2009 will be known as the year the world learned the word app. With the first full calendar year of the app store coming to a close it is amazing to look back and see the growth that has occurred in this market. There are about 100,000 applications now available in the app store, give or take, with more being added every day. While this might seem like a bad thing to the average developer, there seems to be …
The UITextField is probably one of the most commonly used UI controls on the iPhone. It is the primary method of user input via the keyboard and provides a great deal of additional functionality.
With the success of our las API tutorial on NSArray, I thought I would do another walkthrough, this time on UITextField. I will be explaining all of the properties for it as well as bringing up some functionality that you may not have known about.
Text Attributes
The …
Introduction
Back in September I posted a large post going over all the components required to implement the MapKit in your application. The MapKit is a framework introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 and allows developers to easily take advantage of Google’s mapping technology. In my first post I go over how to present a map as well as annotate the map with custom badges to highlight points of interest. The MapKit also …
Introduction
Hello everyone. Welcome to another screencast. Today we will be looking into the MapKit, a new API’s made available by Apple in the iPhone OS 3.0 release. The MapKit allows simple access to the map seen in the maps application. Using GoogleMaps as its engine the map kit allows for a developer to make their own custom map interface to fit their own application. Today we will be reviewing the MapView as well as the Map Annotations that can be …
The site invisibleskinz.com has decided to give iCodeBlog readers a 20% discount on the Invisible Shield for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Today an article from TaranFx has been making the rounds talking about a new open source application called SpyPhone that highlights all of the “information vulnerabilities” within the current iPhone SDK. You can check out the article here:
Everyone has probably heard of the problems some users with jailbroken iPhone have been experiencing. Without the boundaries in place from the SDK many users …
A lot of applications you see have an email button. When you click it then it will leave the application and take you to the Mail application. It can get really annoying leaving the application and then going back in after your done sending the email. This is just a great way to show off your app and make your app look more professional and make it easier on the user by filling in the To and Subject for them. …
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.
This will be a simple tutorial showing you how to put a UITextField in a UIAlertView. This is simple and just a couple lines if code. You will learn CGAffineTransform and coding UITextField programmatically.
Last week I went out to San Jose, CA to go to Apple’s iPhone Tech Talk World Tour!
Apple once a year holds 9 single day “Tech Talks” across the world. This year only 3 were in the US and I was lucky enough to get a spot at the San Jose meetup. The conference was focused on getting developers to use best practices in all regions of their applications. Apple’s stance was even if the app is small, it …
