Tag: dev
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cross-compiling for iPhone dev
Update: Proof-of-concept demo. Also, updated the script for building with the 10.6 SDK. Update #2: Source code for demo project released. Update #3: script for use with tesseract v3 posted. I recently had need to use an open-source library in an iPhone project. Recalling the earlier work necessary in compiling the libraries needed for openFrameworks […]
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openFrameworks iPhone 3GS / OS 3.0
i’ve been dealing with a performance bug in a particle + accelerometer oF app. the same project which has run very smoothly on a first generation iPhone with OS 2.2.1 has a noticeable stutter on an iPhone 3GS with OS 3.0. there was no improvement despite several rounds of optimizing the openGL drawing code and […]
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…little help (oh, malloc)?
i’m having a time of it tracking down a resource allocation bloat culprit in an iPhone app i’m working on. i’ve narrowed it down to when i’m rapidly updating the center property of a UIImageView. a snippet from the Instruments application is below: there are hundreds (if not thousands) of these messages, and the object […]
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git outta here…
I’m switching my Source Control Management software to git. Performance has been great, I’m learning to branch and merge with wild abandon and philosophically it’s right on (what with the distributed model and all). Creating a new remote repository on my private server was *almost* too easy. The one snafu was getting sshd to include […]
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(overly simplistic) saving state in oF for iPhone
There was a recent comment about saving / restoring application state when using openFrameworks for iPhone which got me to thinking about how to do it. Apple’s frameworks provide a fairly thorough way to save state to the disk and restore later. There seem to be three primary ways to do this: simple plist files […]
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Using openFrameworks for iPhone dev
[Also available at ITPedia. Watch video of the BarCampNYC4 presentation.] This is an overview of getting set up using openFrameworks for iPhone development. What is openFrameworks? openFrameworks is a “a C++ library for creative coding”. It shares a similar philosophy with Processing (as a library for Java). The intended audience “are folks using computers for creative, artistic […]