Archive for November, 2009
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UIAlertView and Landscape Mode
I bumped into a rather odd UI issue early last week – I was working on an application which runs entirely in landscape mode. However, when I displayed an alert view, it came up as follows: Setting Landscape Mode In my application, I had the following interface orientation setting inside the info.plist file:
Book Giveaway: Head First iPhone Development – Winner Announcement
Each Friday in November, O’Reilly and iPhone Developer Tips is giving away an eBook copy of O’Reilly’s Head First iPhone Development. Winner for this week This weeks winner is Woongcheol Yang, congratulations Woongcheol! Woongcheol is from South Korea and is currently a computer science major at Princeton University. Mostly interested in developing web applications, Woongcheol [...]
Does iPhone Support Camera and Recording of Video?
This is the final tip in a series of four that is based on content from the O’Reilly book Head First iPhone Development. O’Reilly and iPhone Developer Tips are collaborating to give away a free ebook (electronic copy) of Head First iPhone Development each Friday in November. You can register in this weeks drawing by [...]
Book Giveaway: Head First iPhone Development – Winner Announcement
Each Friday in November, O’Reilly and iPhone Developer Tips will giveaway an eBook copy of O’Reilly’s Head First iPhone Development. The giveaway works like this: Each Monday in November I’ll write a tip that is based on ideas and code in the book. Through out the week, you can register for the book giveaway by [...]
Cartoons to Go! iPhone Application
I thought I would pass along that an application I originally submitted in February (yes, February) has finally been approved. Cartoons to Go! is a video streaming application that does just one thing, play vintage cartoons. No Frills UI The application that is now available on the App Store has little similarity to the original [...]
Post to a Twitter Account from the iPhone
This is the third tip in a series of four that is based on content from the O’Reilly book Head First iPhone Development. This tip is from a code sample in Chapter 3 – Objective-C for the iPhone, and shows how to post to a Twitter account.
Book Giveaway: Head First iPhone Development – Winner Announcement
Each Friday in November, O’Reilly and iPhone Developer Tips will giveaway an eBook copy of O’Reilly’s Head First iPhone Development. The giveaway works like this: Each Monday in November I’ll write a tip that is based on ideas and code in the book. Through out the week, you can register for the book giveaway by [...]
Resize/Scale of an Image – Take 1 – Using an Objective-C Category
Editor’s Note: Part 2 of this post Resize/Scale of an Image – Take 2 – Thread Safe Approach takes this idea to the next level, showing how to dynamically resize images using thread safe code. Given how common it is to scale an image within an application, it’s surprising (at least to me) that such [...]
Reading a plist into an NSArray
Reading a plist into an NSArray This is the second tip in a series of four that is based on content from the O’Reilly book Head First iPhone Development. The first tip described how to adjust textfields that are hidden when the onscreen keyboard is shown.
Book Giveaway: Head First iPhone Development – Winner Announcement
On Monday of this week I announced a new contest for the month of November – Each Friday iPhone Developer Tips will giveaway an ebook copy of O’Reilly’s Head First iPhone Development. The giveaway works like this: Each Monday in November I’ll write a tip that is based on ideas and code in the book. [...]
Download, Create and Display an Image from URL
This tip will show the steps to download and display an image from a remote resource. This is handy if you need to add an image as a subview, yet, the image is not part of your application bundle. URL to Remote Image We start by creating a URL to the remote resource: NSURL *url [...]
Adjust TextField Hidden by Keyboard
Welcome to the first in a series of tips that are based on content from one of O’Reilly’s latest iPhone books, Head First iPhone Development, written by Dan and Tracey Pilone. Each Monday in November I’ll write a tip that is based on ideas and code in the book. Book Giveaway – Every Friday in [...]
