What is Easy APNs?
If you are a native iPhone application developer, you may have heard of the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). There are a lot of excellent online guides on how to get your application to receive remote notifications… but what about the other piece of the puzzle… ACTUALLY SENDING A MESSAGE?!?!

This very cool project is brought you by Manifest Interactive.

*NOTE: I was NOT able to get this up and running on GoDaddy Hosting for some unknown reason, but the same exact files worked flawlessly on (mt) MediaTemple

Source Code for Presentation available on GitHub:

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For more information check out Development on Doom Classic By John Carmack, Technical Director, Id Software.

If you’re not an iPhone developer you can purchase the game from the AppStore

Features:

Play the legendary first person shooter, DOOM, with an iPhone or iPod Touch. Fight through 36 missions in four action-packed episodes: Knee-Deep in the Dead, Shores of Hell, Inferno, and Thy Flesh Consumed.

Experience DOOM multiplayer on your mobile device, including Deathmatch and Cooperative play for up to four players via wireless internet.

Choose from three different control types and customize the interface to suit your style.

Explore the depths of Mars while utilizing the topdown map to help you explore and save your game on the fly.

Listen to the original soundtrack or disable it and use your own iPod music.

Description from the developers site:

* A large number of iPhone UI elements have been added and/or vectorized. I think I can now safely assert that MockApp 1.0 includes the most comprehensive vector iPhone UI library of any easy iPhone prototyping tool out there (no, the SDK is not a prototyping tool that my mom could use).
* The library file is now organized and commented based on the ultimate authority: Apple’s iPhone Human Interface guidelines. It even shows examples of some UI elements on an iPhone held by Steve Jobs’ hand (OK, maybe that wasn’t his hand).
* The template file, where you create your mockup, now features a shiny iPhone as backdrop for your app screens with working Home button and all.
* The template file now supports vertical and horizontal iPhone screen mockups.

If you write an app that depends on internet access in order to function properly Apple requires that you detect the state of the connection and report it to the user when that connection is unavailable. If you do not Apple will reject your app on the basis that it is confusing to the user. Confusing because the app does not work and Apple assumes that the user will not understand why. Makes sense.

Here is one way to determine whether or not the users device has airplane mode enabled . . .

1. Add SBUsesNetwork to the Info.plist
2. Change its type to Boolean
3. Add a check mark to enable

Here is handy little project that detects whether or not your application has access to a WiFi network:

Download TestWifi_3.0.zip

Here is another handy little project that detects whether or not your application has any network access:

Download NetConnectDetection_3.0.zip

Feel free to use any of the above code in any way you wish. I am providing it in the hopes that it will help save someone from the headache that I experienced all day yesterday trying to get network detection to work

If you find any errors or corrections please notify me and I will update the sample apps. Thanks!

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Developers can easily track what people are saying about their apps and see how it ranks in all the App Store countries.

• Search for apps using a familiar interface.

• Translate app reviews into your native language (language support is limited to what the Google Translation API supports).

• Downloaded app reviews are saved and can be easily deleted.

svn checkout http://reviewscraper.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

From their site:

The newest reports can be downloaded with a single tap and all numbers are automatically converted to your (selectable) local currency.

With clear bar charts you’ll get a quick daily overview of how your apps are doing in the store. For each report you can view percentages of countries and each of your product’s share of the revenue.

The Graphs section offers trend charts for all or individual apps and a pie chart that shows revenue by region for a selectable date range.

The source code can be downloaded here from Id’s ftp server

If you are interested in running Wolf3d on the iPhone simulator you need to make some minor code modification. Instruction can be found at ghostradio.net