Sunday, February 26, 2012
Writing or programming
I have been remiss lately in doing any serious writing. I have been distracted by Apps. It is a different kind of writing, not so much is it "its" or "it's" but, "if ([[segue identifier]isEqualToString:@"Notes"])". I have by sheer dint of persistence managed to begin to understand the niceties of Objective C, the programming language used by Apple for its devices, iPhone, iPad, etc. It has not been without a fair degree of blue air at times, but I have succeeded. The result is a first App that to a user will likely invoke the comment, "is that all?", but then that is the whole idea of Apple's app development, the user experience needs to be simple and intuitive. The technical support is interesting. Apple provides two instances free within a year and any further need to be paid for. The blogs tend to fall into two distinct populations, the really simple and the arcane with not much between. I did get some help from a roundabout source in England, and his help was mainly asking me a couple of questions that made me go back and look at the code and rethink my approach. Now I await Apple to see if the App will be accepted as is or if they will ask for changes. I know it does not crash, or at least it does not crash on my iPhone, so perhaps they will be generous and accept it and then add it to the myriads of apps that populate the App Store. When it is available I will post again with more details.
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