Apr 12, 2009 by Umesh
Starting on path for iPhone application development
It was late February when I eventually gave in to continuous persuasion of my friend and colleague Cole Harris and decided to start experimenting with iPhone applications. He had been on the AppStore for some time and has several successful applications and had given me some tips. Man what a month of March it turned out to be.
The first question was what to develop and my first answer was to develop an April Fool day application. Which I developed but never uploaded. This application provided me with significant insight in to iPhone capabilities.
I had rich embedded devlopment background (how rich :)). I knew C/C++/Java rather well but had never done any ObjC or GUI related development. One and half month later my first application has been uploaded for Apple’s review and I am nervously waiting to see what happens to it.
As soon as Apple approves the application, I will use this space to discuss design and tools used to create the application.
Was the application finally approved? How are you’re daily downloads looking?
Yes it was. It took Apple 1 week to approve the application. It is available at http://tinyurl.com/getAvatar
I need to provide implementation details here. But, just never got around to it.