Floyd’s Thoughts…

Today Apple approved our 4th IPHone app TweetExpress, it took them almost 3 weeks which was a bit disappointing, but its here now.

TweetExpress allows you to receive Push Notifications from Twitter when a selected friend or mention appears on your Twitter timeline, It’s really great that you can select the Friends your interested in rather than getting all your twitter noise pushed to you

Check it out at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=336775839&mt=8 and let me know what you think?

Mose developers collect a number of libraries and Open Source code samples during their career, which they use over and over again.

Here is a list of the IPhone code that I use when building apps, please feel free to send me some suggestions for more?

• TouchJSON
  TouchJSON is parser and generator for JSON implemented in Objective C.
• Three20
  Three20 is an Objective-C library for iPhone developers, featuring a Photo Viewer, Message Composer, Web Images View, Internet aware table view controllers, Better text fields, HTTP disk cache and URL-based navigation.
• HTTPRiot
  HTTPRiot is a simple REST library designed to make interacting with REST services much easier. It supports GET, POST, PUSH and DELETE requests and HTTP Basic Authentication. HTTPRiot was inspired by John Nunemaker’s excellent httparty Ruby library.

I also have a personal stash of UIKit extensions which i often re-us, I will put them together for a later post

A while ago we developed a simple Twitter Client to scratch a personal itch I had with the existing clients.

The idea was to have a simple app that loaded really quick and enabled me to post a status update to twitter, using a full screen view that contained just a keyboard and a text box.

I also wanted it to rotate nicely in to landscape when I rotated the IPhone.

Seems simple ey? yet all the good twitter clients have really poor implementations.

This is what the App looks like:

This project will show you how to do the following things:

• Draw a custom control (TextField)
• Use a Fliped Transition (settings view)
• Save and fetch user defaults
• Custom Rotation logic to position elements manually
• Animation, the tweet text field animates away when you click Post
• Integrating with a 3rd party code base (MGTwitterEngine)

Go get the source from http://svn.floydprice.com/OSS/QuickTweet/trunk/