iClassic Released

On 08/12/2009, in Release, iPhone, by Pelaez

iClassic, the highly expected media player for the iPhone and iPod Touch has made it to the Cydia Store.

If you don’t know what iClassic is, you can look here.

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iClassic: The reason for the delay

On 02/12/2009, in iPhone, by Pelaez

A lot of people are impatient about the release of the iClassic, and believe me, I’m more impatient than anybody, but there’s a reason for the delay.

The app is going into the Cydia Store, which is run by Saurik. To have the package on the Cydia Store, we need to give our payment details to Saurik, and I’m guessing he has to do stuff on his server, before we send the package for hosting (it will be on BigBoss’ repo, btw).

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Swipe Controls 1.5 on Cydia

On 30/11/2009, in Release, iPhone, by Pelaez

EDIT 2: The app has been downloaded almost 6k times in less than 48 hours. (Link)

EDIT: The app is available on Cydia now. (Yay!)

Compared to the hype iClassic has generated, this app probably doesn’t mean a lot, but it’s my very first public app, so I do care for it :) .

Anyway, I updated it a little bit, adding an “interface”.

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nil

On 18/11/2009, in Development, Tips, by Pelaez

Overview

nil is ObjC’s null, which means that the pointer to the object doesn’t really point to anything. This is usually when you haven’t created the object.

However, in ObjC, nil is much more useful than in other languages. In languages like Java, if an object is null and you try to do pretty much anything with it, it will fail at runtime. nil is a lot more flexible.

In ObjC, you can send nil as a parameter for a selector(that’s how methods are called on ObjC, will use that from now on), receive nil from one, and even call  a selector on nil.

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Making .debs

On 03/11/2009, in Development, Tutorials, iPhone, by Pelaez

This is a very small guide to create .deb packages for your apps. You’ll need a system with dpkg installed, I’m guessing you can do it on the iDevice, but I do it on Linux.

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