My first iPhone app submitted!

I’ve just submitted my first iPhone apps to Apple Store. In my company we have scheduled next Saturday to do an iPhone app stunt, trying to get something out during twelve hours. But it’s a long time to next Saturday. It was too long for me at least…

So this Saturday morning I got an offer of 75% off the $199 price on www.AppMakr.com through http://startupTodo.com, which had managed to get this with a little help from Guy Kawasaki at http://blog.guykawasaki.com

AppMakr.com, as of now, seems best to create a news app showing different news feeds. I have a lot more feeds than I really can manage, and the possibility to have them joined inn an app was appalling.

I followed a guide in startupTodo.com showing the process. AppMakr also have its own wizard which are pretty easy to follow, at least if you have graphics and feeds in the right format – that’s it. But this was not what I had…

My nice graphics didn’t have the correct pixel formats. iPhone is very restrictive, and will have the graphics at an excact size. So I had to try, try, try and I finally got something that wasn’t too bad. The AppMakr wizard cropped my images a bit, but they are still nice. As a splash-screen I used a painting of my late cousin Annette Hide of Calendula Officinalis. It is a bit cropped on the side, but still pretty cute.

For the logo I used the ones created by Toni Tito in Summa Summarium SL and myself. They also had to be cropped. If I had access to a 24/7 designer they would helped me, but now I have to get some graphic software myself, and learn to crop and size.

The feeds were a lot of work to find. AppMakr doesn’t have the ability to search for feeds in a website, so you must be exact. www.iakttakelser.com and www.noexcuseaccounting.com feeds did I found deep in the bloggers menu-system. The feed to the company’s Facebook page was very difficult to get. Doing search in Google and tests in yahoo! Pipes, I settled of this http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?format=atom10&id=153623487303. At least it is working now. But Facebook is known to change feed addresses repeatedly…

After some work on Twitter I chose to use http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/70394454.rss. I also added two of my earlier blogs which should be given more attention.