So this is the official announcement that GottaGo is renamed to Transport.

There is a new logo, a new name, but the App itself hasn’t changed much. We fixed a few issues and improved some minor things like the hitboxes for the Locate-Button and for the Date-Refresh-Button, as they are now a lot bigger.

But, this is again not the fun part :)
Ever since the NDA was in place, I tried to figure out how to get around it. I posted a tutorial about NSXMLParser, which was meant to help iPhone Developers because usually, you’d use DOMDoc and not SAX.

Through personal requests, I was also able to provide some bits and pieces of code because this was some kind of a request of a customer – where you’re allowed to talk about code :)
Now that the SDK has fallen, we have more or less a little greenhouse where we can play around in almost free nature.

A brief history of GottaGo/Transport: It started off as a free-time project and continued as such ever after. I started it to have an example of a real application to help other developers with their own problems. Usually, in books, they always write about your Car object, which has an ivar with wheels and such. Yeah, thanks, not really real-world :) So it’s always nice to look at real code which is used out there. 
To look at code, there really is no better way as to look at Free Open Source Software.

This is why I declare that GottaGo/Transport shall from now on be Open Source and distributed under a more or less GPL v.2 license. So everyone can create their own Transport App or learn from it or improve it. (The latter would be really nice!)

What does this mean? Not so much for the users, as they are only getting better software :) (Yes, I truly believe in FOSS)

For developers this means: Just drop me a line and help developing the best Transport Application for the iPhone there is. This also means that Android developers and iPhone developers in other countries can adapt Transport for their need and release an equally helpful App for their device and country.

For those who don’t really understand what I’m doing here: I give everyone the right to improve, copy and adapt my code.

The code is available on:
https://svn.liip.ch/repos/public/iphone/Transport

Actually, I never said “My best payment is if someone leaves his car at home and uses GottaGo at home” as some newspaper says.. . It was more like “I get money for doing other things, it’s just cool that people are really getting agile about getting around by train, bus and tram”. So this still holds: It’s just cool if someone else has success with the same idea and eventually some code of mine and makes public transit more accessible to anyone with a decent mobile phone.

For my part, I’m still contributing to Transport. However not that often, since I have some other very very nice things to show you in a few days/weeks.

If you want to get into the Transport code – beware, there are grown structures ;) I’m still cleaning up the code and I’m trying to set up a how-to to get around the code base.

For now, just sneak around, maybe you’ll find everything yourself. Else: just drop me a line, or wait until the Wiki is set up.

Checkout “trunk” for the bleeding edge version or “tags/0.2.0″ for the currently in-review-waiting-version of Transport.
As mentioned, license is GPL v.2, so play nice! Actually, it’s more of like creative commons – just use it and copy it as you like..

There is another small project in the iPhone repository: Weblocate.
This basically opens a website with the users current location as parameters, maybe a few web developers will like the idea. You’ll just have to find a way to get it on the iPhone :)
Besides that, it’s a nice example of how to use the locator with a timer.

Code is here:
https://svn.liip.ch/repos/public/iphone/weblocate

There is a wiki for Liip / Codesofa iPhone stuff:
https://fosswiki.liip.ch/display/ipho/Home

Any specs and how-tos will be posted there.
Well then, this is it for today. Hope you liked the surprise. Stay tuned for more FOSS software to follow from Liip and from my side.