shrinkURL for iPhone
My first iPhone Application is now available. It’s just a small, simple utility but one i decided to develop after noticing (at least at the time of developing) that there just wasn’t an easy way of creating a shortened URL on the iPhone.
There are a number of Twitter applications that do that, but not all of them, and sometimes you want to shorten a URL outside of Twitter altogether (for emails, text messages, posting to Facebook etc)
I wanted to quickly get something into the App Store and just experience the whole thing, hence the currently ‘limited’ list of shortening services (well 1 actually).
I wanted the functionality of the application to be something you just open, it does it’s job and you close it again so it was difficult to make it look ‘pretty’, after all it only has 2 fields, your original URL and your TinyURL and i did find the hardest part was actually having a look that didn’t just have an ‘empty’ feel – hence the decision to make the keyboard a permanent fixture on the screen
So now the initial experience is out of the way I plan to enhance the functionality of shrinkURL and also start working on my second iPhone application.
shrinkURL can be downloaded for free from the App Store