Arash Payan

Jabeh

Introducing APTokenField

Working on Line2, I wanted to emulate the message composition screen Apple uses in iMessage and in the MFMailComposeViewController class. Specifically, I wanted to emulate the ‘To:’ field so I could use it in the SMS message composition screen in Line2. At the time, the only option that met the need was TTPickerTextField (part of Three20). I finally bit the bullet and integrated it…

Presenting, Appirater

Like most developers, I’m not thrilled with the way the App Store presents my apps. There are several problems, but in particular, I really don’t like the user review system. It’s biased towards bad reviews, and that ends up hurting sales (there are odd exceptions to this). The only time a user is reminded or asked to rate an app is when you delete it, and you probably…

t-zones is even easier to setup now

After restoring a family member’s iPhone that was acting up, I began setting up t-zones for them, but couldn’t find the t-zones hack in the BigBoss repository. After some experimenting, I soon realized that none of the proxy configuration work is required anymore either. Setting up t-zones on your iPhone is now an easy 3 step process: Go to Settings->General->Network->Cellular Data…

The price of Jabeh

I’ve received a few emails about the price of Jabeh on the app store, so here’s my reply to all of them. :-) I understand that Jabeh is more expensive than the alternatives out there, but I think the quality of the app and the puzzles more than make up for the difference. The quality of the programming, music and graphics speak for themselves, so I’ll leave that be. With respect…

Jabeh: Puzzle Game for iPhone and iPod Touch

The project that I’ve been working on for the past couple months has finally come to fruition, and is available for purchase on the iTunes App Store. Jabeh is a puzzle game where you search for 12 hidden stones on a board. Arrows on the board point in the direction of one or more stones, and the column and row numbers show how many stones are in the respective column and row.

On App Store Download Statistics

It seems that nobody wants to release statistics about how their apps are doing on the iTunes App Store, yet a lot of people want to know how well various apps are doing. I’ve seen a couple of examples of income and download numbers, but I’d still like to see more. So, I’m putting my money where my mouth is and publishing the download statistics for my first app, Prayer Book.

APXML: NSXMLDocument 'substitute' for iPhone/iPod Touch

After spending some time working on Jabeh, my latest creation for iPhone/iPod Touch, I’m taking some time to dump a little learned knowledge into my blog. In my first app, my XML needs weren’t that great, so putting up with the lack of NSXMLDocument in the iPhone SDK was not a big deal. However, in Jabeh I was changing the XML format so often and using so much of it for my network…

Prayer Book for iPhone and iPod Touch

My first iPhone app has just been posted to the iTunes app store. It’s called Prayer Book and it contains 231 English prayers from the Writings of the Bahá’í Faith. They’re organized by categories and you can bookmark your favorite prayers for easy access as well. I’ll be updating the program over time with new features and prayer translations, and eventually I’d like…

T-Zones on iPhone 2.0

If you’re trying to get T-Zones working on the iPhone 2.0 software, you don’t need to follow the old manual way of doing it. Just go into Cydia and search for TZones Hack and install the BigBoss tweak that comes up. Restart your phone, and you’re good to go. As usual, the YouTube app still won’t work with this hack.

FileTree update (v1.1)

I recently received an email from Ryan McFall that he is using FileTree, and he noticed that the FileTree doesn’t actually display everything accurately on Windows. The shortcoming was in the fact that Windows explorer displays all directories first before displaying files in a tree. He fixed the problem, and kindly sent the changes back to me for posting on the website GitHub. I hope this…

t-zones on 1.1.4

I finally upgraded my iPhone from 1.1.1 to 1.1.4, and after dealing with the Installer.app main script execution failed error (solution here), I began to setup my EDGE access. The steps are mostly the same as before, with the exception of the location of the preferences.plist file. Previously, it was located in the user partition, but now the file is located in:…

FileTree version 1.0

I was coding at work, and I needed a tree view of the file system so user’s could select a directory in a utlitiy I was writing. There’s nothing in the Java libraries that does that (as of JDK 1.6), so I figured this would be a cool little swing object to develop and make available for others. I finished it about a month ago, but I didn’t have time to thoroughly document it and…

t-zones (a.k.a. $5.99 Internet access) on the iPhone

UPDATE 3 (May 12, 2009): This tutorial and the two update links below it are outdated. Instead, setting up T-zones is now a super easy 30 second process. UPDATE 2 (July 26, 2008): There is a much easier way to set up T-Zones now. UPDATE: After going through my logs I’ve noticed that there are a lot of Windows users checking out this guide. So I’ve added a step 0 new step 1 to help them…