Injoit.com iPhone developers’ blog

Last Thursday, June the 17th, Taras Filatov, director of Injoit, has given a short presentation on issues of authentication and in particular using OAuth in mob1serv and in Android apps in general. To remind you, mob1serv is a universal API for iPhones and Android and we are releasing Android libraries for it soon along with lots of other exciting updates.

Mob1serv uses a multiple level cascade security system second to none and it is difficult and unnecessary to explain it in one presentation. On other hand, OAuth is an open standard and helped us a lot in developing part of our security system so we were glad to share some information about it with Android developers community. Follow more updates in this blog and at mob1serv’s website and blog.

We have received an e-mail from Amazon that Amazon’s Kindle SDK (KDK) has become available for developers to try it’s beta version.

Those developers interested should register at Kindle Development Portal.

We plan to master the KDK shortly so contact Injoit to develop your software for Amazon Kindle.

• there are certain technology/interface improvements/changes which need to be taken into account when planning new / porting existing projects for iPad
• it is worthwhile to start the development now at least using the simulator, to be prepared to launch your app in March when device starts shipping - this should help to win a bigger market share presumably
• Injoit has learned the new SDK and is ready to develop 100% iPad compatible apps from this very moment, so contact us for iPad software development

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As it was with iPhone SDK, Injoit is quick to learn new technologies and become proficient in them. Here is a short update from us about the industry’s most demanded technologies.

Apple Tablet

Apple tablet is going to be announced today (read more about this) so we have already agreed with some of our clients to port their apps to Apple Tablet as soon as it’s available. It should be based on iPhone OS so the porting would hopefully be just a matter of reworking pictures and coordinates in XML files and for some of our apps could be even done w/o our developers’ involvement, but.. with Apple, who knows?

Amazon Kindle

Our clients from US report that Kindle is massive over there but currently all we can do as developers is subscribe to the news and wait until its SDK is revealed. Hopefully it will be very soon, as they promise, in February. We will surely master the technology once it is out, so you may already place preliminary Amazon Kindle software development orders with us at this point.

Android

Again just to remind you, we are not all iPhone and also do professional development for other mobile devices and Android is one of our favorites. There are lots of differences between platforms, for example Android allows to access more of system features, collect more data, for example, for statistics. However, interface handling is more difficult in Android and we find when do iPhone to Android software porting that animations and transitions which were pretty easily implemented in iPhone SDK, require much more coding for Android.

Our Android products are usually designed so that they are compatible with all Android devices starting from 2.0 and all screen resolutions.

Resume

So stay with Injoit, subscribe for our RSS/Twitter or better contact us directly to discuss your projects, and if you’re developer you know there are many possibilities for collaboration, and one of them is mob1serv.com iPhone/Android universal server side solution service we’re opening in February. Enjoy it!

Please check our Youtube channel for the videos of our latest projects. We have uploaded more than 25 projects there which are all iPhone apps and games. So this is kind of our video portfolio which is very handy to check our work. We will be uploading both finished apps and also some interesting videos from iPhone development.

Today we are having a real life test of our online high scores system because iCombat game version 1.2  got approved by Apple and there has been a flow of users populating the DB with their scores since then.

And suddenly it has stopped working - the online table wouldn’t show and as a result I had to learn a bit more about OAuth system we are using for the authentication purposes.

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Posted a bit of advice from developer’s point of view on finding a right outsourcing developer at iCombat blog. Check it or digg it if you like it.

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Good news for those who think about developing their iPhone application and have this work outsourced due to various reasons. A client of ours, based in US, has started an online blog telling in real time about the development of iCombat game which we are working on currently.

This is a really exclusive blog to read as there are not much resources of this kind and you are able to track the development of a great iPhone game from the very beginning!

Check “making iCombat” - the best advice on outsourcing your iPhone development.

This is one of my favorite quotes :)   :

I posted an add and received about 10 responses within the first several days.  Some were developers just spamming me, others had relevant experience but were divided into a range of ratings from 3.5 to 5 out of 5.  I initially contacted the higher rated ones who had positive feedback on past assignments but with one from the Balkans I found that his English proficiency was far below what would be necessary to communicate effectively.  He clearly was very talented but I got the feeling he was using Google translate to answer my e-mails.  Another team from Pakistan spoke great English and they spent quite a bit of time on chat with me getting to understand the project.  I liked them but their estimate came in at 4 man months - roughly 2-3x longer than anybody else!  The process was tedious between getting NDA’s signed and sending out the specs to receive a quote (see Taking Care of the Legal Stuff entry) but I ended up with a few good options that I felt would work.

I decided on a team of developers from the Ukraine whom I had found worked on an application roughly similar to what I wanted to make.  I contacted them and immediately knew they would be easy to work with.  From their English level to experience with similar projects to their extensive list of published apps I knew Injoit could execute on what they promised.  For more about the process of finalizing the specs and signing up with them see the related entry Contract Signed!.  So far working with them has been great, they are timely and easy to communicate with so we will see what happens.

iCombat is a promising project which might become a bestseller in App Store so find the latest news on its development on its website and blog mentioned above. Feel free to comment and post your suggestions.

My livejournal friend TheKonst has posted his interpretation of Scrum management technology:

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