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iAd – Advertising through the iPhone

iAd is one of the latest offerings from Apple for their huge iPhone developer base. iAd is simply Mobile Advertising through iPhone. This is a great opportunity for iPhone developers who develop free apps to earn some income even while their apps remain free.

Using advertisements has two parts: first, developing the advertisements for the iPhone and second, developing the iPhone application to show these Ads. Regarding the advertisements, these will be interactive as well as live (with videos, games, maps etc.) But the best part for developers is  the development of iPhone applications in which they can … Continue Reading

Sending mail with attachment from iPhone Application

iPhone applications dealing with data (Budgets, Sales, etc.) are much more useful when we can send the data through mail. The data collected can be moved to a central location and used by other  people or applications.

The iPhone SDK has provided developers with the MFMailComposeViewController class, which can be used to display a  standard interface that manages the editing and sending of an email message. This UI will have the facilities to add recipient mail ids in To, Cc or Bcc. There are options to specify the subject line and type in the content of the … Continue Reading

No regular drop down control in iPhone?

iPhone is one of the latest gadget, which has revolutionized the daily life with easy to use applications (utilities, games etc…) having beautiful user interfaces. There are iPhone applications for anything and everything which a user needs. Thus iPhone provides everything required to a user, with literally a single “tap” (click) on the screen.

When coming to the design of an iPhone application, the developer has to be much careful of how the User Interface is designed? iPhone is a mobile device with high quality display, so the UI designed should be very attractive at the same … Continue Reading