Today I spent several hours pixel twiddling UITabBar icons. The iPhone UITabBar class requires icons to be in an unusual format, initially created for the Safari browser. Blogs were replete with recommendations. Use Gimp! No, use Photoshop and mess with channels! Image matte, alpha transparency, JPG, PNG, grayscale, etc. etc.
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Apple has moved to another playing field altogether. They make the netbook, ThinkPad, and all the other Windows boxes look antiquated. The next wave of computing is in your hand, in the cloud.
I found an iPhone simulator written in Adobe Air while Googling around yesterday. Very cool. I hope Joe continues to evolve this simulator, adding support for all the standard controls in the Cocoa Touch environment.
A few months ago I started playing with XCode and the iPhone development environment. I plunked down the $99 fee to join Apple’s development program.
Guess what.
The very same classes we see in flash — Graphics, BitmapData, BlurFilter — are mirrored by Quartz 2D and the Foundation classes of the iPhone. Its not exactly a perfect [...]