Mobile Orchard has a great tutorial on how to distribute iPhone apps to other developers without jumping through the ad-hoc hoops. I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s good to know.

http://www.mobileorchard.com/developer-to-developer-iphone-app-distribution-without-ad-hoc-provisioning/

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.*

* Delivery through the App Store requires participation in the iPhone Developer Program and approval of the application by Apple.

This is going to be fun to watch. The iPhone is already a massive gaming platform - what will happen when you mix the App Store and Newgrounds?

Even more interesting to watch will be Apple’s reaction. They haven’t exactly gone out of their way to bring Flash to the iPhone - which this doesn’t do, exactly, but it’s a step in that direction. I can’t see Apple being very happy, but they can’t openly oppose it without taking a big PR hit - I expect to hear a lot of CS5 app rejection stories, though.

As always, some good discussion on HN.

I ran into a very simple problem, but a quick Google search didn’t reveal any simple (or even functional) solutions.

Simply put, trying to use a date picker or picker control inside a scroll view leads to problems: trying to scroll the picker ends up scrolling the scroll view itself.

The solution is very simple: set the UIScrollView’s “canCancelContentTouches” property to NO.

Like a lot of Apple’s documentation, this part makes sense once you already know what it means…

If the value of this property is YES and a view in the content has begun tracking a finger touching it, and if the user drags the finger enough to initiate a scroll, the view receives a touchesCancelled:withEvent: message and the scroll view handles the touch as a scroll. If the value of this property is NO, the scroll view does not scroll regardless of finger movement once the content view starts tracking.

(from the docs).

I actually understood it a lot faster by just reading the comments in UIScrollView.h.

(tested in 3.0, haven’t tried 2.2.1 yet)

At least in Canada. #1 in free music apps, #9 in overall top free apps, #17 paid music apps. In the US, #6 free music app and #16 paid. Is this thing unstoppable?

I just talked to the LyricFind guys, and after only two days in the app store, it looks like the LyricFind apps are doing great!

The free version is already at #9 in the Music category, with great reviews so far. The paid version is no slouch either, currently sitting around #54.

It’s a great app, and I’m not just saying that because it was the first iPhone app I made It’s simple, easy to use, it does one job, and it does it well: finding lyrics for over one million songs. Works on both iPhone and iPod Touch.

Check out LyricFind Lite (link goes to iTunes), or the ad-free version.

Edit: #4 in Canada, #9 in the US, and still climbing! I couldn’t be happier with this!