Slicehost iPhone App - Time To Submit
It has been a long week. I have been been on a mission to finish the Slicehost iPhone app that Matt blogged about. And now, after starting development of this app at Peet’s Coffee in Half Moon Bay on Sunday, I’m ready to submit it to the App Store.
There will be two versions: Slicehost and Slicehost Pro. The Pro version will have more features and will cost $1.99 USD (if you’re not on U.S. currency, the App Store will adjust other currencies according to whatever Price Tier 2 translates to for your country). The non-pro version will still have plenty of features and be free.
Hopefully the submission process will go smoothly, but since it’s not in my control, I can’t tell you how long it will take before the app is actually ready to be installed on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Being more of a coder (whether it’s my right brain coding Ruby or my left brain coding Objective-C), I actually expect submitting to the App Store to be one of the hardest parts of this project. I just hope it doesn’t take too long because I really want you guys to get to try it out soon.
Now, I could talk your head off about features, but instead I’ll show you some screen shots of Slicehost Pro.
Looks great. Have you had any objective-c & cocoa experience before this, or is it your first app? I’ve been getting into it, I’ve managed to make API & parse the XML - but then I hit a brick wall.
I’d love to know what has helped you along the way, because I’ve got some app ideas that are just a bit out of my scope of knowledge at the moment
Looks sweet good luck with the Apple Store.
Thanks Matt!!
Ludwig, I never had any Obj-C or Cocoa experience. I primarily do Ruby on Rails web development, and I used to do Java when I lived in Memphis, TN. To me, the hardest part is getting used to the terminology in Interface Builder. Once you realize how IB hooks up to the code, things get a lot easier. There’s a beta book on iPhone development at http://pragprog.com, and that’s how I got started. The book isn’t bad, but I wouldn’t call it great either. It’ll get you started, but you’ll still have tons of questions. For that, I find myself looking at Apple’s sample code and browsing the API documentation in XCode.
And as for Objective-C, don’t worry about it too much. Cocoa is what you really need to learn. I tend to learn a framework before I learn the language. When I started doing Rails, I didn’t know anything about Ruby (only Java). But over time, I started to get the hang of Ruby and now I feel like I’m pretty good at it. I’m going through kind of the same mental journey with Objective-C now.
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