Attn: iPhone/iPod Touch owners

I have to write an application during the next 2 weeks as part of a project...

Any apps you long for that don't exist? Or just um, any cool ideas?

Winner gets it developed and stuck on their iDevice to use.

(disclaimer: I may not use any ideas if they don't appeal/too hard )

an igallery of differnt types of hats would be awesome

I told you last night, flat mate finder. Just enter suburbs, price, number of rooms etc, it then does a daily search of the classified listing sites and gives you a list everyday (or any other interval you select).

how about

ijustwannasmartphonethatworksliketheysayitdoes.app

LOL

yup it's in the pool of possibles, I just have to work out how to achieve it...

I have a couple of ideas for apps. But I am afraid I'm going to keep them to myself and write them when I have some spare time.

An app to open up the phone so that it has the some basic functions as other phones would be sweet

Like for example......?

OMG KRISB IT DOESN"T HAVE COPY AND PASTE WHAY CANT THEY DO THAT WHY NOT? TELL ME?

So thought I'd post screenies of what I made for my project, I have to present it tomorrow, it's a iPhone version of Simon, the game from the 80s.


It needs some work, particularly the options screen, UI and code behind it. But I'll hand this in, it should be okay marks-wise. I'll go away and learn this shit properly and probably re-write it later on.

just as a sidey what was that app builder kit thingy I read about? some diy for the n00b

which thing? My blah in tech forum?

Well, Adobe Flash CS5 incorporated a new feature where you could compile Flash applications into native iPhone apps. So you could build the graphics in Flash, program in ActionScript and then download to an iPhone.
A couple of days before Adobe were to release CS5, Apple made a change to their developer agreement that prohibited 3rd party development tools - You had write your application in C, C++ or Objective-C (programming languages) and use Cocoa (the Apple UI).
Some people went apeshit at Apple for being so controlling while others were glad that potentially fucking awful apps were kept off the platform and Steve Jobs wrote an open letter saying Apple doesn't want some 3rd party (Adobe for example) turning iPhone into some generic piece of junk for compatibility purposes with say, Android (the "advantage" for developers with Adobe of course is their build once philosophy).
Fast forward, and 2 weeks ago Apple has changed it's tune but it's also published guidelines so developers have some idea what will get their app rejected (a sore point apparently).

This was written using Xcode (apples dev environment) in Objective-C (Apple's language of choice) and Cocoa-Touch. I'd just learn that shit if you wanna build apps it's a learning curve but far from impossible. Do it properly etc... though you need to own a mac.

Um, google has some ultra noob app builder for android, a point & click thingy, not sure what kind of power it gives you though if it's too simple. I *could* actually try it, got into some beta programme, not sure why I bothered really. It helps to have an android mobile.

ps, I think my current code is awful and the application leaks memory. But that's cos I don't know what I'm doing yet. It'll come.

Cool idea but you do realize it already exists yeah? So long as there's no rule around that...

Nah sometfhhg else.

Some interesting replies in comments section of this review of Milestone.

www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8894

I was thinking the other day about an app that allows you to DJ with your music library. Just have two pitch controls and wheels for adjustments and winding, as well a track a and track b button to load songs from your library into it. It wouldn't have to be perfect as every wannabe DJ would be into it.

The only drawback would be how much worse people playing their music out loud would be.

Weird. My iPhone works exactly how it says it does, and it's fucking awesome.

And you have iios4 on 3gs like I do? Freezes all the time esp on cam app.

I think there is a range of DJ type apps.

No, I never upgraded though the latest update (4.1?) is apparently sweet as

now if only I could get itunes to load properly and update on my pooh tah

put off firmware updates by the ridiculously long time it took last time (12 hours or more)

Yeah, most things have been done 10 times over...

4.2 is perfectly fine on 3GS. And you can hardly blame Apple for your inability to run a working computer from which to upgrade. I did a 4.2 update just the other day actually, took longer to download than it did to install, and that was a full restore too.

Best app ever!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv/4154799/Have-you-got-The-Situations-iPhone-app

cool, you do service calls?

Not for you.

ha haaa, muh poohta sensed you kris and itunes successfully d/loaded

here I come onward and upward to 4.2 (except you must have beta, yes?)

you are surely the mentalist

no? 4.2 for iphone is full release and has been for some time.

4.2 for ipad is still beta.

well the version of my iphone software (4.1) is the current version according to my itunes

you must have the beta 4.2 surely

4.2 is out in November I think?

OH. Could have sworn it was .2. .1 it is, and yes, it's working fine on all the GS's I've tried it on.

4.102 innit?

NUMBERS

oh yeah I stall want that gallery of hats.... FFS how hard could it be??

Yes it does?

And my iPhone works just fine NR. Sucks to be you I guess.

You're missing his sarcasm.

Yours is also a 4

Still sucks to be NR anyway.

hey no it doesn't I now have Tivo

and itunes 10 and ios4.win

The other thread reminded me of this.

Yes it does NR and it's really quite stupidly easy. I was gonna find an app whch does screen shots to do a walk through but then I remembered that I can't be bothered.

Kris it's more to do with the IOS innit? Which NR says he has. Anyways...

Hold your finger on the text you wish to copy, a small magnified circle appears, you move this circle until your desired text to copy is highlighted, let go. Two pins drop onto the text, you can manipulate the pins to incorporate as much text as you want to copy, once this is done, and this is the really hard part, you touch the mysterious prompt which magically appears which cryptically says "copy". You then navigate to where you want to paster and you hold your finger on the place you wish to paste, the magnified circle appears again, once that is in the right place, you then let go and then touch the similarly cryptically titled prompt which is labeled "paste". Voila! You have copied and pasted. Wow that was hard.

The thing I like so much about the IOS which the Android one hasn't *quite* got yet is how intuitive it is. I stumbled upon this function and instantly figured it out. Just like pretty much everything else on there.

What's more to do with iOS?

Clearly you haven't stumbled on the screen cap function then. App? Pfffft.

Hold down the top button. While still holding down, click the home button. Screen cap iss saved to Camera Roll on iPhone I think. Somewhere in pictures anyway.

I was replying to you saying that mine is a 4. I would have thought it had more to do with having IOS4 which NR said he had.

And good tip on the screen capture! Cheers!

if this is a propos the copy and paste I knew that aaages ago

phone crashed for second time since update an hour or so ago

crapple cripple count crapular

still AWESOME to be able to program my Tivo with it from anywhere when it and the tivo website do work together

Then, to be frank, what the fuck are you talking about?

well my man it is MIGHTY frustrating to get out your iphone to shoot an image only for it to freeze and opportunity lost ALL because of APPLE'S update(s) or some other internetty task where time is of the essence

and I never had that problem before ios4.whatever

So roll back to the old OS then.

fuck dat shit I'd have nothing cuntra to say to you

and pages and pages of apps too

I know I know I'm a hard man to get to know - they musta tested it on joe average betas and not alpha meisters like me

then of course there's the small matter of 256 mb of RAM deficit for the OS

can live with for now but iphone rage never far away (I'd love to have a droid so I could do droid rage)