InterPhace Solutions Ltd Part 4

The business has stalled for the moment, as I await all the bureaucracy to catch up.

OVI, will not allow me to sign on as a developer until I have a VAT Number. The VAT Number will take a month (!) to process but for that I still waiting on my Business Bank Account. It’s very frustrating. I was under the impression that everything was going to be ready for yesterday but not much luck there.

I’ve come up with a new solution for the IMP project. That will need a little bit of work. Don’t know if I’ll get the time due to personal issues this weekend.

InterPhace needs some language checking. I’ll have to make sure that all the language entries are as well.

Pleanty left to do before release anyway.

The Bank

My hands are sore. I’m normally used to typing but I’ve had to fill out form after form to set up the bank account. I’ve decided to go with the RBS. Partly because the costs are so low (i.e. none for the first two years), partly because the terms were good but mostly because the Business Manager knew what I was talking about, as opposed to the others, who just looked as if I was talking gibberish.

I’ve dropped by the Nokia Store in Manchester. It looks as if the Manager there will let me come in from time to time and test my apps on the handsets I don’t have. Very nice of them, I reckon. But I will wait until I get my details fully validated with OVI before asking him.

I’m now looking through the other App stores. I do wonder if the Mac Mini needs a memory upgrade but I’ll have to wait and see. So the plan is;-

1.Register with OVI.
2.Register with Sony Erricson.
3.Register with Android.
4.Get the Thawte Certificate.
5.Look up HM’s tax man (grumble).
6.Investigate Grants.

InterPhace Solutions Part 3.

The Business is still being set up. I’ve still got to get the business bank account to get sorted but it’s nice that progress is still happening. I'll be visiting the Bank on Monday, with all the legal documents, and putting on my best smile. Hope it goes well.

The Mac Mini arrived yesterday. I had to buy a new keyboard for it but it seems to work fine with both the Mac and the PC. Now I’ve got to get it hooked up to the Net and get the iPhone Development set up. It’s got about 40GB of space left on it, so I think that should be enough.

I’ve got about £320 left, with that, I’ve got to get a Thawte certificate for the code signing and then register as a developer/publisher with OVI and Sony Erricson. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get all that under my buget.

In addition, I’ve got to create a new version of the firewall game, and contact admob and greystripe. I’m going to add adverts to the free version of the Interphace-Firewall game. However, players who play the add-enabled or the free version will be at a disadvantage against people who’ve paid for the proper version. I like to reward players for buying the game.

The next step is the Android version of InterPhace and then the iPhone version. That’s if they implement the l2cap protocol (That’s one for the Bluetooth Geeks).

InterPhace Solutions Ltd - Why now?

Interphace is ready for release but there is no way that I'll be able to get it Java Verified. For a small developer like myself, it's impossible to afford the £1000 it would cost to get the games I've got verified and on the app stores.

However, since the last post six months ago. Both Sony and Nokia have realized this is a problem and are now accepting Thawte security certificates, in order to sign your code, as part of the acceptance for their stores. These certificates are a lot cheaper, so it makes things viable again.

I'll be starting the process with both InterPhace Games next week.

I'm still waiting on the Mac to arrive, its been over two years since I had a new computer and so it will be interesting to look at it this weekend. I'm now up to Chapter Four in the Android book and I'm looking into constructing menus. I love the XML layout thing. it's like approach I use with ASP.NET and C#.

I've got a few things to do now.

1. Pay the accountant for the setup of the company. (I forgot about the VAT so I'll have pay that until I'm VAT registered).

2. Set up the Business Bank Account.

3. Register with OVI.

4. Register with Sony Erricson.

5. Register with Android App Store.

6. Get a New Domain Name and update the website with it.

7. Update my Linked in Profile.

I'll leave Apple until I've got my head round the dev kit at least (especially with all the problems being created with the changes Apple are implementing at the moment).

I've got a get in contact with a friend who can check the language translations, The last thing I want is to offend a French or German person because Babel Fish got the context wrong.

InterPhace Solutions Ltd

I'm quite excited at the moment about this (See the personal blog for the things I'm not excited about). I've bitten the bullet and created a company;-

InterPhace Solutions Ltd.

This is going to be used to sell the Interphace games over the OVI, Sony and any other app stores I can find.

In addition to that, I've got a Mac-mini on order and downloaded the Android SDK on my main development machine. I'm working my way through the Pro-Android Book and finding it a lot easier than when I was learning J2ME. So that's really all the mobile devices covered. I'm aiming to have InterPhace on J2ME, Android and iPhone and being able to play each other (that will be a first ;-)).

I've got plenty of other idea's for Apps as well.

I'm going to be very busy.