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Monthly Archives: July 2009

How to deal with iPhone Device Provisioning without Stabbing Your Eyes Out

By Collin | Published: July 31, 2009
Introduction So for any developer than has joined the iPhone Development program and attempted to throw their app on their phone, the process of provisioning is a familiar and likely painful process. Like many developer you may have several projects [...]
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iPhone Development: Where is all the $$$

By Collin | Published: July 29, 2009
Hey guys, So this is the first post we are doing that is more about developers than about developing. The Guardian put up a great article today talking about the app store, developers and what is driving sales. The app [...]
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Getting Images From The iPhone Photo Library Or Camera Using UIImagePickerController

By brandontreb | Published: July 28, 2009
This will be a simple tutorial showing you how to access the iPhone's photo library as well as the camera. Since the 3.0 update, the methods for picking photos have been deprecated. So this will be a 3.0 and above [...]
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Programmatically Getting a Screencapture of any UIView

By Collin | Published: July 27, 2009
Introduction Hey guys. This post is in response to a comment made in my last post about NSTimers. Techy asked if we could do a post on how to take screenshots programmatically using the iPhone SDK. For this minor project [...]
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iPhone Programming Tutorial: Animating A Game Sprite

By brandontreb | Published: July 24, 2009
One thing I have noticed about many of the games in the app store is they lack animation. Of course, the huge companies like Sega and PopCap have some pretty amazing animation, but what about us indie iPhone game developers? [...]
Posted in iPhone Game Programming, iPhone Programming Tutorials, iphone | Tagged , , | 47 Comments

NSTimer: The Poor Man’s Threading – Code Snapshot

By Collin | Published: July 23, 2009
Introduction Hey guys. So usually the posts we put up here involve screencasts and presentations, but we are going to start also posting small less time consuming pieces for the site. Today I bring to you a small project involving [...]
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Voices That Matter iPhone Conference | Special iCodeBlog Reader Discount

By brandontreb | Published: July 22, 2009
Calling all iPhone Developers.  Pearson Education has hooked iCodeBlog up with a sweet discount to this year's Voices That Matter iPhone developers conference.  The conference will take place in Boston starting October 17th.  Here is some info from them (Including [...]
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Code Snippet: Prevent The iPhone From Sleeping

By brandontreb | Published: July 22, 2009
The code below will prevent the iPhone from dimming its screen and ultimately going to sleep. Use it wisely as you don't want your application becoming notorious for being a battery hog :) [UIApplication sharedApplication].idleTimerDisabled = YES; Happy iCoding!
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Anyone else having issues with MPMoviePlayerController in iPhone OS 3.0?

By brandontreb | Published: July 21, 2009
Ok, so I'm currently updating an application for work and am getting some strange behavior with MPMoviePlayerController when trying to stream video.  The problem is: When the user presses the "Done" button on the player during the buffering stage (right [...]
Posted in iphone | Tagged , | 24 Comments

Server Upgrade Aftermath

By brandontreb | Published: July 17, 2009
The server upgrade is finally complete.  And as a result, iCodeblog is faster and more reliable than ever. We have just finished linking back up the assets (videos, screenshots, etc...) and are ready to start blogging again. For those of [...]
Posted in iphone | 12 Comments