Adobe has announced the availability of the Photoshop Touch applicationss – Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav – for iPad in the Apple App Store. These three apps were developed using the Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK) to demonstrate iOS developers the potential for new interaction between Photoshop and tablet devices.

The Photoshop Touch SDK makes app development possible on several devices including iOS, Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. Utilizing the SDK, mobile app developers will have extensive access to Photoshop functionality. App developers can use the technology in creating new apps and can also use it to incorporate more capabilities in their existing applications.

Adobe Color Lava allows creatives to use their fingertips to mix colors on the iPad, creating custom color swatches and themes to transfer back into Photoshop.

Adobe Eazel takes advantage of cutting-edge painting technology by letting digital artists create rich realistic paintings with their fingertips, and introduces a new kind of interaction between “wet” and “dry” paints. These paintings can then be sent directly to Photoshop CS5 for compositing or for taking the artwork further.

Adobe Nav increases workflow efficiency by letting users select and control Photoshop tools using the iPad as the input surface, customize the toolbar, browse and zoom in on up to 200 open Photoshop files, or easily create new files.

Adobe Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to build tablet applications that interact with Photoshop from Android, BlackBerry PlayBook and iOS devices.

John Loiacono, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Media Solutions, Adobe said “Tablet devices are destined to become part of creative workflows and these companion Photoshop applications are just the first indications of the creativity we can expect from Adobe and our developer community. With our Touch SDK, we are going to see some astonishing new ways to keep Photoshop at the heart of the creative process no matter what the device – desktop computer, Android tablet, BlackBerry PlayBook or iOS device.”

Source- Adobe

Now you get a chance to sharpen your programming skills for iPhone or iPad application development. The Pragmatic Studio is going to offer their popular course “iPhone/iPad Programming,” twice in coming few months. First time it will be conducted in Santa Clara, CA on August 17-20 and the next session will be held in Chicago, IL on October 25-28, 2010. It’s a hands-on training course for 4 days, where you can learn how to develop iPhone and iPad apps under the guidance of Matt Drance and Daniel Steinberg. The entry is open both for the freshers and the experienced iPhone developers as well.

In this course you can expect to -

·      learn to use the basic tools & APIs in iPhone SDK 4 for the development of iPhone/iPad apps
·      have hands-on coding experience and clear your doubts
·      save time & energy by focusing professionally & exclusively on iPhone/iPad development for all the four days with special guidance from the experts.

The topics include, as mentioned in the course details:
·      Intro to Objective-C
·      Xcode and Interface Builder
·      Cocoa Touch APIs and Design Patterns
·      View Controllers
·      Navigation and Tab Bar Controllers
·      Table Views
·      Keyboard Input
·      Gesture Recognizers
·      Animation
·      Core Data
·      Custom Graphics
·      Performance and Debugging
·      Practical tips, tricks, and techniques used by the experts

The early attendees have reported saying that the course is really helpful as the experts can teach you the techniques required typically. They also point out the challenges related to iOS SDK 4 and the methods to overcome those.

Wired Magazine App for iPad is available in App Store for $4.99. This App was demoed in March & brought us the new look of magazine on iPad. This is heavily loaded with interactive content, as well as slide show, video and music.

This app’s total size around 527MB, which shows that app stores enough of multimedia content but this isn’t good for downloading through 3G network instead you’d prefer downloading it through Wifi network.

Well, the app is available in the App Store but did you know that Conde Nast was actually in talk with Adobe during early this year to get their Wired Magazine app to various tablet platforms including iPad? Adobe has platform through which one can publish their magazine easily to various platforms. Since, Apple first announced that they’re not going to allow cross-compiled code developed through cross-compiler in the App Store, Conde Nast planned not to use Adobe’s cross-platform code and used Apple’s Objective-C, which is iPhone’s native language, to develop this app.

WoW! iPhone OS 3.2 Gold Master Seed is now available for paying members of iPhone Developer’s Program (which now services iPad development too). This is pretty big news for the developers who are gearing up for iPad development. This OS version is the first operating system for iPad.

The email from Apple states this:

• All iPad apps submitted must be built using this release.
• All members of the iPhone Developer Program can submit their iPad apps to iTunes Connect for review and approval. If you did not submit your app during the initial review period, but upload it by March 31, it will reviewed but may not make the grand opening of the iPad App Store.
• Make sure you read the iPhone SDK GM Seed Release Notes before installing and developing with this release.

Here is a direct snap of the Apple mailer..

Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps for the grand opening of the iPad App Store., the email sent to iPhone App Developers by Apple states this:

• Submit Your App by March 27.
• Build and test your iPad app using iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 available on the iPhone Dev Center. Only iPad apps built with iPhone SDK 3.2 beta 5 will be accepted for this initial review.
• Upload your distribution signed app through iTunes Connect by Saturday, March 27, 5pm PDT.
• The App Review Team will review your app on iPad and email you details about the readiness of your app.
• You will also receive additional information about submitting your app for final review before iPad ships.
• Only apps submitted for the initial review will be considered for the grand opening of the iPad App Store.

You can find the apple email below: