Adding Facebook SDK to iOS Xcode 4 – Simply and Easily

Posted by banane on September 25th, 2011 — in iphone dev, technology

I was surprised at how easy it was to implement a “share story” in my iPhone app. I’ve used ShareKit before, and I actually found the Facebook SDK created by FB to be easier! Note- I’m doing something very simple, publishing a share story. (Yes, that’s the new timline view.) 1. First, download it. In [...]

In App Purchases – for Upgrading Free App

Posted by banane on September 24th, 2011 — in iphone dev, technology

Just finished implementing in-app purchases for Russian Bingo. I implemented a button in the last version, to determine how many of our users actually wanted more vocabulary levels. Well, it is hovering around 10% for Russian and 30% for Mandarin. Note though that Russian has a much larger sample set- at 2K – than Mandarin [...]

On Playing Chinese Bingo

Posted by banane on September 20th, 2011 — in iphone dev, language

I’ve been thinking of making this app ever since we started the Bingo franchise. This is perhaps the hardest language I’ve learned next to Russian, and was super excited to have a simple little game I can play casually. The other day I looked over my sister’s shoulder as she played with almost every Chinese [...]

A Year in the Trenches- Notes From a Developer on Her App’s 1 Year Anniversary

Posted by banane on September 10th, 2011 — in iphone dev, technology

I have been working in the same code base for a year now- the latest app is El Bingo if you want to check it out. In review, currently, I have Chinese Bingo and an upgrade to our first app, Le Bingueau (free until 9/16!). I’ve learned some very interesting things working and focusing on [...]