My First Foray Into iPhone App Development

Pro RSS Reader (and by extension, its free lite version) holds the distinction of being the one feed reader iPhone app available in the iTunes App Store to have the most straightforward name for an app of its kind and wear the widely used orange RSS icon at the same time. In its roster of features are full text and image caching, the ability to categorize feeds into folders, item archiving, email support, image exporting to photo roll, and over-the-air OPML file and Google Reader import. The overall look of the app, characterized by minimal yet effective use of color gradients, is something I’m particularly fond of. And what makes it even more special for me is the fact that I played a part in its development, albeit a very small one.

Several weeks ago I got in touch with the very amicable Simon Oualid, the man behind Pro RSS Reader. I learned he was looking for individuals to translate his app into several foreign languages, and being somebody born and raised in the Land of the Flips, I volunteered to convert the strings within the app to Filipino (or Tagalog, not really sure). And so began my first foray into iPhone app development.

The result? I was later informed by Simon that my translations were integrated in the latest update of Pro RSS Reader. A section of his official statement in the App Store says:

Many thanks to the people who helps in translating the app :

Danish : Christoffer “Raa-Y” Raabye
Deutsch : Andreas Müller
Dutch : Luuk Mulder
Filipino : Aldrin Calimlim
French : Antaya
Itialian : Marco Medori (marcomed_at_gmail.com)
Korean : Youngseok Oh
Polish : Maciej Król
Russian : Dmitry and Natasha Tsozik
Spanish : David Novella
Swedish : Sebastian Pundars
Turkish : Ayhan A. Birlik

So I guess it’s Filipino after all.

(cross-posted on WhatsOniPhone.com)