After 11 days of waiting, my first ever App hits iTunes. Regular readers of my posts (there are some, really) will have noticed what it was all about after seeing my Push on the iPhone post which covered doing Apple Push Notifications using Django on the server side. I did get around to pushing up a nice page on github to cover it and you can find that over at the django-iphone-push page.
The app is called “Tube Status Push Notifications” and it is… available in the App Store for the small price of 59p. It would have been free, but paying for the server infrastructure that runs it means that I have to recoup at least some of the costs. You can find out more about the app over on the Tube Notify page.
During the approval process I was a bit put off by the fact that Tube Deluxe managed to get push notifications out the door first. I wrote this app while push notifications were quite new. I also did it as a learning exercise writing an application I wanted. When Tube Deluxe 4.0 came out, I did give it a go. It has some things better, some things worse. Here, however, is the main thing – Tube Notify takes < 10 seconds to load up, even on GPRS (the little round dot at the top). I built the app for speed on loading, no one wants to wait to read information.
So, in short, a different application that serves a different purpose. I didn’t write it to make a lot of money, I wrote it to learn the iPhone SDK and for myself. I then gave it to others to test for a few weeks and then here we are! I hope others enjoy using it in the field as much as I do!
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