Creating Static Libraries For iOS

April 7th, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 51 Comments

Today I’m going to show you how to make a static library for iOS. We will make a simple library and use it in a separate project.
What’s a static library
Here is what has to say:
In computer science, a static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and …

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    Facebook SDK – Posting to User News Feed

    March 28th, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - 72 Comments
    What the Posts will look like!

    Hello, I’m () and I recently finished working on . Many applications use Facebook for posting content from their respective applications, there could be infinite items that a developer would like to post to users feeds whilst using their applications but today we will be focusing on posting a link to a users feed.
    In order to get started using the Facebook SDK & API’s you will need to download the latest copy …

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      Using Git Versioning inside your XCode Project

      March 23rd, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Featured » Tutorials - 13 Comments

      This tutorial will show you how to automatically fill in CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString, when using Git.
      This has been tested in Xcode 3.2.5 (Updates for Xcode 4 at the bottom)
      Git Setup
      First off you need a project that is checked into git, and is also tagged with an initial version number.
      If you already have git setup for your project, skip down to XCode Setup
      To locally setup up git, without a remote repository, after installing git, issue the following commands
      cd into your project …

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        A Sneak Peek At TweetMapper

        March 18th, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Articles » Featured » Uncategorized - 3 Comments
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        Devotees will remember that last year the team over here at iCodeBlog released a little iPad app called TweetMapper that showed a live stream of tweets coming down from 10 major cities. Well since then Twitter deprecated its support for XML and increased its support for better searching. As a result about a month ago we dusted the project off and went at completely rebuilding it. We added Core Data in, support for the now current streaming JSON output from …

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          Guest Bloggers And iOS Developers Positions

          March 4th, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - 5 Comments

          Guest Bloggers
          Hey iCoders! We are looking for some guest bloggers to write iOS tutorials, code snippets, tips, tricks, you name it for iCodeBlog.
          How to apply:
          1. Shoot an email to btreb@elctech.com with a link to your current blog (or iOS articles you have written)
          2. We will check your stuff out and most likely give you contributor status to iCodeBlog
          3. ???
          4. Profit (OK, no profit (yet), but you get exposure(link your blog) AND the good feeling that you are contributing to the …

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            Update: ELCImagePickerController

            March 3rd, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Articles » Featured - 12 Comments

            I recently spent some time with . For those of you who’ve worked with UIImagePickerController, you might have noticed one of its major drawbacks: you can only select one photo at a time. ELCImagePickerController solves this issue by cloning the UI of UIImagePickerController, but with the added bonus of allowing you to select multiple assets. Collin Ruffenach (), who authored the the first version of the picker, has done an awesome job of making …

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              An Introduction to Categories (Part 2 of 2)

              February 24th, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Featured » Tutorials - 3 Comments

              Using Categories to enhance models, and get rid of those pesky compiler warnings
              Overview
              When using Core Data, our model classes are always generated. What happens if we wanted to add a couple utility functions to one of these generated classes? Yep, they would be discarded the next time we auto-generated our model classes. As we discussed in our previous categories post (icodeblog.com), adding a category on one of these generated classes would enable us to add those utility …

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                iCodeBlog 4.0

                February 10th, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - 6 Comments

                If you’re going to write about mobile development, and if you’re going to get excited about all the great things happening in this space, you have to be ready to change.
                We are and we did.
                This is the new look for iCodeBlog. We hope you like it. It is now part of a network of sites. A pretty cool network of sites under the aegis of Velum Media. We have SmallNetBuilder, Mxdwn, and TG Daily. Something for everyone.
                But, everything we do …

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                  ELCTextFieldCell – A Useful TableViewCell for Forms

                  January 4th, 2011 Posted by: - posted under:Featured » Snippets - 16 Comments
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                  Hello iCoders, today I am going to be open sourcing a UITableViewCell we have created over at ELC that we have found to be very useful. When developing apps we have found that many times a form of some type is required. This is common in Registration forms, contact forms, feedback forms, etc. The problem was writing the same basic code over and over to have an elegant fast form experience for the user. To quicken the development time of these elements we created the ELCTextFieldCell class which facilitates the creation and flow of a larger form. In this post I will be walking you through the usage of the class.

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                    Implementing UITableView Sections from an NSArray of NSDictionary Objects

                    December 10th, 2010 Posted by: - posted under:Featured » Tutorials - 44 Comments
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                    If you’re working with a remote Web Service, your apps are probably displaying TableViews of objects. As soon as your dataset grows beyond 20 or 30 objects, it’s time to implement sections in your Table View. I’m going to show you how you can do this without too much trouble. In this example, we’ll use an array of dictionary objects (Books) to construct a single ‘sections’ dictionary that will be the basis for our TableView datasource.
                    Before we …

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