A tale of two cameras
I’m going to share some of the thinking and code behind the Picle iPhone app starting with the camera functionality. This will involve showing some code snippets and describing classes and frameworks found in the Apple iOS SDK.
At the heart of the the Picle app is the ability to use the iPhone camera and microphone in quick succession. The user experience of this functionality is critical to feel of the app so plenty of work has been done both before and after the initial release. Indeed the next release will have this completely reworked.
Anyone who has used iOS will be familiar with the way Apple uses animation in their apps. It's one of the most delightful features of the platform and users loved it, even before there was an App Store. If you use apps that don't employ judicious animation, you get a sense of something missing, of an undefinable lack of quality. 