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I really must give a shout out to Floyd Price (floydprice.com) for this little recommendation too.

PhoneGap

PhoneGap is an open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps. Build apps in HTML and JavaScript and still take advantage of core features in iPhone/iTouch, iPad, Google Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs

Write on any mobile platform in HTML / JavaScript? Awesome! I’m sure to be playing with this one too in the coming weeks.

Last week I stumbled across this little gem of a Framework, cocos2d-iphone

cocos2d for iPhone is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on the cocos2d design: it uses the same API, but instead of using python it uses objective-c.

I’ve not delved too deeply into it, but in very short order I do have sprites moving about the screen and interacting with each other. My only criticism would be the tutorial stopped so quickly! I do intend to check out the original code to see if they have more tutorials there.

iPhone port of Frogger anyone? Done already!

So I was just thinking to myself, what could I write that no one had come up with yet ….. and it came to me that with FaceTime being released with iOS4 – we were going to need an answer phone service of course!

Imagine the joy of missing a FaceTime call but being able to see the dissapointment of the callers face as you watch their message

Problem though, which I think is summed up quite nicely by this article here

I’ve heard it mentioned elsewhere, one cannot programmattically hook into the phone call area of an iPhone using the current SDK. I’m looking to learn iPhone development and Obj C, with the end goal of creating a call timer app that runs in the background and alerts the user when a call has gone on too long.

Is it even possible to hook into methods liek that?

Sensible question I thought – easily do-able on the Android platform.

No. Your app will be interrupted when the user receives a call, and your code will not be allowed to run while the user is on the call. Additionally, there are no background apps allowed for the iphone. The best you can get is push notification, but you can’t create a daemon or anything like that.

and …

Yeah, unfortunately this is the design decision Apple went with in order to get some extra levels of security. They were probably worried that someone would write an app that listened in on calls or something to that effect. Welcome to the restricted world of iPhone development. You can do a lot with the iPhone, but you learn quickly there are walls everywhere

Not quite the development platform that I was hoping for then! Even with multi tasking in iOS 4, I’m going to have to attack this from a different angle. Less “hook” apps, more “direct” apps.

So after a couple of weeks of mucking about with server hosts and domain registrars, my new project is more or less up and running! Welcome to my development blog for bleedingEdge.mobi

Over the coming weeks (months?) it’s my goal to share with you the trials and tribulations of a .NET developer trying to break into the world of Objective C 2 and iPhone development.

I went through the hello world sample a couple of nights ago and my head is still spinning! Hopefully by delving into more samples the murk should start to clear.

I’m on a waiting list for my iPhone 4, so in the mean while where better to make my first blog post from? A borrowed iPhone 3G

WordPress app FTW!

Just to try and convince you that I’m not just another nerd, I also spend a lot of time working on my car. Please check out my other blog at cars.bleedingedge.mobi all comments and suggestions are always welcomed.