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by flyosity 15y ago
I generate about $1000/mo from an iPad app I wrote (that I haven't updated in a long, long time) and then between $5-10k from iPhone user interface design/development tutorials that I sell.
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by flyosity 15y ago
There's surprisingly few pointers here related to actual graphics programming, that is, the math that's involved, physics you need to know, color programming fundamentals (gamma, colorspaces, etc.), hardware support and GPU programming, etc
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by flyosity 15y ago
HN views seem to be slanted on this subject. It's not "hedging" or "being cautious" as much as it is just being smart. Working on a business in your spare time till it makes more money than your full-time job is what most people who have bi
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by flyosity 15y ago
A large issue of the revenue difference is that you can return apps for up to 24 hours on Android but you can't return an iPhone app. Because of this, friends of mine who use Android phones will routinely download an app to use for a specif
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by flyosity 15y ago
Perhaps, but, the downside, is that free Android apps that make no money don't really pay your bills. Doing apps on the side is one thing, quitting your job and working on Android apps full-time is quite another. I don't see many posts abou
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by flyosity 15y ago
As an iPhone developer, I just don't really care anymore about the size of one app store versus another. It's all about which store you can make real money from. Apple has paid out over $2 billion to developers (data from March 2011) and wh
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by flyosity 15y ago
There's a gigantic difference in sales potential when you choose to make an iPad game (like the author did) and an iPhone game. The iPhone & iPod touch market is way, WAY bigger and has a much larger financial upside. If you want to mak
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by flyosity 15y ago
You do realize that by doing this technique you're not physically taking money out of airline pilots' wallets, right? Airlines already screw over pilots (WSJ says average starting salary for a commercial airline pilot is ~$30k) so I don't t
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by flyosity 15y ago
Yup, there's not a distinct correlation between buying early and getting the best price. Sometimes the best price doesn't show up until a week before the departure. Sometimes the best price is attained when purchasing months prior to depart
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by flyosity 15y ago
I'd definitely suggest not caring about where your UI designer is located. It's hard enough to find decent UI people without forcing them to live in Western NY. Some of the best UI people I know live in Europe, Mexico, New Zealand, etc. If
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by flyosity 15y ago
I'd highly suggest paying a professional user interface designer to take a look at every screen of your app and offer suggestions and/or redesigned mockups. It looks like you're using nearly all stock UIKit widgets (default buttons, default
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by flyosity 15y ago
This is the testament to the reach of the App Store. Your app is targeting an incredibly small, niche market, and you're still selling hundreds of copies.
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by flyosity 15y ago
As an iOS developer, I can't stress how important this metric is. I don't care if Android gets 70%, 80%, 95% marketshare if the App Store is generating way, WAY more money for developers.
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by flyosity 15y ago
I heard a few people at the next table talking at a restaurant about the new Thunderbolt. Try said it's "a droid" and it was a solid phone because Microsoft built it. I won't comment on if the percentage is valid or not, but a LOT of normal
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by flyosity 15y ago
It's only dangerous if you forget to call super's drawRect. Call that at the top of your function (to get the default graphics that UINavigationBar draws, and whatever else Apple does in there, probably nothing) and then do your own drawing
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by flyosity 15y ago
Overriding drawRect to do your own drawing is probably the most common thing that iOS developers do when working on custom interfaces. I'm not sure why you think it's dangerous, it's a public API call. I think almost every app developer I k
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by flyosity 15y ago
Besides your point, the only other downside is that the red line is in the navigation bar, not directly below it. If it's a pixel or two tall it's probably fine but if it's 4+ pixels tall it'd probably make the vertical spacing of element
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by flyosity 15y ago
Couldn't you just draw the red line in drawRect of a UINavigationBar category? Then it'd appear in every navigation bar of your app, in the UINavigationBar, and not lost in some other hierarchy anywhere else.
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by flyosity 15y ago
I'm surprised he wrote something like this. This seems like the most obvious business information you can write beyond revenue - expenses = profits.
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by flyosity 16y ago
Or you could take a less risky route: work on it at night and on the weekends until you start making enough money to quit your job. That's what I did.
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by flyosity 16y ago
And the well-researched statistics on Android users being less likely to purchase apps.
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by flyosity 16y ago
For normal people there's already a tool that does that: Facebook.com. Facebook is the Internet for a huge % of Internet users. I don't even think there is a pain-point.
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by flyosity 16y ago
"They made Chrome from scratch" They're using the WebKit rendering engine. While Chrome is a great browser, I'd hardly say it was "made from scratch".
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by flyosity 16y ago
I think it's the standard that is set by the original creator of the UI widgets available on the platform, in this case, Apple vs. Google. I'm an iPhone UI designer/developer and you can make a really nice looking app without doing any cust
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by flyosity 16y ago
Here's another great game physics reference by Glenn Fiedler. It's a must-read for beginner (and not-so-beginner) game programmers and has helped me immensely. http://www.gafferongames.com/game-physics/
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by flyosity 16y ago
He meant as a duplicate of the earthquake that already devastated Japan. He wished he could downvote it as a duplicate, that is, that it hadn't happened again.
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by flyosity 16y ago
Could easily import excanvas.js to have it work in IE without an issue.
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Ideas are just a multiplier of execution(sivers.org)
7 points by flyosity 16y ago|0 comments
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How Color Already Blew It(flyosity.com)
5 points by flyosity 16y ago|1 comments
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by flyosity 16y ago
Same happened here. It's totally blank until more people around you actually have & use the app. Which no one will do because... it's blank unless other people use it. Classic chicken or the egg problem. I guess $41 million doesn't buy

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