Apple – Adobe war. iTunes App Store changes
Bloomberg has reported today “that Apple Inc. will give software developers more leeway in how they create applications for its iPhone and iPad, a move likely to benefit Adobe Systems Inc. those software had been panned by Apple’s Steve Jobs.” Xcode may not be the only tool to develop iPhone apps, and finally Apple and Adobe will work on Flash issues as well. We discussed it earlier. See Slow Script error… and Flash story.
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User and company name comments in Xcode projects
Question: I am wondering how you change the comments that Xcode puts in the top of each source file to set the proper username and company name instead of updating every file by hand if these macro fields are different from the default settings of Address Book. I am speaking about these source code lines:
// Created by MyUserName on 8/19/10.
// Copyright __MyCompanyName__ 2010. All rights reserved.
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iPhone SDK 4 binary is not accepted by iTunes
Question: I’m going crazy. I’m trying to upload a new binary compiled by the latest iPhone SDK 4 to the iTunes App Store. I have got the error message: “Apple is not currently accepting applications built with this version of the SDK.” I build the code under SDK 4.0 with a deployment target of OS 3.0 or below and it does not work. I checked my code on the built-in simulator before uploading the bundle. Provisioning profile is correctly selected. I have even reinstalled the iPhone SDK 4.0.
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Icons and launch images for iPhone and iPad apps
Question: As a graphic designer I often have to design icons, logos, launch and background images for iPhone applications. Latest apps run on iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3, iPhone 4GS and iPad and there is a big boom and confusion in this area. I use Adobe Photoshop CS4. What size and type of images do I have to create for such a project?

