iClassic: The reason for the delay

Pelaez — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:52:57 +0000

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).

And that’s the problem. Saurik is unreachable. We’re assuming, from his last tweet, more than a week ago, that he’s still on Germany, but it’s just a guess, the fact is that he’s not answering. (I read somewhere that we were waiting for Saurik’s approval. That’s not the case).

Please understand, however, that it’s not Saurik’s fault, he probably has important things to do, and we can’t blame him for that, so I’ll ask anybody who ever thought of trying to contact him to complain, DON’T. If you e-mail him, you’ll only bury our e-mails even more, and a lot of people tweet to him already, don’t spam him more for no reason.

Finally, the app is working, and we’ve sent review versions to some people (3, as of right now), and until Saurik answers, I won’t have any updates. When he does, I’ll announce it, and it shouldn’t take longer than a day for the app to be available.

PS. I know there are other stores (like the Rock app), but we’re gonna stick with Cydia Store. If anybody deserves a share of our profit, that’s Saurik, also, the Rock app requires you to install a bunch of stuff and we don’t want to force you to have on your device.

It’d be a lot of help if you helped me spread the word for this, by clicking in one of the “Share and Enjoy” buttons below!

NSLog and Syslog

Pelaez — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:50:25 +0000

To help you debugging, there’s the NSLog method, and Syslog, on Cydia, by saurik, enables logging in the iDevice.

To use it, simply put:

NSLog(@"A string here");

Then, when executed, it will write that to a file on the iDevice, on /var/log/syslog.

To see the log, you can open the file on a text editor, or simply use:

$ cat /var/log/syslog

To make it easier to find the logs that matter to you (because keep in mind that it will log whatever the Springboard and other apps want to log), what I do is to add some letters at the beginning of the string.
Imagine we are making an app called “Kernel Panic App”, so when you log something, you would do it like this:

NSLog(@"KPA: Successfully saved the file");

Then, to see only tags by that app, we would do this on the terminal:

$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep KPA

That will output only the lines that have our tag on it. A couple of lines that don’t matter to us (depending on what tag we are using) might slip, but certainly, they will be a lot less.

If you want to save that output into a file, you can do this on the terminal:

$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep KPA >> MyLog1

Also, for a better log, you can put variables in the string. It’s a string format, so it accepts things like:

NSLog(@"Objects: %i, User: %@", anInt, anNSString)

That way, you can produce a better log, by outputting numbers and strings that might be useful to know what is your app doing.

Hope you can find a good use for this!

Please send me an e-mail if I got anything wrong, so I can fix it.

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iClassic: The reason for the delay

NSLog and Syslog