iPhone 3GS
Finally got a iPhone 3GS. They have been sold out in Canada and some what hard to get up here. Got a friend to pick me one up in Hong Kong. As a bonus the phone is unlocked (it’s against the law in Hong Kong to sell carrier locked phones) so I can use it [...]
MMATracker 2.4
MMATracker v2.4 has been submitted to Apple. Changes in this release: Fixed problems with MMAJunkie news feed Show title/description for news articles Replace WAMMA with Strikeforce in Champions view Remove deprecated APIs Note that MMATracker now requires OS 3.x so if you are still using 2.x now would be a good time to upgrade. Screenshot [...]
ASCII vs UTF8
We got some email from MMATracker users saying that the MMAJunkie RSS feed wasn’t working in the application any more. The code that I was using: NSURL *xmlURL = [NSURL URLWithString:URL]; NSError *err = nil; NSString *xmlFeed = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:xmlURL encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&err]; if (err) { // handle error } After some trial/error, I determined [...]
Apple Review Times
Still no word from Apple about the latest MMATracker release. Used to only take around 6/7 days to get an approval for app updates, but that seems to be rising. I’ve talked to other developers and they have noticed the same thing. Perhaps Apple is having trouble keeping up with demand.
MMATracker 2.3
MMATracker v2.3 has been submitted to Apple. New in this release: when showing a fight card, it’s now broken into sections for the main/under card. You can see a screenshot of that below. When clicking on “More” information about a figther, the app now slides over and shows that content in a web view. It [...]
Writing a successful iPhone game
Read a couple of articles on the iPhone game market. The first one was from the Globe and Mail, called Game publishers muscle in on iPhone upstarts. It talks about EA and other big publishers getting into the App Store and making it harder for Indie developers to get ahead. The second one was from [...]
MMATracker 2.2.3 Approved
MMATracker v2.2.3 is now ready for sale in the iTunes store. This fixes some minor things for OS 3.0 and you should see some minor performance improvements.