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Since launching iPhone Developer Tips back in August of 2008, there have been almost 200 tips, tricks and tutorials posted, an average of just over 12 posts per month. The number of page views on a monthly basis is pushing 70,000. All things considered, not too bad…
My primary motivation with this blog is to [...]
UIActionSheet to Display Text Only Messages
UIActionSheet offers a really handy basic menu system, where each button presents an option for the user to choose from. For example, the figure below shows how I am using UIActionSheet to show three menu options for a shopping list view I am working on.
Create an iPhone Icon with No Border
In this tip on how to remove the shine/gloss effect on an iPhone icon, I showed the steps to go from an icon that looks like this:
to an icon that looks like this:
I got a question earlier today from a reader asking: “how can I create an icon with no shine effect and no border [...]
Remove Shine / Gloss Effect on iPhone Icon
By default, when building an application with Xcode, your icon will have a round beveling of the corners and a shine added over the top of the icon. The icon below shows how this looks:
You can override this default by following line to you to the Info.plist file. For example, if you prefer to edit [...]
Safari 4 Beta
A little off topic, but a good tip none the less. Apple recently released Safari 4 beta and if you haven’t given it a try, I highly recommend you do.
Using NSScanner to convert Hex to RGB Color
I’ve found that defining a custom UIColor using RGB values is a little counter intuitive compared to the more common hexadecimal notation used in CSS. This is particularly true if you want to define a color value in a file and don’t want to have to split it into three separate values.
For the most [...]
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Open Source Screen Capture Tool
I’ve been on the hunt for an open source screen cature tool for the Mac. I finally found what I was looking for, a tool that in which you can specify the exact size of the capture window. Let me explain…
In the process of creating screenshots to accompany applications submitted to the App Store, you [...]
Write Debug Output to a File
NSLog definitely has its place in debugging. In a previous post I shared a version I wrote that skips displaying the date and object information, you can read more about the debug command I use on a regular basis here.
iPhone SDK and the NDA
Although we were quickly gaining interest in the iPhone developer forum that I just announced, I was inundated with questions and comments about the NDA and the legality of the forum.
Not being one who is up for pushing the boundaries in a situation like this, I really didn’t want to go this route, however, I [...]
Iphone SDK: First Impressions
I’ve been spending some time with the iPhone SDK to get a perspective on the architecture, tools and overall landscape. In addition, I’ve started to develop a few applications with Xcode (Cocoa/Objective-C) to exercise the tools for building iPhone applications. More on application development next week…
So far, I’m impressed. Here’s how I see things…
The Platform:
The [...]
