March 23, 2009 on 10:24 am | In Coding | 5 Comments

Very excited this morning my first iPhone application has been approved by Apple – it’s a very simple, but useful app for keeping track of the scores in a Snooker match. I’ve used it to keep track whilst watching Snooker on the TV and it seems to work for me.

There’s plenty more I would like to add to it, like working out how many Snookers someone is behind, collecting statistics for an entire match, allowing mistakes to be undone. I’d love to be able to get live scores into it somehow, so you can follow games as they happen (a bit like the wimbledon desktop app that IBM seem to do each year) but I’ll have to try and find a live score feed from somewhere. Tricky. Perhaps it can be ‘crowd-sourced’ from someone willing to sit on a web page and update the scores?

The main barrier to adding new features is time, and B’s macbook being dead again, so I have to share my iMac with her. Fingers crossed that the repair guys actually fix it this time.

Anyway – it’s been fun learning how to make an iPhone app so far and going through all the gubbins needed to get it on the app store. I don’t think Apple have made it too hard, although some parts (like tax forms) could be easier.

Now we’ll see if anyone likes it!

Update: Direct link to Snooker Scorer in iTunes app store.