Bytesize Adventures

6 months, 5,000 lines of code, 13 blog posts, 15,000 words and both the App and my blog series are finally finished. When I started this I planned on following a carefully designed and documented process to translate my App store idea into an actual product. Along the way my aim was to share all of the steps with you, along with the results.

This post intends to wrap-up the series. It also contains the final blog post, my Coffee Cellar postmortem. Whereas the postmortem covers the App itself, this post reviews the process and acts as a convenient hub to bring together all of the previous posts in the series (for future reference). keep reading…

By Chris | Posted in: App Development, Design, Development Diary, iDevBlogADay | Tags: app design, app development, artwork, coffee cellar, development, distribution, ideas, iDevBlogADay, marketing, postmortem, project management, sales, testing, wireframes, workflow
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I’m currently in the process of testing my Coffee App and wanted to share the testing process with you. This is the first time I’ve done any significant public testing for one of my Apps. In the past I’ve just tested with a couple of close friends/family. With my Coffee App, I wanted to be sure that I could get a good mix of people who didn’t feel obliged to say nice things.

In this post I’m going to take you through the full process of Beta testing your App.

This post puts us back on track in my 8-step (9 if you count going to the pub) guide to App development success (or total failure – or more likely a shade in between). You can catch up on the previous posts in the series here.

1) App Development – Doing it properly
2) App Development – The Design Document
3) App Development – The Wireframes
4) App Development – The Artwork
5) App Development – The Code (Split into 3 development diary posts – Diary #1, Diary #2, Diary #3)
6) App Development – The Testing (You’re here)
7) App Development – The Final Art
8) App Development – The Marketing
9) Go to the Winchester and have a nice cold pint

keep reading…

By Chris | Posted in: App Development, Development Diary | Tags: App, beta, code signing, coffee app, provisioning profile, testflight, testing
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On Wednesday 11th November 2009 I attended the iPhone Tech Talk World Tour. Hosted by Apple in London’s Congress Centre, this is my review of the event.
keep reading…

By Chris | Posted in: News, Tangents | Tags: apple, audio, coffee, iphone tech talk, OpenGL ES, performance, static analysis, testing
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