The topic itself was chosen by the student chapter as a general introduction on the different aspects of working with remote web service APIs on the iOS platform.

You can go to Speaker Deck for extra options, or you can browse through the presentation below:

You can go to Speaker Deck for extra options, or you can browse through the presentation below:

HAR got in touch with us to build a new iOS application to serve Houston citizens. The idea came from a partnership with the city of Houston, and the goal was to build an app that would provide localized information about community events, points of interest and government topics. The Houston Living application is geared towards citizens that want to know what is happening in their neighborhoods.

After several months of work the application is now available on the iTunes App Store, as an universal application for iPhone/iPad.

Update: Houston Mayor Annise Parker held a press conference about the release of the app on October 3rd, and there was some local news coverage as well:

1. Mayor press conference video on YouTube.
2. Houston Chronicle coverage about the new iOS application.

Here are some screenshots of this application (I especially like the rotating animation on the iPad version):

That iOS application is called YES Parking, and the idea was to build a map based app that would help drivers find parking locations within Houston. We built the iOS app to plot parking meters, valet parking zones, special events together with their availability and rate information. We wanted to display parking citation and crime incident data as well, but we ran out of time.

It was tough building something quickly over the 6-7 hours of time that were available, while still wrangling the data formats that were provided as part of the Houston Open Data initiative. I wish there was a public web API of some sort that we could use to get access to this data in a programatic way.

In any case, at the end of the hackathon a working prototype of the YES Parking app was ready for demonstration. Hopefully I can do some polish work on the app and actually release it on the iTunes App Store in the near future.

We were contacted by the client to build a lifestyle iPhone application to help users share their unique style and see what others are wearing at different places or social situations. The project involved creating a comprehensive set of wireframes of the application, and iterating over different use cases to make sure the app provided the best user experience.

This was a fun project to work on, involving everything from the initial iOS app wireframes, all the way to the backend web service API, to the user experience and interaction within the app.

What We Wear Where is available for free on the iTunes App Store.

Here are some screenshots of the app:

There’s ILAddressInfoLookup for that purpose, which uses a different API call to fetch the GPS coordinate. Usage is very similar in both cases, with a couple of delegate methods that need to be implemented to receive the details.

Read more at the github project page.

You can go to the slideshare page for extra options, or you can browse through the presentation below:

The HAR iPad application has been approved by Apple’s review team, and it’s now available at the App Store. Several months of development went into this, so we are happy to see it finally be available to the public.

We will do a presentation about AFNetworking at the next Houston iPhone Developer meetup happening on October 25th. Ben Scheirman from ChaiONE will be kindly hosting us there this time.

If you are interested in joining us, you can RSVP at the event page. I hope to see everyone from the Houston iPhone dev community there!