Today we (Roman and me) started our bachelor thesis. We had a first meeting with our advising professor, scheduled one with our external customer and already had some problems.
The thesis comprehends the development of a mobile payment application for the iPhone. With this application a customer should be able to pay parking lots from he’s iPhone as easy as possible. Our external customer called ePark24 has already a payment system. That system is a bit circumstantially. So our goal is to take the existing services and put them behind an iPhone application and expand it with some nice, useful and handy features.
Now that service is based on some 0900 numbers. You call them and then you enter your parking location and your license plate – or lot number. To do that automatically we need to dial so called DTMF codes. But that isn’t possible. Simple: Apple forbids to do that!.
The first version of that iPhone App should be available in the iPhone App Store by mid May 2009. I will try to keep you up to date about my thesis and that app on this blog. ePark24 announced our iPhone App already in their january newsletter. Have a look at the bottom of page two.
In this spirit, happy parking!
Thomas Post on February 17th 2009 in University
I’m working on a new small iPhone application. An application who can generate some basic charts and export them as an image to your image library or mail them to someone. That application will be based on the google chart API. For that purpose I started writing a tiny Objective-C framework. I published it under a BSD license on that google code project: http://code.google.com/p/gchart-objc/.
It’s currently just a first version 0.1 and it supports just the basic charts and isn’t stable yet. But if someone is interested in supporting me with that project. Just send me a message. There is still a lot to do!
Thomas Post on February 16th 2009 in Uncategorized
The semester is over and I have some time to spend on my iPhone projects. So spend bot of my iPhone apps a small update. Specially the MiGhtyDocs update was overdue.
Marks 1.2
It’s just a small update. It adds the ability to add some notes on every mark. This was a highly requested feature.
If you haven’t already, buy it now on the iPhone App Store for just $0.99
Need more info about Marks? Go to the product page
MiGhtyDocs 0.9
Finally it supports PDF’s!!
Some resizing problems in landscape mode are fixed too and you have now the ability to cache all documents at once.
Get MiGhtyDocs at the iPhone App Store for free! or go to the product page.
Thomas Post on February 2nd 2009 in Uncategorized
