iPhone OS: Day 7, Hope
Posted by elbryan
Thank you again Ayreon
Today I made few improvements around iPhone OS. I’ve been able to query the GPS and retrieve some data from it. Actually I’m using the iPhone Simulator shipped with Xcode and I can say that it lacks in fantasy. The Simulator doesn’t provide a real “simulating” environment for GPS since it seems to provide every time the same coordinates.
Actually, I’m expected to develop a GPS-Tracking applications as my Bachelor’s Thesis, so it’s pointless using the same values for tracking a path. That’s a no go. Furthermore the things get more complicated by the fact that I don’t have an iPhone myself. Even if I had it, it wouldn’t be useful since Apple allows developers to install their own applications only if they own a special certificate released through the Apple Developer Program (that costs $99). So, yea, that’s a double no go.
Eventually I’m getting used to Interface Builder: it’s not that bad once you’ve understood how delegation things work and the secret behinds classes associations.
Another thing I’m starting to comprehend are the errors that Xcode spits out. Today I spent an hour trying to understand that an object wasn’t correctly instanced and the errors given by Xcode didn’t help me find it out.
Furthermore today I’ve learned how to “localisating” strings and how to transform objects into locale-capable objects!
Definitely a good day for my iPhone developing experience. Can’t say the same for the Apple Conference held today (where iPad has been announced) that quite disappointed me. I’d really enjoyed something more multi-tasking-ish given the new device presentation. I think this tablet won’t make the difference or echoes like iPhone did.
I’m still hopeful for the next generation SDK (the 4th edition). I really hope it will bring multi-tasking on its devices (and onto my application as well).
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