iPhone Dev Camp Paris #1 : Hello iPhoneWorld !
A month ago (sat. 22nd of nov.) I attended the very first (but third attempt of) iPhone Dev Camp Paris at La Cantine, which was a great opportunity to meet the french iPhone dev community. Yes, a month ago, it was high time that I write and publish this blog entry !
I attended mainly the (newbie) introduction sessions kindly animated by Cyril Godefroy, as well as a “publishing on the App Store” feedback session.
The whole day turned out to be very interesting, with a few tips & tricks learned and a lot of information gleaned throuhgout the day. Here are a few links to start with :
- Fidug.org : standing for French iPhone Dev User Group and led by Cyril Godefroy who began to gather a few ressources;
- Big Nerd Ranch : THE training camp for tough nut devs (OS X and Unix);
- Standford Courses : Stanford makes available its courses about “iPhone Application Programming”, starting with the basis : Objective-C;
- Erica Sadun : an active iPhone dev blog;
- SqLitePersistentObjects : an open source project to manage data objects easily.
And a few tips I gathered :
- WebView is handy when you want to display formatted text, or when you want a touchable mail address that links to Mail (just use a tiny WebView with a mailto).
- Don’t call your app “beta”, it won’t be published. It’s just a naive way for Apple to filter slapdash apps. Guess a few ex-web 2.0 / now iPhone 2.0 have been had by there old habits…
- An app working perfectly on the Xcode iPhone emulator can crash or may not work on a real device, so you should test it on a real iPhone too.
- You can’t require people to pay for an upgrade, hence all those “lite” apps you see to promote a more complete version that you have to pay. That would have been a way to manage monthly subscriptions.


