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Thank you so much! That's it!!

I'm working on a pebble app- May use this to distribute it until a non crappy pebble store comes out!

I agree, this looks really cool! These are the kinds of articles I really like seeing on here, but I feel like people may be discouraged to post these types of things because the top comments are always "Well this sucks because I use X" or "This will never work because Y", or "Didn't Z already do this!?"

Lots of people here are making really cool stuff, and I love hearing about it! Keep it up!

You can test easily! [array isKindOfClass:[NSMutableArray class]] or [array respondsToSelector:@selector(insertObject:)]

Good memories! I learned to program making silly games on a crappy computer in QBasic :)

I thought this was going to be an App for setting up / planning Group Dates, and I thought that was a really cool idea! :)

Same experience here! Got started with Qbasic games -> web dev -> iOS

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I wanted to say this must be an April Fool's thing, but looking at the past price points http://appshopper.com/games/the-fleas-2

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like because iOS is such a hot platform right now everyone is trying to hop on the bandwagon without learning anything new. Write iOS apps in ObjC. It's not hard, it's not that different, it's just something you don't know yet.

Really fun game, and it looks great! Awesome job!

That sounds awesome! Looking forward to it

This is really cool- I'd love to see a lot of different templates to choose from!

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This doesn't make any sense at all. iMessage is now tied to my iPhone, my iPad, an iPod Touch, two iMacs, and a Macbook Air. If my iPhone's battery dies, how will Apple know that I'm not in front of another device capable of getting messages?

"One potential reason that Apple wouldn’t implement this feature is that it increases user awareness of dead iPhone batteries" I don't even

I wish there were more posts on HN like this. This is super cool, interesting, and a neat simple solution to a problem, even if it didn't work in the end!

We kind of have a different problem. Clients all want it in the apps we make, but analytics show that very few users use those features. Which sucks because it takes forever to implement all that stuff -_-

I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and was able to use my reservation code after I remember I had it. So was my friend! The button to use the code is kind of hard to see

And even then, I bet they're using https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/oauth_overvi... which means you could revoke the oauth token at any time from your Google account!

If they didn't have push access and servers, how would they let you know when you had new mail? Third party iOS apps can't poll for new mail, so remote notifications are the only way!

I'm looking forward to giving this a go at work tomorrow!

I'm so tired of all the IB hate. IB is a tool, and it should be used when appropriate. Sure you can't do everything in it, but for 80% of even "complex" views, things can be done significantly faster in IB. Doing all UI creation and layout isn't faster and more "hardcore", it's ignoring a tool that has been around longer than OS X and iOS that was literally made for the job! Have fun maintaining that mess of UI layout code!

100% agree. IB makes for faster development time, easier maintenance, and it's way better for auto layout if you're targeting iOS 6.0

http://reviewtimes.shinydevelopment.com Looking like 6 days at the moment!

I actually don't really like where Google has been going with their iOS apps. They don't look bad, but they don't look / feel like iOS apps. Microsoft and Google both like to try and bring the look and feel of their mobile OS's to their iOS apps, and I wish they would just make iOS apps that look like iOS apps.

This is really interesting- A friend of mine and I have just submitted an app to Apple last friday which allows you to view your twitter streams / twitter searches / etc but only shows tweets with photos. It's looking at the links in the tweets for media, and not the media entities themselves, so it looks like our app will still function correctly (just now tested)! We started making this app before the api 1.1 debacle so I'm interested to see how it'll play out.

I wish Apple would publish a list of common misconceptions including things like this. I see lots of code where tons of UI drawing is being done that could (and should) be done with images because it's "hardcore" and "fast". But no- it's over complicated and slow!

Well thanks! I was happy with how that turned out! I actually have some cool new features / bug fixes in the works on that project!