iPad by Apple is a truly amazing tablet. It lets you do practically everything you can expect out of a tablet and no wonder if it exceeds your expectations. The best part of an iPad is that you can even use it to earn good money by becoming a developer. Now you can always develop new and attractive applications for iTunes App store, but what many people don’t know is that you can even develop Games for an iPad. Now that sounds interesting, isn’t it?
It indeed sounds lucrative to be able to create your own iPad games. You can use your own created game to use an as example of your skills for your prospective employers, as part of your portfolio, and of course, to earn money by selling it on App Store. What is important to note, however, that it is anything but a child’s play to create iPad games. One would need to dedicate a lot of time for mastering the skills that are necessary to create the game applications. You should be ready to spare a lot of your time as the whole process calls for much effort and considerable time. However, it is certainly not an impossible job; if you are determined you can do it.
Here is some information on what is required to create games for an iPad.
• Learn Objective C
Objective C is the programming language that is universally used to create applications not only for iPad, but also for iPod and iPhone. This process is time consuming and will require you to spend some dedicated time to study the subject everyday for some months at least. It might be easier to get yourself enrolled in a technical school to learn the subject in a most professional manner.
• Join the Apple’s iOS Developer Program
It costs 99 dollars per year to join this program. When you register yourself, you are allowed to download the latest iPad software development kit or SDK in short, test the developed applications on a virtual iPad and then finally upload it to App Store for selling.
• Develop and Code
Once you have gained the required skills, you can then start developing the game concept and start coding it. You may want to hire a graphics designer to do the graphics for your dream game; otherwise you would need to study to master the skill of graphics designing also.
• Testing Phase
It is very important that you test your game extensively before uploading it to App Store for selling. You can also distribute it to some of your friends with iPad to know their feedback. Catch and fix as many bugs as possible.
• Submit
Once the game has passed the testing phase, you can submit it to iTunes Connect through the “Program Portal” under your Developer account. The Developer Certificate given to you at the time of registration should be valid. You may not know but this certificate needs to be renewed every six months. Once it has expired, it can be purchased again via the Developer account.
The mobile and cell phone industry has seen a lot of innovation in just the last decade. It’s a far cry from a time when most people were merely content to make phone calls or a phone number check. Now we ascribe the term, “mobile device” to our phones in order to more accurately represent their myriad functions. Mobile devices and their constant evolution and pushed the boundaries of current technological capability and the industry is quickly coming a point where its reach will exceed the industry’s grasp. It’s for this reason that mobile apps and devices need to become increasingly Cloud friendly in order to offset the increased demands placed on them.
A study conducted recently by ABI Research discussed this very issue and found big problems with limited processing power, battery life, and data storage. These concerns will further limit application growth among much of the mass market if Cloud computing isn’t applied with greater strength. No smartphone is save, it seems, and even Apple’s iPhone has shown to perform at a deficit when factoring in these same concerns. It’s been shown that applications that are connected to cloud resources are far more likely to run successfully than if they were run solely from the mobile device alone.
Factoring in these issues, it’s likely that cloud-computing services will become a new market and will deliver annual revenues coming in the range of an annual 20 billion within the next five years. These are big numbers and it’s getting a lot of attention. It’s also thought that it could further drive innovation among cell phone development. Researchers and developers will no longer have to concern themselves with finding new ways to adapt a mobile devices’ processor to meet increased application demand. If this were the approach, people would likely have to have a separate device just to run their applications. However, cloud services offer developers a way to free up the processor and focus on other innovations.
Cloud computing software is likely to introduce an unprecedented sophistication to the world of mobile applications that has proven to be an industry all its own. Businesses are already benefiting from collaborations and data sharing through similar approaches. Users will be able to gain remote access to apps that could do anything from monitoring their home security to social networking. You’ll be able to do everything you already can, and more.
It’s not likely to be a touch decision for mobile device developers. It’s a win-win situation. This will create a new market for cloud services and free up companies to find better and more efficient ways to mobile their products. Every company, large and small, will likely be utilizing the power of such services, which will probably become a benchmark of the mobile community in a very short space of time.
Onlive have just announced that they have created an iPad app that supports their cloud based gaming service.
OnLive is pleased to announce the OnLive Player App for iPad and Android. Like the recently announced consoles, the OnLive Player App will enable gameplay of virtually all OnLive games on an iPad and Android tablet with touch or OnLive’s new Universal Wireless Controller.
Apple has just launched iOS 5, which will be released in the fall. Within the iOS 5 launch they ran through Twitter and how it will look on the iOS 5 update.
Here is a quick preview of what Twitter will look like on iOS 5.
Here is a great preview of Swayable. Swayable is taking side by side ratings to a new level. Currently, Swayable is available as an iPhone application with an Android application on the way.
I just came across Soundtracking from a Techcrunch Disrupt panel. Soundtracking is an iPhone application that allows anyone to geotag any music they are listening to.
For example: Im listening to Radiohead in Berlin at a gig. I can now grab my iPhone out of my pocket and open the Soundtracking application. Now I can share the fact that Im listening to Radiohead in Berlin with the world.
It has been reported that Apple will be using Google Maps again in iOS 5. There have been a lot of rumours that Apple would be developing their own mapping software, however it seems like this is not going to be the case.
Expect Apple to release their own mapping service in the coming years, mainly due to their purchases of Placebase and Poly9. Im very much looking forward to a traffic service and GPS offering by Apple, but for the time being we will be sticking to Google Maps.
Yesterday in New York, Google launched the new Google Wallet. Google Wallet is an application that will turn your mobile phone into your wallet.
On Google Wallet you will be able to store your credit cards, loyalty cards, gift cards and more. At launch Google Wallet will support Citi Mastercard and Google Prepaid Card.
According to PayPal’s lawsuit, read in full here, former PayPal executive (now working at Google) Osama Bedier stole PayPal’s trade secrets and shared it with Google and other companies. Another present Googler and former PayPal exec, Stephanie Tilenius, violated her contract when she recruited Bedier, PayPal said.
After the recent issues with the Playstation Network someone has actually make an iPhone application so you can tell if the Playstation Network is down or not.
Since the Playstation Network went back online this week, there has been a huge amount of new hacking attacks on the servers, thus Im sure this isnt going to be the last time we see it all go down.
The app is available for free in Apple’s App Store.
It seems like Fiat are trying to really add technology into their products and company. However, I think some of their ideas are a little bizzare.
Fiat recently launched Fiat Street Evo, which is an iPhone or Android app that recognises traffic sign and transforms them into features of the new Punto Evo.
The application works via a simple QR code system and then it relates that QR code into a sign and then a feature of the car.
We have embedded a video below to help better explain this app:
It has been reported that Apple will be using Google Maps again in iOS 5. There have been a lot of rumours that Apple would be developing their own mapping software, however it seems like this is not going to be the case.
