Chewy Apps » xml http://www.chewyapps.com Hi, I'm Henning, and I'm an iPhone developer. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:00:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Got my App on my iPhone! http://www.chewyapps.com/2008/09/29/30/ http://www.chewyapps.com/2008/09/29/30/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:12:09 +0000 henning http://www.chewyapps.com/?p=30 Exciting days! This weekend I finally got my app running on my iPhone. It took a while to get accepted to the developer program (due to a lost email) and then I had problems getting my app working on my iPhone that were solved by upgrading to the latest SDK.

But now I have my app working on my iPhone and it’s sweet! It’s so cool to see something that you’ve only seen working in the emulator working, and working well, on the iPhone.

Well, except for one thing. It’s slow. Slow as in I don’t wanna use it slow. Now, it’s the debug build, so I’m hoping that the release build is quicker. I haven’t tested it yet due to various reasons, but I’ll be able to do so once the XML data service I rely on is back up and running. I’m crossing my fingers. Either way, I still think I need to add a spinner when the app first launches, to show that I’m working on getting the data. I also need to handle the absence of the data service better, instead of just crashing! :)

Edit: When the service I rely on stops working, my app just quits. (I still have to fix that.) I noticed that with the release build, it quits much faster! That’s a good sign, I hope. :)

]]> http://www.chewyapps.com/2008/09/29/30/feed/ 0 TouchXML for the Win! http://www.chewyapps.com/2008/09/25/touchxml-for-the-win/ http://www.chewyapps.com/2008/09/25/touchxml-for-the-win/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:10:54 +0000 henning http://www.chewyapps.com/?p=28 Last night I implemented saving and loading of the friends list. So now my app is actually useful! I used XML as the file format, because it’s so easy to use and read. Writing the file was easy enough, I just built up an NSString and wrote it out. Reading the file, though, was a different matter. I had previously used the XML reader as in the SeismicXML example, but frankly I didn’t like that method. It was a big pain in the butt. What I wanted was something like NSXMLDocument, which isn’t available on the iPhone. Luckily some wonderful dude created a look-alike library in the form of TouchXML. And some other wonder dude wrote up a RSS tutorial using TouchXML. So after all that, actually reading my XML file became a much easier thing.

Next step? I have lots of little things to do, even now that the basic functionality of my app is working. But I think that maybe now I should actually try to put it onto my iPhone and make sure it works there, and not just in the simulator.

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