With Flash Professional CS5, we can now build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store. A public beta of Flash Professional CS5 with prerelease support for building applications for iPhone is planned for later this year. At MAX 2009, Adobe showed a number of applications and games for iPhone that have been built using a prerelease version of Flash Professional CS5. The tooling update allows developers to use Flash technologies to develop content for iPhone and iPod touch. Developers can write new code or reuse existing web content to build applications for iPhone. Because the source code and assets are reusable across the Flash Platform runtimes,—Adobe AIR and Flash Player—it also gives developers a way to more easily target other mobile and desktop environments.
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Apple’s has announced a push notification service for the iPhone that it’ll provide to all developers. It’ll maintain a persistent IP connection to the phone and let a 3rd party server ping Apple’s notification service in order to push out notifications to users device, which can be in the form of badges, sounds or custom textual alerts. According to Apple, the service will preserve battery life and maintain performance, not to mention work over WiFi or cellular.
UIPrerenderedIcon
If you would like to render your iPhone application icon without any sheen and bevel effects added by iPhone OS, then add the boolean value
UIPrerenderedIcon=YES
in your application’s info.plist. Adding this key will instruct iPhone OS not to add the additonal effect around the icon and leave it as it is. On the left is a screenshot of one of the application’s – BubbleWrap(marked in red square)available on the Apple App store which use UIPrerenderedIcon= YES.
<key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key> <true/>
There you go — Apple has just announced that its Worldwide Developer Conference 2009 will take place from June 8th through June 12th in sunny San Fransico. Apple has a few surprises up its collective sleeve. So what do you guys think? Netbook? Snow Leopard? Tablet? More than one new iPhone model? Hit the comments section and be heard.
WWDC 2009
It’s that time again. More iPhone rumors and speculation–including predictions that Apple will release a variety of iPhone devices, and that the company will add features like video capture and video chat–have come to light.
The iPhone’s already been taken up a notch with Apple’s OS 3.0 that has seriously enhanced the functionality of the device. Of course it would be stupid to imagine that Apple would stop there and we’re all very anxiously waiting to see what the next gen iPhone itself is going to be like. Read the rest of this entry »
In the post-holiday crunch, AT&T has launched the sale of refurbished iPhones to unload some inventory and offer cost-conscious shoppers a discount. In AT&T Wireless’ online store, a refurbished 8 GB iPhone runs $99 with a two-year contract, while a refurbished 16 GB iPhone is $199. Both are $100 more when purchased new, but carry the same contract terms.
AT&T’s move to sell off refurbished iPhone comes roughly a week after it was rumored that national discount superstore Wal-Mart would offer its own exclusive 4 GB model of the Apple iPhone 3G for $99. Those rumors were officially debunked this week, when Wal-Mart on Sunday started offering the standard 8 GB and 16 GB models of the now-iconic smart phone for fairly close to their original retail prices — a $2 discount. The addition of the iPhone makes Wal-Mart only the second retailer outside of Apple and AT&T stores to be authorized to sell the iPhone. In September, Best Buy started selling the device in its Best Buy Mobile stores.
According to AT&T, the refurbished devices will be for sale until Dec. 31 or until supplies run out. The previously owned devices have been unused or lightly used and were returned during the initial 30-day trial period, AT&T said, though some may have minor scratches. Each device has been quality tested and updated with the latest software.
The refurbished devices offer a 90 day warranty.
Apple may be gearing up to introduce cheaper iPhone and MacBook models in 2009, possibly including a device dubbed the iPhone nano.
Judging by checks with Apple suppliers, it appears the Cupertino, Calif., computer maker may be getting ready to introduce “a lower-cost version” of the popular iPhone.
Some call this device the iPhone nano.”, ” Whatever one calls it, we believe this device is on its way.”
“a new and smaller version of the iPod shuffle,” possibly in the middle of the first quarter and a cheaper MacBook notebook, although, “We do not believe this PC will qualify as a netbook.”
Don’t expect the products to be ready in time for a rollout at the upcoming MacWorld expo next week.
Officials at Apple could not immediately be reached for comment.
