It’s voting time again on iCodeBlog. We have learned quite a bit about programming for the iPhone over the last year or so and would love to share that knowledge with you. I was trying to think of my next tutorial to post and then I had a thought to let the readers decide.
I know you guys are all in the middle of the next iFart project and just need a little guidance on something to finish it up. Well, now you have your chance to get advice on what you want to learn. Let us know what type of tutorial you would like to see appear on iCodeBlog by voting below. In addition to casting your vote, leave you suggestion in the comments section of this post.
After some time (few days or so), I will look at the votes as well as the comments and come up with some new tutorials based on them. I already have a guess as to what will win, but this ought to be fun! Happy voting!
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I’d love to see something on MKMapView, and in particular the means to overlay custom annotations on it, whether by drawing with Quartz Composer or some other means.
I’d love to start seeing some tutorials on Open GL ES.
I have been working with Cocos2D for a few days now and love the simplicity compared to learning Open GL ES. It would be great to see a tutorial set on creating a game in Cocos and possibly more interesting for yourself.
MKMapView example with repositioning the current location when it changes. I have seen some examples where people are using a CoreLocation instance, but since MKMapView does this sort of thing for you, there has to be a way to have the map move to the current location. Right?
Undoubtedly, an extensive coverage of the new features of OpenGL ES 2.0 like multitexturing, vertex shading, bump mapping, lightmaps.
Not only are these new and not well known on the iPhone platform, but they are going to be extensively used for high quality 3D games.
Also, tutorials on Bonjour will be well received I think.
Hiya Brandon, first off thx for the great tutorials! Would it be possible to make a tutorial on how to create an image slideshow that launches from a button/image click? Basically like the ones you see in the app store when launched from the iPhone/Touch, where it has the top/bot nav bar that dissappears and has the image count,arrows and swipe functionality.
I would love to see some tutorials about advanced uses of MkMapView with custom layers on it, custom annotations with animations. It would also be nice some tutorials about how to make our own UIView controlers from scracth or subclass the current ones, like UINavigationController.
Many thanks!
I’m building an iPhone app that pulls data from my website and displays it in a tableview and you can click on the cells for more details, save the item as a favorite, etc. Everything works, but I’m having issues with a few leaks and concurrency and having handling larger image downloads so the app is usable on bad cell connections… Any help in these areas would be MUCH appreciated!
Thanks for running this site. 
CoreData would be great – specifically multiple views/controllers (like a drill down tableview with an add thrown in there).
For example maybe update your to-do example for core data…
When the user quits the app, then reopens it, it leaves off where the user just was. I have a View Based App with a Toolbar at the bottom with Previous and Next buttons all hooked up. It would be great if when the user reopened the app, they saw the same textView that they did when they quit.
Game tutorial in OpenGL ES would be awesome (especially one that goes beyond simple drawing and more into incorporating movement, collision detection, etc.)
I’d love to see you adapt the iTennis game into a two player game using wifi / bluetooth / cellular network
Well, it would be interesting to modify the bouncing ball app, and learn how to put two balls in there, and when the balls hit, they can bounce off EACHOTHER as well as the bounds of the screen. I think this would be an easy tutorial, and would help us all get the idea of how to make these “objects” interact with eachother….
How do you do scrolling?
I totally agree with Fu3lRac3r, I have also started working on cocos2d and I find it very interesting too. It will be very useful if iCodeBlog can come up with a tutorial for an easy game like tic tac toe in cocos2d………..this will cover almost all basics like how to manage scenes and layers. Looking forward for a lot of helping materials from iCodeBlog………Thanking in anticipation.
hey brandon–
can’t say how great and detailed your tutorials are!!!
a tutorial on how to access remote databases (probably sqlite since you already talked about that some) would be great. nsdata and nsurl can be confusing… thanks once again!!!
Maybe some information about creating own UI controls?
How ’bout how to do in app email, now that 3.0 is out and that API is available…
A series of tutorials that build a complete product
Such as an inventory management system
Covering product data entry: ( covers SQL , webservice, ui)
Stock level
Sale
Simulated cc processing
Back warehouse shipping with push notification
Max utilization of IB would be cool…
First, thanks so much for these great tutorials. I really have benefited from them. I would like to see some stuff on the iPhone Navigation components and the tab control along with managing the views between tab controls.
Keep up the good work!
Firstly I must say the tutorials are excellent and a big help to a newbie iphone programmer like me.
I’m finding the whole sound side of the iphone is a bit abstruse. It’s really easy to figure out how to play a single sample or sound using the audio frameworkls, but openAL seems a bit scary and I just can’t seem to figure out how to vary the pitch of a sound in real time at all,
@John Costa
Apple has a sample app already done for you. It is called MailComposer (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/MailComposer/index.html)
Your site is a great resource! I would like to see an app where you can drag a (text label) to an other (text label) and drop it, and have it replace the text label.
As requested by a commenter on your UITab bar tutorial video asked, I’d like to see a follow-up to that video that explains/shows how to successfully hook up controls (even a simple button that changes the text on a label) from the newly added views to the one controller. (“Dave” had trouble, and I’m having extreme difficulty, despite trying for days to make it work)
I’d love to see a tutorial explaining how to get a UISearchDisplayController coexisting peacefully with a TableViewController that already knows how to fetch remote results (in a separate thread) and display them (with a custom cell, lazy loading of image icons, etc.).
I only ever see tutorials that work with local data, but never remote data. I have a TableViewController that can show this remote data, hence I’d like to add the ability to do an outright search – supposedly using the Search Display controller. (Or perhaps I’m really really close and there’s some bit of clever refactoring or code-moving that I’m not seeing yet.)
Definitely a good tutorial on Core Data with more than just 2 entities … (Has_many, has_one, many to many relationships etc etc).
Core Data !
I remember your mentioning that SQLite way is not the
best way any more since Core Data is included in 3.0.
I’d highly appreciate if you could elaborate on whys and
hows ! Many many thanks for these EXCELLENT
tutorials, by the way.
I’d love to see a tutorial explaining how to get a pagingScrollViewController use.
i have one example but unable to understand.
in the example the controller is added to main window but i don’t want to add it there.how do i add this controller to my desired view.
i want to use it on more than one view.
Can you show us how to pull data from a database on a webserver and display it on a tableview in the iphone app?
Kinda like your to do list that you save on a website but you can access it on your iphone? I know a ton of people who need help with this!
Thanks!
how to create sub bar that come from hide and be able to save photo and send it
thanks
Expecting hacking stuff ( cocoa element internals ).
would like to see buliding of calendar in iphone tutorial! (:
I can’t seem to get my head around playing mp3 files over http (or mp3 streams) so a good heads up on that would be fantastic!
I would love to see hardware integration. Especially using bluetooth items, like keyboards or scanners.
A notepad app or a note app like on the iphone would be nice. i’m wondering why no one has done a tutorial. With a notes app as a reference you could write a lot of different apps.
I would like some opengl es 3d game tutorials.. i think that would help a bunch of us out
Hello iCodeBlog…I would like to see a tutorial on how pull some data from an array or dictionary, perform some calculations on the data and return that value and rinse and repeat. I haven’t been able to find a good example of that in source code examples or elsewhere.
Thanks….Mark
In the current days the social networking like facebook and twitter or flicker etc are making boom, so my wish to have use of such api’s and with that some part (important parts) of the same, so that it will be easy to learn such things.
I would like to see a tutorial that shows how to make a counter that looks like an analog odometer. Say you push buttons to add 1, 5 or 10 to the total, and the numbers on the odometer will ‘Roll-Up” like they do on a car odometer.
As an extra feature, make it so when the button is pressed, it looks like it is pressed down and when you release it, it pops back up. And of course, a cool clicking sound.
Thanks.
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