Weekend iPhone Warrior

I know you haven't seen a posting since last Friday I've been busy, so this one will cover the last few days of what has transpired since then. On Friday I didn't do much work on the application it was more of a read and research day. I did some reading to understand some concepts specifically about TableViewControllers and working with them.


I got some good feedback from a couple of readers about the user interface for the application I posted a question about one of my views and they gave me some suggestions about using TableViewController. So I did my homework and prepared myself to do a simple proof of concept to see how the TableView would look in my application. Saturday I got up and did a design on paper of how I wanted the view to look and function that took a couple of hours. After doing the paper design session I did a sample project that had just the TableView and began coding the view based on my design. Doing that exercise I gained some good knowledge on how the UITableView and UITableViewCell works and how to create the delegate methods for the UITableView.

Having the "Beginning iPhone Development" book really helped me to understand the UITableView and UITableViewCell classes because of what I read the previous evening. I'm feeling really good about my progress so far even though I feel like I have a long way to go with building this application. I'm not feeling any pressure just yet, even if I do I will really begin to shine. I'm trying to get finish coding by the end of October so that I can have November and December to polish and prepare for submission to AppStore.

I try to put in as much time as possible on working on this application if I can get one under my belt then another and another I will be on my way. I'm really have fun programming for the iPhone even though it's a lot of work. I have friends now that have come to me with concepts for iPhone applications as a matter of fact one good friend of mine contacted me today about one. So I'm going to become very good a building iPhone applications and hopefully make a good living doing it.

Today I did a trademark search for two name one for the application I'm currently working on and another for a game that I want to tackle here really soon. Neither one of the names are registered so in the coming weeks or months I will be applying for a trademark, cause we got to protect ourselves. Tonight I will be doing some more coding on the application finishing up my view with the UITableView and UITableViewCells. I'm going to work on adding a different icons for each row in the UITableView.

As alway you can subscribe to this blog to keep up with my progress as well you can follow me on twitter (www.twitter.com/pettish) as I get further along will try to provide screenshots of the application and when I really get it running I will post a video first look at the full application running on the iPhone.

Thanks and I appreciate you reading my blog.