Posts Tagged ‘gprs’

Softheme Programmer Discusses iPhone Development

Friday, July 31st, 2009

One of Softheme’s web developers shares his knowledge about iPhone applications development. He participated in the development of commercial applications for iPhone (USA). Having started learning to program for iPhone devices from scratch, he fully mastered the technology in several months and delivered mobile software solutions developed in accordance with standards and requirements of Apple.

1. What should a developer know in order to start programming for iPhone? How easy or complicated is it to start iPhone development?

First of all, a developer should have knowledge of Open C language as well as iPhone API, the library of standard components for iPhone. There is one more separate sphere of iPhone development, namely, development of games and graphic programs. Applications of this type have a bit different structure because they use the OpenGL technology instead of standard visual classes.

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Why Developing for iPhone?

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Recently, a significant growth in programming for mobile devices can be observed on the IT market, especially, it is well seen in application development for iPhones. According to the data of Gartner’s 2009 report on smartphone market, the highest sales growth rate is displayed by devices with MAC OS X operating system (iPhones) – 245.7%. Then come Research In Motion (BlackBerry) and Palm OS with 96.7% and 42.2% respectively.

Lately, access to Internet services and websites is often executed via smartphones with iPhone being the leader in this segment. Owners of this device use GPRS for Internet access 30 times more often than users of other mobile phones. This is encouraged by the Apple’s concept of “always-on” Internet access when a phone uses any possible channels of access, from local Wi-Fi to global 3G, while ensuring transparent switching between them.

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