Tweet For the longest time, I had this lonely single item on customizing the on-screen keyboard on the iPhone sitting in my potential story ideas file. A week or so ago I saw that Matt Gallagher posted a clever keyboard related trick. And then today, Luzian Scherrer sent me a link to a how-to he [...]
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Tutorial: Code Sharing Via Static Libraries And Cross-Project References
Tweet Guest author Clint Harris (Profile) is an independent software consultant with experience ranging from enterprise web app work to custom iPhone app development. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Finding an elegant way to reuse and share code (i.e., libraries) across separate iPhone applications can be a bit tricky, especially considering Apple’s restrictions [...]
Tutorial: JSON Over HTTP On The iPhone
Tweet There are plenty of different places to get a mobile application designed. The problem is that they’re quite expensive. You might be able to figure out how to create your own, but it will probably look very basic. Instead, a good mobile application development software can make it even easier, so that you can [...]
Finding iPhone Memory Leaks: A “Leaks” Tool Tutorial
Tweet There are plenty of different places to get a mobile application designed. The problem is that they’re quite expensive. You might be able to figure out how to create your own, but it will probably look very basic. Instead, a good mobile application development software can make it even easier, so that you can [...]
Hello There: A CoreLocation Tutorial
Tweet There are plenty of different places to get a mobile application designed. The problem is that they’re quite expensive. You might be able to figure out how to create your own, but it will probably look very basic. Instead, a good mobile application development software can make it even easier, so that you can [...]
14 Essential Xcode Tips, Tricks and Resources for iPhone Devs
Tweet Xcode is big. Apple’s Xcode Workspace Guide, a terse inventory of its features, is 116 pages. Xcode’s preference window has 13 sections, each with a dozen or more items. There are at least 206 keyboard shortcuts. I started counting menu items but gave up the ghost when I’d topped 300 items before finishing the [...]
Apple Approved iPhone Inter-process Communication
Tweet Apple is famously restrictive about confining third party apps to their sandboxes. That Apple doesn’t allow background processes is well-known, and Apple rejects apps that attempt to read the various databases and media folders directly. So it’s a bit surprising that Apple supports a form of inter-process communication (IPC) using URL protocol handlers. In [...]
9 iPhone Memory Management Links and Resources
Tweet Memory management is the process of keeping track of objects in your applications and “freeing” objects that you no longer want to keep around (otherwise nasty memory leaks can occur). On the Mac, you can optionally allow Objective C to deal with the memory management on your behalf, but as an iPhone developer, it’s [...]
How to Build a Simple RSS Reader iPhone App
Tweet 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 [...]
Alocola: Mobile Orchard’s Safari Helper: Makes Websites “Location Aware”
Tweet Alocola is a free web-helper application that we’ve created that lets users provide their location information when websites ask for it. It is available from the App Store now. Alocola works with Safari. With Alocola, web developers need not create their own iPhone apps. Users simply browse in Safari the way they normally would; [...]
