KosherJava » iPhone http://www.kosherjava.com A weblog about Kosher Coffee (Kosher Java), Zmanim and other odds & ends Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:55:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 3 Native iPhone Zmanim Applications in the App Store http://www.kosherjava.com/2008/09/21/3-native-iphone-zmanim-applications-in-the-app-store/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3-native-iphone-zmanim-applications-in-the-app-store http://www.kosherjava.com/2008/09/21/3-native-iphone-zmanim-applications-in-the-app-store/#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:08:19 +0000 KosherJava http://www.kosherjava.com/2008/09/21/3-native-iphone-zmanim-applications-in-the-app-store/ There are now 3 native iPhone programs in the iPhone App Store that display Zmanim. Pocket Luach from Tebeka Software, Zmanim from Avi Shevin and the iPhone Siddur from Rusty Brick. It is interesting to note that 2 out of the 3 use an open source Zmanim library. Zmanim uses Ken Bloom’s zmanim code (the optional ZmanimCalculator module in our Zmanim API uses a Java port of this code), and the iPhone Siddur uses a port of our own KosherJava Zmanim API (as mentioned in an email from the developer). With all of these available (and I am sure there are more to come), I am abandoning the iZmanim project to build a zmanim UI for the iPhone, since there is little need for it. My effort will concentrate on enhancing the API itself. I hope to be able to release the Rusty Brick Objective-C port of the API in the near future.

]]> http://www.kosherjava.com/2008/09/21/3-native-iphone-zmanim-applications-in-the-app-store/feed/ 4 iZmanim – An Alpha Release of Zmanim for the iPhone http://www.kosherjava.com/2008/07/17/izmanim-an-alpha-release-of-zmanim-for-the-iphone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=izmanim-an-alpha-release-of-zmanim-for-the-iphone http://www.kosherjava.com/2008/07/17/izmanim-an-alpha-release-of-zmanim-for-the-iphone/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:14:55 +0000 KosherJava http://www.kosherjava.com/2008/07/17/izmanim-an-alpha-release-of-zmanim-for-the-iphone/ iZmanim screenshotThe release of the iPhone 3G got me thinking about zmanim on the iPhone. While I would eventually like to create a free native iPhone zmanim app, for now I created a simple iPhone web app to test out the UI. While only of alpha quality, the iZmanim web app should properly work on an iPhone (tested in Safari on Windows and iPhone emulators). These is a settings page that persists changes made. The iZmanim web app was built using the iUI framework. iZmanim can be tested with any Webkit browser. For the full effect, try it using the iPhone Tester on Safari. Please note that it will not properly load in IE or Firefox.

If any Cocoa/Objective C/iPhone developers would like to give a hand in developing the native iZmanim, please contact me.

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