Entries in iPhone (2)

Tuesday
Nov152011

iOS 5 Feature Request

Although there are still plenty of things I'd like to see done on iOS, one in particular just came to mind while flipping through pages of my apps.  I know you can double-click the home button to reveal the suspended (recently used) apps, however I think it'd be nice to have a mode you could turn on that would put all of your most recently used apps on the first page and then apps you haven't used in a while on the other pages with the apps you use the least on the last possible page.  

I understand this could be confusing for some considering your apps would move around quite often on the first page, but maybe they don't have to.  Maybe they only move if they are going to the 2nd page and so on.  If your app is in the top 16 most used apps, it stays on the first page and in the same order.  If it gets bumped beyond that, then they would be in whatever order they rank on pages further down.  

What are your thoughts on this method?  Does the "suspended apps" dock area meet this same type of need?

Monday
Jul112011

Learning Objective-C and iOS

I've finally taken a dive into Objective-C programming and have created my first iPhone app.  Although it is an app, it really is the most basic an app can probably get.  But it is something!  You can select a date and the app will tell you what day of the week it is.  I have a few ideas for my first "official" app and hope to get into that more in the next few of months.  

I've been using lynda.com's online video tutorials to learn about object-oriented programming and to get familiar with Objective-C.  Now that I have my basic understanding of the language, I've jumped into iOS development.  I like Xcode quite a bit and it seems to offer a lot of functionality to ease the pain of writing and debugging code.  Coming from classic ASP, HTML, and JQuery and not taking advantage of an IDE in the past, I'm really realizing I wish I would have been up to speed on this stuff sooner.

One of my goals this year was to write my first iPhone app and I'm definitely in the process of meeting that goal.  I hope to be able to release something official by Christmas time.  It won't be anything too fancy, but maybe a simple utility to help someone do something somewhere.  :-P

What type of app would you like to see?