible devices. This will also add a heavy smartness to the modern day iPhone developers.

How it works… once the User connects the device to the internet via wired or wireless connection, all the files will be automatically in sync. The backup feature allows you to store your personal data, along with music apps and books purchased from the iTunes. You can restore all of your data directly to your device from iCloud, or move it to any new devices you buy.

If you switch back and forth between a Windows PC and your Mac, it will not be long before you can keep both of them in sync with iCloud.

Availability… the Scan and Match feature – also known as iTunes Match will be available in the fall. iTunes 10.3 is available right now, for Macs and PCs with iTunes 10.3, and it will allow you to download music you have previously purchased to all of your mobile devices.


Tips for Mobile Game Development

We have been narrating our experience with mobile applications development by our articles on the blog. If you are a beginner, sometimes we are lost to find a perfect direction and flow of steps to decide on the correct path for the mobile game development.

Here are some tips and tricks for the beginners of the mobile game development:

Start..  with J2ME is the most recommended one, and look at the other resources you need to flourish
Decide on which language..  if you are going to write a platform or basic game, try Layer, Sprite, etc. & If you are going to write a 3D game, then try with platforms like JSR184.
Learn and know yourself as a mobile game developer, and don’t give up!
Starting a new game.. plan the things, plan the architecture for the game engine class (logic)
Decide the software.. and download the latest or appropriate version of the SDKit
Decide the basic game design.. i.e. come up with the basic idea and logic
Develop the story line.. and establish the play modes
Get into the actual code.. expand the API given.. understand the devices for support, and build the skeleton program, and deciding with the coding structure for the classes, sub-classes, etc.
Testing the game application built, and then going for the final release.

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Setting up iOS 5 Twitter integration for iPhone or iPad

Facebook and Twitter have been emerging as undisputed kings of the social media marketing since last quite a few years. If you are new to iPhone or iPad and have just started with iOS 5, then as a programmer – you might be wondering how to set up the new Twitter integration feature. It gives you the ability to tweet directly from Photos, YouTube, Safari, Maps, and any other 3rd party applications that request the access to the twitter settings from the iPhone.

It is pretty easy to set up this integration. Here are the steps:
> Go to Settings
> Enter the Twitter Settings
> Enter your @username and password
> Select which apps you wish you have access to the twitter settings

And now, you will be able to share from the Photos, YouTube, Safari, Maps and other 3rd party apps that support the twitter integration.

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Tips for iPhone development Beginners

iPhone development has been a very booming and promising sector from the point of view of the developers. Taking a somewhat different approach, here we are writing some tips and tricks to the beginners of the iPhone development process:

> Sharpen the minds for custom iPhone drawing and animation code
> Good speed and recall for the Xcode and interface builder
> Experience to work on the iPhone’s table views and other UI components
> Accessing the iPhone user inputs from touches, as well as from the core location of the code
> Setting up and managing the iPhone controls such as text fields, buttons and pickers
> The proficiency with objective-C 2.0 and the foundation framework for the iPhone development.
> Experience to work on the application state, user data and the navigation controllers

At SPEC INDIA, our trained team of iOS project development professionals can take care of any custom requirement for application development, from our valuable Clients all over the globe. You can always send us all your enquiries at our email id lead@spec-india.com, and we will get back to you immediately.


View Controllers: Role in iOS projects

Today here, we will be bouncing back to the basics and going to discuss the View controllers. Let us start with the basic introduction of the View controllers and their role in the iOS projects development.

The View controllers are the core part of any iPhone application development. They act as a bridge between your models and your views. View controllers are both responsible for fetching/initializing your models as well as loading the views to display the information they contain.

The basic View controllers

Every view controller that Apple provides extends from the base UIViewController subclass. This gives the iPhone programmers a few basic properties that they might find handy. The most important is the view property. This is the basic reference to the view that the controller is managing.

Here are some of the basic view controllers to be discussed in this post:
> UINavigationController
> UITableViewController
> UITabBarController

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Steps to build a better iPhone application

Thanks to the increasing powerful devices and cheaper data plans, the mobile app space is creatively growing faster year by year. Apple has been the front runner – thanks to the iOS devices. There are now over 50,000 apps available for sale at the App store, making it harder to get a newly released app noticed by the fellow users.

Here are a brief list of useful steps, which should be considered when getting into the iPhone app game:
 
> Narrow your focus and stick to the concept of the app/game, even when preparing the designs and GUI
> Build a better user experience
> Choose your approach – like what you need in this app, if you were the User of the app
> Use the correct tools for the job
> Testing on live phones of all the versions
> Submission to the app store

We have a already submitted our article on what the iPhone developers need to take care of during submission of their apps on the App store. And following these steps will definitely increase the chances of generating the maximum revenues and taking the app on top of the store.

At SPEC INDIA, our trained team of iPhone development professionals can take care of any custom requirement for application development. You can always send us all your enquiries at our email id lead@spec-india.com, and we will get back to you immediately.

 
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