Get Json from iPhone Objective C

Here the code to connect to a web service a receive the data in json format and print it to the console 

How to: Get contacts with the iPhone SDK

This source code was developed by Pablo Abad and shows the contacts stored in the iPhone Address Book. The contacts will show in the Xcode console.

Thanks Pablo, and good luck in Munich.

Installing iPhone SDK On PowerPC

If you have installed the iPhone SDk on a Power PC, you can't create iPhone Apps. Because the PowerPC Plattform is not supported by the SDK. Well...., you can install it browsing through the package content in the SDK image disk.
You must intall the aspen packages manually to use it with the XCode. You can se the packages in the image.



After install it you need to move it to the platform folder in the Developer folder. These packages by default will be installed in the root folder, you need to move it to the developer folder. Other option is change the destination folder in the installation app.

After these steps you will see in the new project window the option to develop iPhone apps.

iPhone 1.1.4 Released

The new firmware of the iPhone is now released. There's no a lot of improvements, people says about improve the coverage and a little better battery life.

About the unlocking and the jailbreak appears that ZiPhone is still working on this task, and nowadays is not possible make this actions on the iPhone.

Another important annotation is about SDK, before the SDK was delayed today we have a new date is March 6th. This new firmware version is ready to support the SDK programs.

iPhone Widgets Platform SDK

What do you think about develope your own widgets in the iPhone. Perhaps with the SDK presentation a Widget platform will be introduced. In the XCode 3.0 there are an interesing SDK to develope our own widgets. Perhaps take advantage with Dahscode is to use it on the iPhone.


And also a lot of widgets already developed could be used on the iPhone. I think the use of dashcode on the iPhone is really interesting for the industry and every important mobile company as Nokia or Microsoft has their own widget platform. Apple must to take part in the mobile widget market.

The Microsoft widget platform is zumobi. This solution is only for Windows Mobile based phones.

What do you think about Widgets?

Android: Easy Way To Develop Mobile Apps

As you know google has intrudec Android a Development Mobile Platform. With this platform you can develope easy app for mobile, the code is writted in Java. The source code is open and a communitie has been founded. Is interesting that now there's no mobile phone in market that supports android, in this case google thinks is more important firts a strong platform and after a mobile device. On the other hand the Apple case, first Apple introduce iPhone before the SDK (is expected for February 2008) and I think Apple doesn't have in the initial plans release the SDK, maybe iPhone jailbreak, a lot of interesting app for the iPhone and the Android Launch force the SDK. Also last news says about Apple has sent the SDK to developers few days ago.
What do you think about?

Interesting Links

Android
iPhone Dev Center