I have developed my first real iPhone application to get a kick on iPhone development. I was completely new to Objective-C and it was really difficult to initially pick up the things. But with in a week, I found it its really easier to program using X-code. First day I could not successfully write my own code and run. I have read almost all Apple recomended guides for  iPhone application development and also the videos, But the book that I used to get a start was iPhone Developers’ Cook book.

Once I read that I found it easier to understand iPhone OS programming guide. Because it is lacking some full code implementations for a complete new developer for Objective-C. I have initially coded few small application to get familiar with IB, X-Code and UIKit framwork specially. I am working at hSenid Mobile Solutions as an undergraduate trainee. After initial studies I was asked to implement an iPhone XMPP chat client. Once I went through XMPP protocol, I found there already exists xmpp framework for Objective-C in Google Code, but it was a Mac App. I have used ejabberd server as the XMPP server and my supervisor asked me to configure and install it. I used it as the model for my application and changed it to be run with iPhone OS. After that I have implemented required controller and view to finish my application. Here as some screen shots of my App running with iPhone Simulator.

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