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Not a bad week for UD7.
Somehow Apple approved 2 new apps at the same time - its LatteDate and Floonr.
If everything go as planned, this year 2 more apps should be released for Lithuanian market (we making, but for other company)

I'm developing new iPhone game for UD7 and was wondering what is most effective to way transfer data from WEB server to iPhone. PLIST, BPLIST, JSON or maybe GZIP'ing them?

So the results:
simple PLIST - 35051bytes
JSON - 13559bytes
binnary PLIST - 12612bytes
binnary PLIST gzip'ed - 8770bytes
simple PLIST gzip'ed - 5046bytes
JSON gzip'ed - 2346bytes

So the winner is: gzip encoded JSON

Its some time already i didn't wrote here, there was something more important todo :)
So shortly what happened in that time:

* quit job in EVP for second time
* iLabyrinth got some luck, was featured by Apple and etc
* ForumCinemas was #1 app in all 3 country it was targeted for.
* UD7 became a company and im a director/programmer of it :D

UD7 studios is proud to introduce a simple, but fun and addictive game - iLabyrinth. You will definitely spend some time finding a way out of various labyrinths.
All you have to do is carefully plan your route. You can see the whole map, but your possible directions are marked by the arrows on the ground. More often than not you will have a chance to choose where to go. But to make it more interesting sometimes the direction is predefined.
Slide your finger or just tap the screen to which side you want to go.
Good luck, and don't get lost.
check it out

Few months ago i was working at JSC Vertex and we made parking app for our biggest mobile service provider and official iPhone seller Omnitel.
You know those thingies that stands near street and you can pay by SMS or real money to leave your car? Well app had to eliminated all payment problems.
Omnitel told that it would be way too much trouble to get money from Apple (and in way they a right, and of course they dint wanted to give Apple 30%) and asked to come up with better solution than In App Purchase.
So because Omnitel is a mobile service provider and iPhone is a phone i thought that Omnitel could bill users directly. User have to make indication that he agree to be billed, but you can't send SMS using iPhone SDK API so solution was to call some service on Omnitel side through GPRS/EDGE/3G so they can detect users phone number and it would be like indication that user agrees to be billed. So, Omnitel bills user and bill comes with monthly mobile bill. Everything works like magic from users side :)

We made app and submitted to App Store.

And here our troubles began...

Because it was localized solution at first Apple rejected app because they could not check it properly. So we explained in details how it works and mailed (with real mail) them sticker for car and Omnitel SIM card. So all that took about 2 month i guess. Then app was rejected again because we not comply with agreement. Ah, nice explanation... Because we already had contacts with Apple we called them to ask what was that about and after long discussion it was said that app have to use In App Purchase either it has to be free. So no 3rd party billing...

Doh, i made app in few days and at this point we already wasted half a year on this project...

I won't discuss resolution and how app got to app store, but it wasn't what i'm proud of :). If you really interested write to me @ rolandas@ud7.lt

don't have iPad? Yesterday ported WitchEye to Facebook. http://apps.facebook.com/witcheye/

Yesterday Apple approved UD7 first iPad app/game - WitchEye Fortune. Try it out if you into all "magic" and "future telling" thing and have iPad.

Some promos:
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So Apple introduced iPhone OS4. Well its more then i expected, just wonder how many people they made mad. Social gaming? RIP OpenFeint and all others, iAd? I bet google hates them now :)

One more article about me and my (UD7) plans for Apple iPad

zebra.lt - "iPad" – naujas popierinės spaudos veidas
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lrytas.lt - "iPad" – naujas popierinės spaudos veidas
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15min.lt - "iPad" – naujas popierinės spaudos veidas