Archive for July, 2010
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Capture iPhone Simulator Screenshots – Revisited – iPhone Simulator Cropper
A colleague on a recent iPhone project was looking for a tool to capture a series of screenshots for an upcoming application demo. In a Google search he first bumped into a post I wrote back in February of 2009: Capture iPhone Simulator Screenshots – Open Source Screen Capture Tool, a nice Mac tool for [...]
Truncate a String and Append an Ellipsis, Respecting the Font Size
A number of the UI related controls will automatically truncate and append ellipsis with no effort required on your part. For example, with UILabel you can specify the linebreak mode to indicate how you would like the system to manage wrapping and truncating the label text. However, they are times when having a method to [...]
Download and Install Older Versions of Xcode (Xcode Previous Releases)
As a general rule of thumb, it’s best to stick with the latest release of Xcode. That said, there are times when running an older release can be a good thing. You can download older versions of Xcode by logging into Apple Developer Connection – Downloads and ADC Program Assests (http://connect.apple.com) – You will need [...]
How to Play Movies from the Application Bundle or from a Remote Server (URL)
In the previous two posts I wrote about how to create a movie player that would work across OS versions, as well as how to play a movie in portrait mode (on 3.2 and above) : Display iPhone Movies in Portrait Mode and Getting MPMoviePlayerController to Cooperate with iOS4, 3.2 (iPad) and Earlier Versions of [...]
Display iPhone Movies in Portrait Mode (Updated)
In the previous post, Getting MPMoviePlayerController to Cooperate with iOS4 and Earlier Versions of iPhone SDK, I demonstrated how to work with the most recent changes in iPhone OS 3.2 and 4.0 MPMoviePlayerController to enable one application to play movies regardless of the OS version on the device. In this post I want to show [...]
Getting MPMoviePlayerController to Work with iOS4, 3.2 (iPad) and Earlier Versions of iPhone SDK
The API and overall approach for working with MPMoviePlayerController has changed just enough in the 3.2 SDK (iPad) and iOS4 SDK to cause working applications in earlier releases to be problematic when running on later SDKs. In this post I’ll walk through a short example of a movie player application that will work with 3.x, [...]
Developing iPhone Apps with iOS4 SDK, Deploying to 3.x Devices : Base SDK and iPhone OS Deployment Target
Editor’s Note:You can download and install any previous release of Xcode if you would like to roll back to an earlier version. You can get the specifics here: Download and Install Older Versions of Xcode. If you’ve installed Xcode 3.2.3 you quickly became aware that the only SDK’s packaged with this version are 4.0 and [...]
NSNotification, UserInfo and Object Methods
When working with an NSNotification object, you’ll want to familiarize yourself the userInfo dictionary, which provides access to any additional objects that may be of interest to the receiver. Understanding the object method may also be helpful if you are using the same notification on more than one object.
