It’s been awhile since i’ve posted about iPhone development but things are going quite well. My first project is on the back burner for now due to some technical issues but my second project is looking great. I have most of the basic functionality in place for a 1.0 release. I may add a few more features, but I still need to clean up the UI a bit before it’s ready for primetime. I may add a teaser image of my second project’s app icon later…

A couple of weeks ago I took the plunge and signed up for the iPhone Developer program. At the time I signed up I didn’t actually own an iPhone or iPod Touch and the plan was that I would to do all development using the iPhone Simulator that comes with the iPhone SDK. This idea was going well until last weekend when I decided I wanted to play around with one of the fancy features of the iPhone/Touch, the accelerometer. I discovered that the simulator unfortunately does not implement the functionality of the accelerometer.

So that was depressing until I found this, it appeared like it was exactly what I needed, a way to simulate the accelerometer. But after spending a day trying to get the setup to work and output meaningful data, I gave up on that route. That was when I bit the bullet, I ordered a refurbished iPod Touch from Apple’s website.

Slight tangent, I have to say that I recommend Apple’s refurbished products to anyone looking to save money on an Apple purchase. Refurbished products come with the same warranty as non-refurbished products and in most cases are indistinguishable from what you get when you buy new.

Development has been going well on my first iPhone project which is actually a rehash of my first cocoa app, an app that was unfortunately never released because of some functionality issues. I also have some plans to create an iPhone version of decline. The challenge will be trying to figure how to refactor the UI to work in an iPhone/Touch environment.

Stay tuned for more iPhone Development Rambling as I figure out all the ins and outs and differences between Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.

And now your moment of zen: