Posts Tagged ‘iPhone API’

Apple Announces iCloud

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
iCloud

iCloud

Last week at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference there were all the expected announcements of upgrades and new releases for iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macs, etc. But the freshest news was the planned release of iCloud - the new way to store content and wirelessly share it within all Apple’s devices.

Unlike Google, Microsoft or Salesforce, Apple is not using web browser to access the cloud. Instead they enable applications to connect to the cloud automatically. All data (such as music, text documents, video etc.) is pushed to the cloud and can easily be accessed by any device with the same Apple ID. This eliminates the problem of browser campatibility, giving users opportunity to enjoy all the benefits cloud computing can provide. The new developer API makes transparent cloud based data access available to all apps. (more…)

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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