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iPhone Coding - Learning About UIWebViews by Creating a Web Browser

Brandon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:54:30 +0000

Wow! It has been a long time since my last tutorial… As I wrote in my last post, I had to take a break due to my wife having our baby. But, now I’m back and have a great tutorial for you guys. Today I will be showing you how to work with a UIWebview [...]

The “Digg” of iPhone Apps - Checkout My New Site

Brandon — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:00:02 +0000

It has been a while since my last tutorial. For that I am sorry. My wife is 9 months pregnant and about ready to pop. This being the case, she takes up most of my free time… I have spent a little of my extra time developing a new iphone apps site called freshapps.com. The site [...]

A Great iPhone Coding Resource

Brandon — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:42:03 +0000

I’m sure many of you are aware that Stanford is offering an iPhone development class this semester. On my journeys through the interwebs, I discovered a link to the site where the lectures for this class were posted (via delicious). So for those of you who already didn’t know this, here is a link [...]

iPhone Programming Tutorial - Intro to SOAP Web Services

Brandon — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:21:17 +0000

This tutorial was contributed by Dave (AKA Clarke76) on the Forums. WebSite: http://viium.com -Main project on site is eDuo. A .Net app that connects to OWA Exchange and forwards to IMAP account. Free program for those who can’t use Active Sync Important Links: [WebService] http://viium.com/WebService/HelloWorld.asmx http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/Tasks/UsingNSURLConnection.html http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/XMLParsing/XMLParsing.html http://www.w3schools.com/soap/default.asp -After creating our XML data / SOAP request, we create a URLRequest. We add [...]

iPhone Programming Tutorial - Animating a Ball Using An NSTimer

Brandon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:44:06 +0000

I have noticed recently many people wanting to create games for the iPhone and are unsure where to start. A common misconception is that you must use OpenGL ES to create any game with graphics. I am going to show you today how you can do some simple animation by moving a ball around the [...]

iPhone App Advertising Now Available on iCodeBlog.com

Brandon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:26:00 +0000

After some great input from many of iCodeBlog’s users, I have finally implemented iPhone application advertising on iCodeBlog. If you notice, in the banner area of the screen, there are six ad spaces to be filled. Here are the criteria for putting an ad on iCodeBlog. It must be an add for an iPhone app. This [...]

iPhone Programming Tutorial - Using UITouch To Drag An Image Around The Screen

Brandon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:00:18 +0000

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to use UITouch to get the location of where a user touches on the screen. We will be using this knowledge to drag a UIImageView around. Learning how to use UITouch is the first steps in creating applications that are not navigation based (or don’t only use [...]

Application Advertising on iCodeBlog.com

Brandon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:23:14 +0000

Now that iCodeBlog has been getting a good amount of traffic, I thought it might be time to allow the developers to advertise their apps on the site. However, I first wanted to make sure that there was sufficient interest. Also, I wanted to price the ads appropriately. So, I decided to create a poll to [...]

iPhone Programming Tutorial - Using A TabBarView To Switch Between Views

cruffenach — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:00:30 +0000

In this tutorial I will show you how to develop a UITabBarController which contains a custom UIView from one of the tabs and a UINavigationController with a UITableView dictated byUISegmentControl in the second tab. This tutorial was contributed by the user cruffenach. You can check out his website at http://losectrl-gaincommand.com. If you would like to contribute a tutorial to iCodeBlog.com, contact me brandon@icodeblog.com The final product of this [...]

iPhone Programming Tutorial - Saving/Retrieving Data Using NSUserDefaults

Brandon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:01:03 +0000

In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can save and retrieve different types of data using the NSUserDefaults object. Saving this way is great for when you want to save small amounts of data such as High Scores, Login Information, and program state. Saving to the NSUserDefaults is great because it does not [...]