The first of many to come

Published on the 21st of March 2010

I know, it’s kind of stupid to post something about our first iPhone app three months after submitting it to the AppStore. During the development, and even afterwards, I didn’t have the time forgot to post about the app on my blog. The following days I’ll be catching up.

The Cooker is the first app Dennis and I created for the iPhone. Well, to be honest it’s not the first iPhone app we’ve built, but it’s the first one we published to the AppStore.

As it’s name implies the Cooker can be used during the preparation of food. It’s a handy tool to use when you’re for instance boiling potatoes. The timer is based upon seconds and easy to control using a special Time picker.

With this app we focussed on a few key features:

  • Easy to use

  • Fast and stable

  • Great look & feel

  • Different

  • Perfect fit for the iPhone

The Cooker looks rather simplistic and I think thats one of the greatest things about it. It's a single purpose, 'less is more' utility. Besides keeping the UI clean and focussed on the primary functionality, we’ve put some extra thought in the behavior of the application. To give you a few examples:

  • When pressing the Cooker during an alarm ring, the egg would instantly mute.

  • When leaving the Cooker and returning to it the timer would how much time was left on the timer. So when you for instance receive an SMS message, and leave the app to read it, the timer wouldn't be reset to 0.

  • When spinning the ‘advanced timer’ picker you’d notice that it would indicate 0 seconds and 1 second instead of ‘1 seconds’.

This simple ‘features’ might seem natural, but it’s the little things that set apart Apple and iPhone applications in regard to the competition.

Apart from it’s functionality the golden egg looks stunning if I say so myself :-)

Buy the Cooker for $1.99 at the AppStore