tACKY - The Animals Can Kill You Music blog RSS App is now available!

General (non-technical) New Apps / Works in Progress
#1

Showcase Link: http://developer.anscamobile.com/showcase/tacky-animals-can-kill-you-music-blog-rss-app

iTunes Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-animals-can-kill-you/id455118802?ls=1&mt=8

Cost: FREE!

the Animals Can Kill You
This Corona SDK based app takes advantage of the new widget APIs for tableViews and the navigation bar. It borrows on community code to implement a tabBar controller and manage the XML feed for the RSS feed as well as our recently contributed RSS reader code.

It also includes InMobi ads, though we are still waiting on them to approve the app. NOTE: I really don’t like the chicken/egg problem where we have to have the app live before ads get turned on. The app uses several other Corona SDK features like checking for network availability.

The source code for this has been contributed back to the community, and is available on Github: https://github.com/robmiracle/rss.lua.

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#2

Hey
There are no graphics provided in the sample code project so it’s a bit hard to get it to work at once without gessing a lot of graphics. There are no possible way for you guys to publish some guideline to all the graphics used in this project?

Thanks anyway for a great work on this app. [import]uid: 22737 topic_id: 14221 reply_id: 53907[/import]

#3

There were four graphics used:

a background graphic. Optional, you can simply comment out the code that loads the background image.

an icon. 32x32 used by the tableViewController. Its also optional and you can remove the icon code. These are the two graphics I used to brand the site, and as such I have no intention on sharing them. I guess I could make some place holder graphics.

I replaced the default gradient for the navBarcontroller since the parameter to pass in the gradient doesn’t work. If you’re happy with the blue bar, then you don’t need to.

The last graphic is the back button. I originally tried to use the widget button but you can’t change its color or use the pointy shaped back button, so I scored a copy from somewhere and used it. I’ll add that to the project. But it will likely be tonight before I can get to it.
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#4

This looks great except I’m having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around how you use it.
Could you post a little bit of a primer on what main.lua would look like? As always, thanks robmiracle! [import]uid: 10763 topic_id: 14221 reply_id: 65308[/import]

#5

Check out: http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/rss-parser

However, with one of the recent daily builds, I doubt this will build any more. TableViews have drastically changed since this was built. The tabBar Controller is now built into the widget library and works a bit differently than the tabBar view controller used in the app.

But it should give you an overview of what’s going on.

I’ve got to get some paying apps out the door, but I plan to come back to this and convert it to the new way of doing things as well as see if I can get it submitted as a newsstand app.

Rob [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 14221 reply_id: 65315[/import]

#6

Cool App Rob!! [import]uid: 51459 topic_id: 14221 reply_id: 65316[/import]