Category Archives: iPhone Development

Topics of interest to the iPhone developer community.

What’s Going On? Conqueror for iOS and more…

Posted on May 16, 2013 by alec

For those of you wondering what we’ve been up to as of late, I’ve got a lot of interesting news. We finished up a couple big projects for clients in the beginning of the year, and with that behind us, …

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CoreTextArcView for iOS now on GitHub

Posted on April 23, 2013 by alec

Well, I’ve been using git for about a year now, so I was overdue to put something on GitHub.

By popular demand (well 2 people on StackOverflow asked for it anyway), I am putting on GitHub my adaptation of the CoreTextArcView …

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Marketing’s a Bitch: Lessons from the App Store

Posted on June 26, 2012 by alec

After months of obscurity, Sol: Sun Clock rose to #11 on the Weather charts the night of the solstice, and the next morning, when Apps Gone Free went live, it quickly rose to #2. Downloads went from around 10 a day (paid) to the peak of 21,042 in one day. That is an increase of over 2000%! Over a period of three days, Sol topped 30K downloads. Continue reading →

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UIColor-expanded

Posted on June 23, 2012 by alec

Here’s some handy code to extend UIColor, based largely on code by Erica Sadun, but with a couple of fixes and handy (to me) additions. Let me know if this is useful……

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Sol: Sun Clock — official trailer

Posted on April 30, 2012 by alec

Kudos to Josh Warren, co-designer of Sol:Sun Clock, for producing this excellent 60-second trailer introducing our new app for iPhone and iPad, now available in the App Store.

Sol: Sun Clock from jjnww on Vimeo.

I’m hoping …

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Sol: Sun Clock is now available for iPad

Posted on April 17, 2012 by alec

The latest update to Sol: Sun Clock, the personal daylight utility and alarm clock for iPhone, now makes use of the new iPad’s hi-res screen.

As a developer, I was happy that 98% of Sol:Sun Clock’s codebase had to be …

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Just Say No to Payola, or Why I’m Not Paying For a Good Review.

Posted on January 24, 2012 by alec

I have a strong distaste for even mild extortion, especially when it comes to the “free” press, and I for one won’t be buying my app reviews. Continue reading →

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Why I made Sol: Sun Clock

Posted on January 16, 2012 by alec

We’ve been working on this one for months and I’m happy to announce that Sol: Sun Clock, our lastest iPhone app, is now available in Apple’s App Store.

It lets you look at the day’s sunlight times, quickly …

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Drawing Text on an Arc in CocoaTouch

Posted on August 18, 2011 by alec

CoreText is available now in iOS, but it’s not an easy framework to use. After trying several other approaches to draw text on an arc at this Stack Overflow page,  I adapted Apple’s sample code  CoreTextArcCocoa for Mac …

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Psychic Summit: Aquarium 2 app approved

Posted on December 20, 2010 by alec

There’s been lots of App Store news here recently, but this one is extra special to us because Juggleware was so heavily involved in the design as well as the programming of this one (with Communal). It was a …

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