Last week, we talked about frameworks in relation to developing for the iPhone. With iPhone OS 3.0, Apple has updated and added many frameworks, as well as other interesting tidbits for iPhone developers. For instance, push notifications will now be included into the operating systems and will allow developers to send updates to users without their app being in the foreground. From a developer standpoint, this creates a lot more functionality for an app. Furthermore…

This week I am going to talk about what it is like after you get your apps out there and into the world. This is truly where the real fun begins. First, there is the initial excitement of people out there enjoying something you have spent many hours on. It is great to see something you put your heart into during its development actually make it out into the real world. Then, you realize that although it can feel great, your job isn’t done.

This week I will be discussing some resources where you can find information if you want to get started or need help with developing for the iPhone. There are many places that can be found for this type of thing, and Apple provides developers with a plentiful amount of resources such as guides and what not. However, some are better than others.

This week I wanted to talk about some of the Twitter and Facebook APIs available for the iPhone SDK. API stands for application programming interface, and it allows developers outside of the company to access certain functions and data that Twitter and Facebook make available. For example, developers can access Twitter tweets through an API, but they don’t have direct access to them. In other words, their access is limited, in a way. However, the guys at both Twitter and Facebook have created some great APIs to help get started with developing applications for their web apps on the iPhone.