Last year, Jason Terhorst of The Apple Blog put together a cute tutorial demonstrating how to build a simple RSS reader for the iPhone. At the time it violated the NDA, but it went up anyway. If you haven’t seen it, however, it’s well worth checking out, as it’s a great way to get into developing your first “useful” application if you haven’t worked on one already.
Jason works through from starting up XCode and creating a new project through to building the project, adding code, and parsing the XML of an RSS feed. The full project can also be downloaded (16KB archive) so you can play with it right away.
Beware that the code examples in the tutorial automatically have 
and similar combinations converted into smileys! This isn’t a problem with the downloadable source, however - just be aware of it when working through the tutorial.
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Jeff Lilly 01.21.09 at 7:03 pm
While I do appreciate the effort he put forth to develop the tutorial, the code is horrible, with memory leaks everywhere. In other words, caveat emptor.
Fabio 01.21.09 at 8:53 pm
Wow!!! Really interesting … I will check this right now !!
Thanks!
Peter Cooper 01.22.09 at 11:11 am
@Jeff: I think memory leaks are a tough topic and a lot of example code out there is a bit scrappy. I’m just thinking out loud here.. but perhaps there’s room for someone to really give a crash course in memory management, a cheat sheet, or.. some sort of thing like that? What do we need?