KDBDallas

A while back I wrote another iPhone application that was mainly for myself, but the business side of me said, “If I wanted this app enough to write it, chance are there are people willing to pay a couple bucks for it.”

The down side of this was that I had to develop the application a lot more.
Instead of just having to be “enough” for me, it had to be complete enough to sell and for people to be able to easily use.

So I finished up making it great.
It was done and it was SEXY!

The problem…
The sexy part was the part that connects to your computer, and that part was Mac only.

I did not like the fact that it was Mac only because I knew it would really hurt sells.
So I bit my lip and went about redoing that entire section.
I wanted something that would feel familiar with but that was at least just homely looking instead of looking like a nasty skank.
The problem was that the way to do this was a pretty big undertaking as there was nothing standard for the iPhone and the doing a one-off is a huge task (hence why there is nothing out there).

Finally I found another developer who was in the final status of doing a one-off himself, and he agreed to let me have access to the code.

SWEET! Here was my answer, right? right?

So I went and integrated the code.
Problem was that the code was not complete, but that was alright because I still had a bunch of little things to finish up and I was under the impression that the other code would be finished shortly.

So I finished everything up, but still no updates on the other code…
CRAP!

So I started looking into the code to see if I could find where the problems were, but like I said before, this is a BIG undertaking of code and I had no insight of the under workings of that section.

However now all my code was done, so I needed this last part done.

Off and on I would spend a day or two digging into the code, and hitting up the developer for any word on updates.

Now 2 months after I finished my end, I was still in basically the same spot and still no word on anything anytime soon.

Finally last night I said, “screw this”, and I decided to go with the Skanky version for now, knowing that I could always go back if/when the other code gets finished, but just sitting here was doing no one any good.

Earlier today I finished the coding aspect of the new setup.
Then I just had to do a screencast help video and do all the paper work type stuff on the App Store.

Then it was off to the races!
Application SUBMITTED!

Now it’s just time to hope that it gets through the Apple review process, and quickly.

Oh and to be honest, this new way probably isn’t really Skanky, but it just kind of feels that way to me after my original design.