Essential iPhone Apps

Diggsy said:
Whoa! I need to be learning how to write these! 70% :eek:
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If you're serious - I'm unsure if you've done any Mac programming before but here's a few books I have:

Programming in Objective-C 2.0, Kochan
This covers Objective-C with a little Xcode and Mac OS. A good base reference for all things Objective-C (which means Apple stuff). It will underpin the next books, teach you and be a reference if you're used to C/C++ etc.

Beginning iPhone Development, Mark & LaMarche
Fast becoming the defacto favourite beginner's book. It's late to the market and they've got things right rather than rush things. I got mine today after using a google in-book. Ok - this is a easy entry book. It covers the basics of using Xcode etc and shows the basics of building applications using the bits and bobs available.

The iPhone Developer's Cookbook, Erica Sadun
This is an odd one. It's not well laid out nor is it an easy book but there's some interesting points and ideas. This will teach you some naughty stuff that Apple may not like. Does not tell you much about programming Cocoa, Xcode or Interface Builder (such as using multiple xib view controllers etc).
The information is in there... just buried. Once you're happy with developing this does cover more ideas beyond but it's not really a "my first iPhone" book (especially if you've not programmed Cocoa/Objective-C before).

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Aaron Hillegass (Mac programming but it's very useful)
This is the defacto beginner's guide to Cocoa. Well written and very easy to follow - teaches a little Objective-C and also covers Xcode & Interface Builder.

You'll need the iPhone SDK from Apple's developer pages (free to sign up) and to distribute you will need to enroll (yearly fee) to distribute.
 
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NickK said:
If you're serious - I'm unsure if you've done any Mac programming before but here's a few books I have:

Programming in Objective-C 2.0, Kochan
This covers Objective-C with a little Xcode and Mac OS. A good base reference for all things Objective-C (which means Apple stuff). It will underpin the next books, teach you and be a reference if you're used to C/C++ etc.

Beginning iPhone Development, Mark & LaMarche
Fast becoming the defacto favourite beginner's book. It's late to the market and they've got things right rather than rush things. I got mine today after using a google in-book. Ok - this is a easy entry book. It covers the basics of using Xcode etc and shows the basics of building applications using the bits and bobs available.

The iPhone Developer's Cookbook, Erica Sadun
This is an odd one. It's not well laid out nor is it an easy book but there's some interesting points and ideas. This will teach you some naughty stuff that Apple may not like. Does not tell you much about programming Cocoa, Xcode or Interface Builder (such as using multiple xib view controllers etc).
The information is in there... just buried. Once you're happy with developing this does cover more ideas beyond but it's not really a "my first iPhone" book (especially if you've not programmed Cocoa/Objective-C before).

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Aaron Hillegass (Mac programming but it's very useful)
This is the defacto beginner's guide to Cocoa. Well written and very easy to follow - teaches a little Objective-C and also covers Xcode & Interface Builder.

You'll need the iPhone SDK from Apple's developer pages (free to sign up) and to distribute you will need to enroll (yearly fee) to distribute.
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Wow! Thanks a lot for all of that information. To be perfectly honest, I hadn't considered it before (although it's something that does interest me), but I didn't realise it was a Mac only thing. :o

Unfortunately I don't own a Mac and didn't really plan on owning one either, so unless Apple (which I doubt) release software to allow us poor Windows users to create apps, then I likely won't be able to give it ago.

Like I said though, thanks for the advice, I appreciate it. :)
 
Anyone know of any free apps that can display raw GPS data? Lat/long etc.

Just downloaded FeX, really good! Worth 59p.

Went for Beejive the other day as well and not regretting it at all, brilliant app. Lovely UI and very polished.
 
Just brought some new apps last night and had a play.

Real Racing is probably the best racing created yet for the iPhone/iPod Touch, definatly one to check out. Its kind of like GRID for the iPhone/iPod.

And Airport Mania is such a laugh and addicting and its really fun to boot. :)

Heres what i have now ;) :

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