first iPhone app
by Orion Elenzil · 09/07/2009 (9:07 pm) · 6 comments
jeeze, i just lost this post twice.
we seriously need a new word in the language which would be defined as
"<word> : n. The horrible feeling one gets upon losing a post, email, or other composed electronic creativity"
okay. third time's the charm.
no, no i can't do it. i had written a bunch of observations and the good/the not-so-good/the bad lists, but i'll have to wait to re-write them until there's a second significant app.
i wrote the same app i wrote in flash & o3d (and directX and the windows GDI).
i'm using the native objective-c stuff, not a toolkit such as torque.
the performance seems good.
once i put a few more bells 'n' whistles on it i'll submit it to the app store.
ooo
we seriously need a new word in the language which would be defined as
"<word> : n. The horrible feeling one gets upon losing a post, email, or other composed electronic creativity"
okay. third time's the charm.
no, no i can't do it. i had written a bunch of observations and the good/the not-so-good/the bad lists, but i'll have to wait to re-write them until there's a second significant app.
i wrote the same app i wrote in flash & o3d (and directX and the windows GDI).
i'm using the native objective-c stuff, not a toolkit such as torque.
the performance seems good.
once i put a few more bells 'n' whistles on it i'll submit it to the app store.
ooo
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#2
09/08/2009 (2:38 am)
I would love to have the time to do something like this... I have an isometric engine which works with D3D... I would love to reimplement it for the iphone. 
#3
09/08/2009 (6:22 am)
Congrats on your first iPhone app! 
#4
09/08/2009 (1:09 pm)
I think the word you're looking for is something like "parciety". 
#5
09/08/2009 (4:51 pm)
You could've used HaXe to port your Flash app to iPhone ;)
#6
OmegaDog - the iPhone SDK from apple (free but Mac-Only) includes frameworks for GUI controls, multi-touch, OpenGL, HTTP, etc. It also comes with an iPhone simulator which is pretty cool.
Ronny - "parciety" ? tell me more, i'm having trouble finding that one.
Funky Diver - ha! good point. i should maybe find some HaXe -> iPhone examples and do my stuff that way.
09/11/2009 (12:08 pm)
thanks for the comments all!OmegaDog - the iPhone SDK from apple (free but Mac-Only) includes frameworks for GUI controls, multi-touch, OpenGL, HTTP, etc. It also comes with an iPhone simulator which is pretty cool.
Ronny - "parciety" ? tell me more, i'm having trouble finding that one.
Funky Diver - ha! good point. i should maybe find some HaXe -> iPhone examples and do my stuff that way.
#7
09/11/2009 (12:13 pm)
i wonder what the performance overhead is for rendering stuff via flash-like haxe. 
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Woot! Coding Dirty!
Interesting to see what you get it to do without something like iTGB. Do you have a graphics lib of any kind?