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Category Archives: iphone
Floodgates opened for iPhone development
For as active as iPhone application development community is, achieving success in iTunes has been an elusive affair for those who participate in this vertical. The two main obstacles presented to anyone who wants to create an iPhone applications are: one, finding resources/developers with the right skill set; and two, marketing the application after the application has been submitted. The bad news is Apple keeps iTunes a black box. Unless your application has been reviewed or mentioned on review sites or blogs, no one will be able to find your application outside of iTunes. This makes marketing your application relatively difficult. Here's the good news: the cost to build an iPhone application should come down substantially as it no longer requires a developer with an exclusive knowledge to a specific technology to build an application for iPhone.
Also posted in Uncategorized, iPhone Articles, objective-c 11 Comments
Debugging Tutorial – Automating Your Tests With A UIRecorder Instrument
If you have ever experienced a bug in your application that took many steps to reproduce, then this tutorial is for you. By nature, testing and debugging are very tedious processes. This is especially the case for the iPhone.
Say you [...]
Also posted in iPhone Programming Tutorials Tagged iPhone Coding, iphone debugging, uirecorder 8 Comments
Objective-C Tutorial: NSArray
The NSArray is a huge workhorse that we use quite frequently without even thinking about it. The NSArray class isn't just your ordinary array. Not only does it provide random access, but it also dynamically re-sizes when you add new objects to it. While I won't go over every method in NSArray (there are quite a few), I will discuss some of the more important ones that are most commonly used. Let's take a closer look at this class.
Also posted in iPhone Articles, iPhone Programming Tutorials Tagged iPhone Coding, iphone dev, nsarray, NSMutableArray 19 Comments
iPhone Programming Tutorial: Animating A Game Sprite
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 [...]
Also posted in iPhone Game Programming, iPhone Programming Tutorials Tagged iphone animation, iPhone Coding, iPhone Game Programming 38 Comments
Anyone else having issues with MPMoviePlayerController in iPhone OS 3.0?
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 after [...]
Server Upgrade Aftermath
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 you [...]
Posted in iphone 12 Comments
Look Familiar?
Ok, so I was perusing the App Store the other day to stumble upon this gem of an application. See the screenshot below.
If you have been on iCodeBlog before, you might recognize this "game" from a tutorial that I wrote [...]
Objective C 2.0: An Intro – Part 1
Introduction
Hello everyone, welcome to my second screeencast. This is going to be the first in a series of screencasts that are focused at people just beginning to work with Objective C and Cocoa. For many reasons the beginnings of learning [...]
Also posted in Uncategorized 46 Comments
Custom UITableViewCell Using Interface Builder
Hey everyone, welcome to my first of many screencasts coming in the next few weeks. Today I am going to show you how to layout a UITableViewCell in Interface Builder and have a UITableView populate with those type of cells. [...]
Also posted in Interface Builder, Uncategorized, iPhone Articles, iPhone Programming Tutorials, objective-c Tagged uitableview, UITableViewCell 62 Comments
iPhone In Action Book – Free Chapter Downloads
Manning Publishing has started their MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) for the book I am working on. What this means for you is FREE DOWNLOADS. There is currently only one chapter available, but there will be more as the book progresses.
The chapter currently available is about audio recording and playback. It goes into detail about the AVAudio frameworks as well as the MPMediaPlayer.
Floodgates opened for iPhone development
For as active as iPhone application development community is, achieving success in iTunes has been an elusive affair for those who participate in this vertical. The two main obstacles presented to anyone who wants to create an iPhone applications are: one, finding resources/developers with the right skill set; and two, marketing the application after the application has been submitted. The bad news is Apple keeps iTunes a black box. Unless your application has been reviewed or mentioned on review sites or blogs, no one will be able to find your application outside of iTunes. This makes marketing your application relatively difficult. Here's the good news: the cost to build an iPhone application should come down substantially as it no longer requires a developer with an exclusive knowledge to a specific technology to build an application for iPhone.
Also posted in Uncategorized, iPhone Articles, objective-c 11 Comments
Debugging Tutorial – Automating Your Tests With A UIRecorder Instrument
If you have ever experienced a bug in your application that took many steps to reproduce, then this tutorial is for you. By nature, testing and debugging are very tedious processes. This is especially the case for the iPhone.
Say you [...]
Also posted in iPhone Programming Tutorials Tagged iPhone Coding, iphone debugging, uirecorder 8 Comments
Objective-C Tutorial: NSArray
The NSArray is a huge workhorse that we use quite frequently without even thinking about it. The NSArray class isn't just your ordinary array. Not only does it provide random access, but it also dynamically re-sizes when you add new objects to it. While I won't go over every method in NSArray (there are quite a few), I will discuss some of the more important ones that are most commonly used. Let's take a closer look at this class.
Also posted in iPhone Articles, iPhone Programming Tutorials Tagged iPhone Coding, iphone dev, nsarray, NSMutableArray 19 Comments
iPhone Programming Tutorial: Animating A Game Sprite
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 [...]
Also posted in iPhone Game Programming, iPhone Programming Tutorials Tagged iphone animation, iPhone Coding, iPhone Game Programming 38 Comments
Anyone else having issues with MPMoviePlayerController in iPhone OS 3.0?
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 after [...]
Server Upgrade Aftermath
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 you [...]
Posted in iphone 12 Comments
Look Familiar?
Ok, so I was perusing the App Store the other day to stumble upon this gem of an application. See the screenshot below.
If you have been on iCodeBlog before, you might recognize this "game" from a tutorial that I wrote [...]
Objective C 2.0: An Intro – Part 1
Introduction
Hello everyone, welcome to my second screeencast. This is going to be the first in a series of screencasts that are focused at people just beginning to work with Objective C and Cocoa. For many reasons the beginnings of learning [...]
Also posted in Uncategorized 46 Comments
Custom UITableViewCell Using Interface Builder
Hey everyone, welcome to my first of many screencasts coming in the next few weeks. Today I am going to show you how to layout a UITableViewCell in Interface Builder and have a UITableView populate with those type of cells. [...]
Also posted in Interface Builder, Uncategorized, iPhone Articles, iPhone Programming Tutorials, objective-c Tagged uitableview, UITableViewCell 62 Comments
iPhone In Action Book – Free Chapter Downloads