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The UIAlertView class has a few methods that we don’t use a lot because Apple doesn’t want us to. These use the Private API’s that the iPhone has and developers can’t use. For developers, methods that are not in the SDK, but are still there, are known as “undocumented”. What we are going to be doing is using the setNumberOfRows: method which is indeed undocumented. I tried submitting Ball Dodge Lite with this so it can separate two buttons on the death alert, but rejected because of… you guessed.

I recommend not doing this if you submit to the App Store, but Cydia is OK, there is nothing that says “no undocumented methods allowed. Cydia is also just another way to send your app to the public if Apple rejects it. Understand? Let’s get started! continue…

As you probably know, I have a game called Ball Dodge in the App Store. Around a month ago I re-did the whole app from new features to the UI and is now getting more downloads than the previous version did a day.

I released version 3.0.1 a little while ago and there is a little fix I need to do to the status bar, but that’s not what I’m gonna be talking about, however that made me ask this. What would you do to improve Ball Dodge? I could really use your help here because I wanna increase download stats even more and maybe even get you guys a giveaway soon.

One way is leaving a positive review in iTunes. Don’t just make one up, say something you like about it. If something is wrong, just email me or PM me on YouTube. When there is a review that says something bad, that’ll make me feel bad about the app and second, people will see that and not download it. Point is, post a review if you actually like it, if it needs improvements or you just wanna screw with me, email me. I’d feel better about it in an email than on iTunes.

Second way is reviewing it on YouTube. YouTube is the biggest and best video sharing site ever (1 billion site hits a day). Those, I don’t care if you say it rocks or sucks. Videos help me even more because I feel I need to make an improvement really fast. Download Ball Dodge, play it, then review it. Simple.

The third and final way is showing friends and family. You can be a salesman for me! Can’t say much here besides to tell them to buy it or else you’ll throw their iPhone in the pool.

Adding one more thing, please donate. Donations really help, including just $.01. You donate $1 and you get a shout-out, $10 and you get my whole channel banner for a month, and $1 per week up to 4 weeks on blog right column. Even if you don’t donate, subscribe or follow me. As my audience gets bigger, I get more tutorials out. Each time my last video (tutorial) reaches 1,000 views, I upload a new tutorial within 2 days.

Hope I see more reviews and emails. Cya in the next post.

With there being a lot of ways to crack iPhone and iPod touch applications, somewhere along the way someone’s got to make an effective, easy-to-use, and cheap way of preventing piracy. There are services such as KaliAP that do charge a bit, but now a simple way of protecting the app is by using my new Piracy Notifier. Piracy Notifier is an easy to use anti-piracy system. With multiple ways to change the text that shows up when the app is cracked, alerts, no window interaction, log iDevice’s UDID on your site, etc., Piracy Notifier can come in handy.

Double-click to play/pause

Downloading: In order to use Piracy Notifier, you must first purchase it. Don’t worry it’s very cheap. For just $1 for life, you get many features with it. In order to purchase it, you have to have PayPal, $1, and an app that you pay for, unless your stupid enough to put it into a free app.

Integrating: With only one file to put into your app, and just a little bit of initializing code, your nearly done! You can view the video tutorial on integrating Piracy Notifier by heading here. If you think there is something else that can be added to Piracy Notifier, feel free to contact me at any time!

How: When the app is launched, a scanning method is activated and either reads from a previous scan, does a scan, or does not do a scan. It brings up the “Buy or Exit” interface if either the first thing or the second thing detected a crack, otherwise just do nothing because the person payed.

PURCHASE

If you think that you could add a bit of protection into your app then go ahead and purchase Piracy Notifier. Remember that this is only $1 and isn’t the most professional anti-piracy notifier in the world, but it will help you. So get your PayPal ready and send over $1 by clicking the Buy Now button and within 48 hours you should have Piracy Notifier. PLEASE DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE THE CODE. I WORKED HARD ON THIS FOR THE iPHONE DEVELOPING COMMUNITY.

Alrighty, I think I’m gonna

AppStoreMod:
Easy API to integrate and works great! Ever since I started to use it I never saw my apps on any crack sites again. I highly recommend it.

About a week ago I went to my good friend ClickedApps asking for good graphic design sites. He said DeviantArt is a good site, so I checked it out, knowing only a liitle of it. It was a great idea going to the site. I found great designers, and even made an account.

You can click here to visit my account. I’ll be posting some pictures about later on updates for my apps so you should check it out sometime. Cya guys later.

Ball Dodge is now at its 4th version. In 2.2.3, I included the ability to post your score to Twitter. Unfortunately, there was a bug for people not running 3.0. When trying to send the tweet, a function was being taken off the memory when it shouldn’t have, causing it to work only on 3.0. With that function gone, the score posting is now fully functional in 2.2.4. Now for people who believe that people type in the exact same script with a very high score, I am going to have a screen capture run and upload to an image site, then post that in the script.

Now, I have made 2.2.5 and 2.2.4 came out only yesterday! You can view the sneak peek below.

Source Code Available, Scroll Below Video

For the past 3 days I’ve been working on 2 apps, both are URL shorteners. Most of your have heard of TinyURL and Tr.im right? Well, they both currently do not have a mobile site. That’s where I came in. The apps use their API which sends one line of text, the shorter URL, to a webview. The label then exracts the text, the URL, from the web view using some Javascript. When the whole shortening process is complete, an alert view pops up with the labels text, the URL, and 3 buttons. Copy / View Link, Mail Link, and Exit and Lose Changes.

When you hit Copy / View Link, it opens Safari to the short URL and copies the shorter URL so next time you go to notes or something, just paste it. The Mail Link opens The MFMailComposeViewController which let’s you email within the app and sets the subject and body. After each URL shortened in the app, you must exit. That is why there is no dismiss or do another URL button. A demo of the Tr.im app is below.

Double click video to play, and double click to pause.

Would you like the source code to my Tr.im iPhone app? If you would like to, please donate at least $30 for my work. I give you the whole thing in the video above.

Every penny is appreciated, if you are generous enough to donate at least $30 you will get the exclusive source code.

A lot of people are subscibed to me on YouTube, and most of them have iPhones and iPod touches. Well, I’m gonna bring SimpleSDK to mobile! Yup, mobile. So why an app? I mean, YouTube mobile, Twitter mobile, my blog mobile, why an app? Well the app features all of them in it, includes some cool addons, and a bit more. Also, advertising will also be in the app. Since subscribers would be the ones who would have it, they would use the app to view if their mobile, why not put an ad on the first page? A nice 320×50 ad above the first tab. Well, I’m gonna go further, but yah. Can’t wait to see it? Check it below.

FYI: The “Home” tab is not done yet. More things will be added soon.

A lot of people have asked me if I could make them their own apps and I have said no. Well, I’m proud to announce that I’m starting to build apps for people! Basically, there are prices for each thing. I try and go easy on prices for you guys. So follow the rates below and maybe you’ll want me to make an app for you!

Rates:

Tab Bar App:

- $1 / Tab
- $1 / Tab Image (or use your own for free)
- $2 / Web View
- $4 per image (only if you want me to make images)
- $5 & up for advanced (i.e. searching a site)

I would consider that fair. If you would like to check out other sites rates, go ahead. Mine should be the cheapest.

So, do you like everything? If you do and would like to talk to me about it, shoot me an email at contact@simplesdk.com. Please do not P.M. me. I would like it strictly email only, then if we talk through it, we could talk through AIM. Well, Cya later!

Well there’s quite a bit of an update for Ball Dodge. In the last update, I added the ability to be able to see your time and compliments when you reach certain times. Definitely an update I would’ve done. Now, in the new version to be released within the month, I’m glad to say I’ve added high scores.

Thanks to @agononline! Their high score system beats any PHP or table view scores. AGON has local and global scores! You can create your own AGON profile which let’s you invite friends through email, AGON, or Facebook! A lot of work was put into the new version so make sure you download it in he App Store!

2 days ago I went to login to my email and noticed it wouldn’t let me login. After 5 minutes, I went to my main page and noticed an access forbidden page. I have never seen that page before and thought I was hacked. I logged in to my site worrying that I lost it for good. Looking at the top, there was a red bar and below saying 200 MB over limit. It took 2 days to get the 200 MB of unused things off the site. After the removal, I was now OK with 57 MB left.

Finally, I went to the site and still noticed that page. Now I thought the host removed due to going over the limit. I went back to the login page and saw that the suspended button was on. Obviously I hit “Unsuspend”. Now the site pages were visible and I could successfully login to my email.

Look at the image: http://bit.ly/10nAa9