iPhone Archive

  • iPhone4ResolutionScreenshot

    Quick guide to updating your app’s UI for iPhone 4

    iPhone 4 will make your UI look stunning. Everything in UIKit has been scaled up already so it will require only a bit of work on your end to make the rest of your app look amazing on iPhone 4. If you only code and don’t...

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  • Waiting For Launch

    Debugging Executables for Push Notifications

    I am implementing Push Notifications in one of my apps. Doing so may be a bit tricky in terms of debugging since you cannot actually debug incoming Push Notifications appropriately while the app is running, so I wanted to share this tip. Also, I am...

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  • UIView Animation Block

    Some notes on UIView animation

    UIView animation is a simple and nice way to add to your user experience. I just wanted to point out a few suggestions when using UIView animations. Duration (speed): If you choose to use animation to compliment some of the stuff already happening in UIKit,...

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  • ipad_lines_applestore

    Why the whole world can’t have iPad now

    I was chatting with a friend today regarding the possible release of iPhone HD on the day of this year’s WWDC June 7th keynote. This lead us to talk about previous year’s release dates and whether the iPhone HD will be available worldwide on the...

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  • Custom colour in your moreViewController's navigation bar

    Colouring fun with moreNavigationController

    When adding more than 5 view controllers to your UITabBarController, a “More” tab is automatically setup for you, which includes a view controller and even a modal view for letting the user edit the app’s tabs in the order they want. By default, the navigation...

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  • Axel.app with nice shadow offset in custom drawn cells

    Shadow offset in custom UITableViewCells (for the inner OCD in you)

    Apple has a great example code for drawing fast UITableView using custom, complex UITableViewCells called AdvancedTableViewCells. In the example code, you get three versions and I prefer the one named CompositeSubviewBasedApplicationCell, because it draws your cell as one view, just like Loren Brichter’s Fast Scrolling...

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  • Translucent UINavigationBar

    Translucent UINavigationBar

    Apparently, making your UINavigationBar requires a (tiny) bit more code than just: self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent; After trying hard to change my UINavigationBar colour, and mostly giving up, I found out you have to set its tintColor to nil. self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = nil; self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent;

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  • Visual UITableView

    Getting visual with UITableViews [UPDATED]

    UPDATED 27/8: I’ve updated the code and pushed it to bitbucket. All the drawing takes place in a separate class and only one subview is added to the cell(s). Again, if you need to add images for every single cell in a large UITableView, you...

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