Chuck Freedman

A lot of numbers, reports and success stories have been coming out about Apple’s growth and recent dominance in the mobile game space. They’ve been stealing some serious market share from mobile game powerhouses Nintendo and Sony. Since Apple owns the products and processes for playing and distributing the games, I understand why the big [...]

At some point along my iPhone learning curve, I had to recall some basic principles of object oriented programming — like calling a method from one class to another to pass data. For some reason, using MVC, I was trying to store data objects centrally, assuming all classes would have access to that data. This [...]

I don’t know where the Fireworks team at Adobe ranks. Given the obvious rabid developer fanfare over Flash, Flex and AIR, the longtime reign of Photoshop and Premiere, and ever hot ColdFusion and LiveCycle, you got to wonder where Fireworks lives in Adobe’s heart. I mean, if they were to do an award show, how [...]

I was surprised to find out how few samples there were for adding and manipulating images in an iPhone app. Rotating an image seemed to be tricky to figure out, but the code for adding and rotating an image is very simple. The code below shows how to: – Create a UIImage with an image [...]

While developing my first iPhone game App, I’m finding Interface Builder very easy to use. However, in my coding, I had the need to add a UILabel programatically. Similar to other languages/platforms I’ve worked with, handling font size, color and weight can be a little confusing. The code below shows how to: – Create new [...]

I am an Apple hold out no longer. After decades of resisting and even withstanding years of adoption peer pressure working/living in neighboring towns of Cupertino, I have jumped on the bandwagon. I bought my wife a gen2 iPod Touch, paid $99 to test apps, downloaded/installed the SDK, started playing with examples and have begun [...]