Building iPhone Apps

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You might know my friend Dave as one of the guys behind Bob’s Picklepops, but I know him as the old buddy who just can’t stop talking about his brand-new iPad. He’s sifting through the net for good tools to get the Picklepop e-book into the app store quickly and cheaply as both an iPhone app and an iPad app, and he pointed me to these two tools:

Interface is a very, very nice $9.99 mockup and prototyping tool for iPhone that runs on your iPhone. Check out the five-minute video that shows just how much you can do in five minutes with one hand, so to speak.

Yapper gives you a way to turn RSS feeds into not just App store-ready iPhone applications, but Android, Blackberry and iPad apps too. Write no code! WYSIWYG! The app is $99 but the customization options are pretty impressive. You can run an RSS feed from your site through their demo in just a few minutes and see just exactly what you’ll get.

C++ Framework

Popular C++ frameworks include Platinum, Reason, Evocosm, ACF and many others, and now there is Cinder, a free, community developed offering from The Barbarian Group. It’s cross-platform, including iPhone/iPad, and was designed with audio, graphics, video, image processing, computational geometry and networking in mind. I always enjoy posting pointers to new tools that are developed by a devoted community and that cost nothing to use;  I don’t know how much in need of another C++ framework the world is but again having more choice if you’re a C++ developer cannot be a bad thing. I’d love hearing feedback from readers in the comments regarding Cinder.