Today I’m going to write a post about what I think on comparing between Corona SDK by anscamobile and Cocos2d framework.

As I’m planning to launch a new project that based on mobile platform primarily on Apple iOS 5, I’m considering between Corona SDK and cocos2d and I decide to avoid the native [...]]]> Hi there,

Today I’m going to write a post about what I think on comparing between Corona SDK by anscamobile and Cocos2d framework.

As I’m planning to launch a new project that based on mobile platform primarily on Apple iOS 5, I’m considering between Corona SDK and cocos2d and I decide to avoid the native iOS framework because I need to build an app that can differentiate from normal app.

Also, productivity is the point too as these two frameworks can be boost productivity while comparing to the original iOS framework by Apple.

Because if you want to make money, it doesn’t really matter on how you ‘create’ the iPhone app but it is how you ‘marketing’ [...]]]> Here I’m writing about what’s good about the casual games and how can you make money from it.

After I’ve written the headline, I found that I denied it by myself.

Because if you want to make money, it doesn’t really matter on how you ‘create’ the iPhone app but it is how you ‘marketing’ the app.

Yup, I found many good applications in the AppStore from my patient trying to browse to see the apps that stay in the position lower than 50th in each country.

But with the lack of good marketing effort (maybe the programmer didn’t do any marketing?), their apps were sink in the bottom of the AppStore and no one seen them!

So, to make a lot of money from iPhone app, I suggest this…

- If you don’t have any idea or don’t know what type of application you want to make, just focus to ‘casual games’

Why have to be ‘casual games’?

Because of now, many big names already joined in the iPhone gaming market share and they are all ported their famous games into iPhone, so, the result is,

All hard core gamers will always stick with big names’ hard core games instead of spend some bucks to try the games from indies.

So, the space for you and me almost are only ‘casual games’

The other good things of ‘casual games’ is… It takes so short time to develop compared to those hard core games.

Other thing is I found many iPhone owner love ‘casual games’ than ‘hard core games’ because they play the games on iPhone in a matter of minutes only.

Like playing in Star Buck while waiting for friends, colleagues or family.

So, they can feel more comfortably to pick a ‘casual game’ instead of ‘long time needed game’.

Well, after you have clicked with some idea to make a casual game. It’s a time to…

- Make it

If you are not a programmer, I suggest you to use some outsourcing service like freelancer.com, odesk.com, elance.com or …

Anyway, if it is possible, pick some experienced programmers from your local so you can keep track easily and your casual games will stay in timeline.

If you really can’t see where to outsource, please feel free to reply to this thread and my team might be able to help you.

- Marketing, the crucial part to be determined if your casual games will success or fail!

Nothing to say much about this, because if you are an experienced online marketer, you known how to do it.

But let me summarize various ways to do…

- Blogging about it, yes, get some domain and use WordPress.

- Using Facebook, viral marketing is always great.

- Record a short video while the programmer is working, just to show some awesome game-play of your casual games, then post to youtube, your blog, …

- When it almost finished, find some good iPhone app review websites and submit to them to make a review, this might cost you some bucks but it is efficient if you picked the right review site.

- If you have some budget, make some prize, competition to buzz it!

- Give out as free first, to make it in top ten and get some good reviews then charge later.

- Separate between free version and paid version are good too.

- Advertise in CPA network.

I strongly believe, if you can do just 70% of what I’ve written, you will get more than 500% of ROI in a few months.

But the problem is, when you will begin?

Click here for more details on How to Make Money From iPhone.

I hope you got idea now how to make money from iPhone casual games.

Apple now generated a new market which continually growing on mobile application which no one ever did before. Steve Jobs is a genius.

And the best thing is it generates a space for ordinary people to join and get some commissions [...]]]> Nowadays, you and I have to accept than Apple had changed the mobile world.

Apple now generated a new market which continually growing on mobile application which no one ever did before. Steve Jobs is a genius.

And the best thing is it generates a space for ordinary people to join and get some commissions from it.

Yes, ordinary people like you and me!

By entering the iPhone/iPad apps scene, you have to learn something like how to develop and marketing an iPhone app. This is technically and need some learning timeframe.

However, the most important part is not how to create an app but how to profit from the app.

Yes, I’m talking about marketing and strategic planning.

This post just targeted to open the thread about how to make money from iPhone/iPad apps.

I will share more details on it soon. So, please keep updates.

For people who don’t want to wait my information, please visit http://www.MakeMoneyFromiPhone.com which I’m selling all processes start from building the app, submitting to AppStore and marketing it.

Cheers,

I’ve did two apps using an awesome Corona SDK in 24 hours due to the reason that my client is in hurry stage, so the timeline is so short.

However, with the awesome boost on productivity provided by [...]]]> Last evening, I’ve finished a demonstration two iPad applications to my client and the feedback is great.

I’ve did two apps using an awesome Corona SDK in 24 hours due to the reason that my client is in hurry stage, so the timeline is so short.

However, with the awesome boost on productivity provided by Corona SDK. I can made two apps and reached what I expected within 24 hours.

Two apps are…

- Interactive demonstration about lighting environment.

- Offline catalog through Corona Comics.

I will post more details later.

See yah

Also, if you are a developer, the SDK also released now.

If you are in production, you should stick with 4.2.1 first as the beta iOS didn’t allow you to build and distribute apps to AppStore.

Good [...]]]> Just to let you guys know the iOS 4.3 beta 2 for all iOS devices was released today.

Also, if you are a developer, the SDK also released now.

If you are in production, you should stick with 4.2.1 first as the beta iOS didn’t allow you to build and distribute apps to AppStore.

Good luck.

My targeting is to find out the framework that fit for rich graphics application development which support multi platform including iOS (iPhone, iPad) [...]]]> As I have to research on the new project I’m getting from local clients, so, I would like to research on the current available framework which will boost up my productivity significantly.

My targeting is to find out the framework that fit for rich graphics application development which support multi platform including iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Android based devices.

After got some research for a few days, I got the following frameworks in my short list.

- MonoTouch : Not actually a framework, but an alternative approach to save ton of my time spending with a myth of Objective-C but I’m not sure if it will works well on Android or not.

- Unity 3D : A great quality framework which proven to works well with both 2D and 3D platform. However, a bit expensive for me. But honestly, I will get one soon for sure.

- Corona : From anscamobile, this is looking great for developing a rich graphics application on 2D platform. Not quite expensive to get started and the trial is great because it allows me to deploy the test app into my devices. I just need to purchase a license when I want to distribute to AppStore only. It’s fair.

Well, to say honestly, I love with Unity 3D because it provides a lot of what I really want. However, with its licensing model and the different of features. It has too many choice to force me to choose and I choose PRO which has an expensive price tag compared to its competitors.

So, this time, I will get Corona from anscamobile, and next time, for a bigger project, I’m surely will try Unity 3D.

I love you all. Keep up your great works!

Before ending, I copied the image to let you see how Corona code compare to Objective-C. (Copied from anscamobile’s Corona web site)

Good luck programming on your devices!

I have downloaded the iOS 4.3 beta from my developer subscription and restored my device and finally I got told by iTunes that it can’t activate this device because I haven’t added my UUID into my provisioning portal yet!

OMG, I actually forget it!

So, now, [...]]]> Last night, it happens to me, my iPhone 4…

I have downloaded the iOS 4.3 beta from my developer subscription and restored my device and finally I got told by iTunes that it can’t activate this device because I haven’t added my UUID into my provisioning portal yet!

OMG, I actually forget it!

So, now, how can I look at my UUID as the iTunes itself just say it can’t activate my iPhone without showing any other screen that let me look at its UUID.

What?

Luckily, I found from Google that I can see the UUID by clicking on the Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More info

Then select the USB device that shown as iPhone and you can look at its serial number, actually it is the same as UUID.

Just copy and paste it into your provisioning portal and re-plug iPhone and iTunes will activate it now.

Very lucky for me that I found the solution or my iPhone 4 will turn into a f*ck’n ass junk!

Thanks god.

@interface MREntitiesConverter : NSObject {
NSMutableString* resultString;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableString* resultString;
- (NSString*)convertEntiesInString:(NSString*)s;
@end

@implementation MREntitiesConverter
@synthesize resultString;
- (id)init
{
if([super init]) {
//resultString = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
}
return self;
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)s [...]]]> Just create an interface by following this code.

@interface MREntitiesConverter : NSObject {
NSMutableString* resultString;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableString* resultString;
- (NSString*)convertEntiesInString:(NSString*)s;
@end

@implementation MREntitiesConverter
@synthesize resultString;
- (id)init
{
if([super init]) {
//resultString = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
}
return self;
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)s {
[self.resultString appendString:s];
}
- (NSString*)convertEntiesInString:(NSString*)s {
if(s == nil) {
NSLog(@”ERROR : Parameter string is nil”);
}
resultString = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
NSString* xmlStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", s];
NSData *data = [xmlStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSXMLParser* xmlParse = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:data];
[xmlParse setDelegate:self];
[xmlParse parse];
NSString* returnStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@”%@”,resultString];
[resultString release];
return returnStr;
}
- (void)dealloc {
//[resultString release];
[super dealloc];
}
@end

When you want to decode HTML characters within a string, just call the app like this.

MREntitiesConverter *converter = [[MREntitiesConverter alloc] init];
someStr = [converter convertEntiesInString:@"abcdefghiijXXXYZ"];
[converter release];

Easy enough?

Here is the sample code…

UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] init];
[alert setTitle:@"My Title"];
[alert setMessage:@"My message"];
[alert setDelegate:self];
[alert addButtonWithTitle:@"OK"];
[alert addButtonWithTitle:@"Cancel"];
[alert [...]]]> This can be done easily just like when you are working with the standard ViewController.

UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] init];
[alert setTitle:@"My Title"];
[alert setMessage:@"My message"];
[alert setDelegate:self];
[alert addButtonWithTitle:@"OK"];
[alert addButtonWithTitle:@"Cancel"];
[alert show];
[alert release];

With this, you can detect which button was pressed by handling the alertView message like this.

-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
if (buttonIndex == 0)
{
// Yes, do something
}
else if (buttonIndex == 1)
{
// No
}
}

And when I do this in my game, I’ll pause the game first and resume when player pushed on the button. This can be done easily via sharedDirector as well.

[[Director sharedDirector] pause]; //Pause your game
[[Director sharedDirector] resume]; //Resume your game

Hope you enjoy!

What you want to do is just creating your splash screen image in PNG format which have 320×480 resolution for portrait or [...]]]> Well done, I don’t know if there is any other framework that let you add a splash screen easier than the iPhone SDK or not. I never see it.

What you want to do is just creating your splash screen image in PNG format which have 320×480 resolution for portrait or 480×320 if your app is running on landscape orientation.

Then name it “Default.png”, please note that you have to name it “Default.png” not “default.png”. It’s case sensitive.

Then just put the file into your project and it’s DONE!

You will see your splash screen until your first view was loaded successfully.

Short & Sweet?

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setIdleTimerDisabled:YES];

It just disables the Idle Timer of iPhone OS for my application.

Sweet!

When you run this code, it will capture the current screenshot and add into the Camera Roll.

It’s not yet included in the official SDK but you can [...]]]> It just likes what you did by running the app and hold the stand-by button then push on the home button.

When you run this code, it will capture the current screenshot and add into the Camera Roll.

It’s not yet included in the official SDK but you can get it run easily.

@interface UIApplication (Extended)
-(void) _writeApplicationSnapshot;
@end
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] _writeApplicationSnapshot];

Yo!

Credited to “The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook” which I think is the best book for beginner to getting started on iPhone SDK development.