McCarron's Piece O' Mind

Ever since Apple unveiled the new iPhone, the number one question us fans who also are software developers have been asking is when are we getting a Software Development Kit (SDK)?

It was revealed that the only way to develop applications for the iPhone would be via "Web 2.0" applications using technologies such as AJAX. So I developed an application launcher/community forum called iPhone Fan Club. On this website I also hosted an old AJAX proof of concept game I ported to work better with the iPhone, we called it iPhone Blackjack.

But now in the past month some people, with more time than I, have backwards engineered a working toolchain/SDK for the iPhone. So excited by this news I started to look into developing for the platform myself. I decided to start by porting my PHP/AJAX powered Blackjack game to ObjectiveC/UIKit for the iPhone.

Here is a sneak peek of my progress, so far I'm implemented animation, touch/tap controls and the deck/shuffling system. My next step is to add the game logic into the game and to do some overall code cleanup.

Labels: iphone