Reportage - Checkpoint

The development of the native iPhone application "Reportage" is progressing slowly. The transition from Ruby to Objective-C takes a little time to get used to.

But I really like the development environment provided by Apple (XCode / Interface Builder) and especially the stability of the 4th release of the SDK.

Here's a screenshot of the Reportage icon on the iPhone Home page. I'll continue posting progress on the development of "Reportage". Stay tuned.



Happy location reporting - Martin

Reportage - The Splash Screen

Here's the splash screen for Reportage.



But according to the iPhone User Interface Guidelines, application should not have a splash screen, so this is going into the credits section then.

Coming soon for your iPhone
Happy location reporting - Martin

Reportage en cours...

Coming soon for the iPhone...

Happy location reporting - Martin

iPhone SDK works on PowerMac Architecture

The iPhone SDK has been released by Apple a week ago and already there is has been over 100 000 downloads of the kit. As you can imagine, I was the first inline to get it. However upon installation on my Dual G5, I was surprised to see that there was no iPhone project templates available in XCode. After some researching, it found this note posted on Apple Site about support for Intel-based architecture Mac only.



So I was contemplating the purchase of a dedicated Mac Mini box as a development machine until I hit this site that explains how to use the SDK on a PowerMac architecture.

After following every steps, voila !!!



Now I will delve into the CoreLocation API and report back here soon.

Update: If you are using the iPhone SDK Beta 2, please follow the directions here instead.

Happy location reporting - Martin

Apple introduces the iPhone.

After much speculation and a lot of rumors, Apple finally announced the iPhone today at the MacWorld 2007 Keynote event. I read the live blogging event and I took a look at the Quicktime QuickTours and I must say that this is a pretty impressive piece of technology.

A huge contrast to my first "smart phone", the Ericsson T28 World Phone. It was very tiny but so what the screen. Compared this to the iPhone and there is a world of difference.

The iPhone will be a quad-band phone working on GSM / Edge networks but the beauty is the OS powering this device.

Not Symbian, not J2ME but a full-fledge operating system: OSX.

This opens up a lot of possibility for mobile applications as the power and the functionality available on this device is way beyond what is out there today. And also the development environment; I venture that we will be able to easily port existing dashboard widgets to it (btw: we are working on such for Kakiloc).

However, for us Canadian citizens, we will have to wait and see if the iPhone upon it's introduction, will be GSM locked to Cingular only. They have been announced as the exclusive US partner for such.

Also, there was rumors that the device will contain an embedded GPS chip. Unfortunately, I do not think it is there.
It's availability is slated for June 2007. There was also a lot of emphasis over the partnership with Google and the integration of Google Maps on it. Given the push by Apple to align itself more with social networks is there an LBS application waiting in the wings; remember that Google bought Dodgeball some time ago.

Humm that could prove interesting...

We will get our hands on the iPhone and will support within the Kakiloc service.

But this is a revolutionary new cell phone.

No wonder RIM and Palm stocks took a hit today.

Happy location reporting - Martin