Archive for the “General” category
Programming Magic With ReactiveCocoa
by John Muchow on May 20, 2013
Ash Furrow on ReactiveCocoa: When I was in university, every time I sat down to program I felt a rush of excitement and a sense of exploration. I would always learn something new, and things always felt new to me. (…)
Marco Arment On The One-Person Product – Tumblr
by John Muchow on May 20, 2013
Marco Arment on Tumblr: In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies. That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client, David said that we were (…)
Perspective On The Two Minute Sellout Of WWDC 2013
by John Muchow on April 29, 2013
Jason D. O’Grady has a few interesting thoughts regarding the nearly instantaneous sell out of WWDC 2013. Jason’s article begins with the following: Let’s take a look back. In 2009, tickets sold out in one month In 2010, tickets sold (…)
iOS 6 Adds identifierForVendor To Uniquely Identify A Device – UDID Alternative
by John Muchow on October 22, 2012
identifierForVendor will uniquely identify a device to an app’s developer. This can be used as a replacement for UDID.
Should MobileDeveloperTips.com Expand to Include Android?
by John Muchow on May 12, 2012
Since August of 2008, this blog (formerly known as iOS Developer Tips) has focused on iOS application development. Long story short, the rename of the blog was to move away from trademarked names in the domain, artwork, etc. One positive (…)
Resources for Internationalization and Localization
by John Muchow on August 1, 2011
Apple has an abundance of information available if you are interested to learn more about Internationalization and Localization of your applications. Follow the links below to get started: Internationalization Programming Topics Locales Programming Guide Data Formatting Guide Sample Code: International (…)
Create a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)
by John Muchow on November 28, 2010
UUID’s are 128-bit values which are guaranteed to be unique – typically the value is based on a machines ethernet address combined with the current time since October 15, 1582. UUID’s are string values separated by hyphens, for example, here (…)
Voices That Matter iPhone Developers Conference – Register Now and Save $150
by John Muchow on September 20, 2010
Great news, our friends organizing the Voices That Matter: iPhone Developers Conference on October 24-25 in Philadelphia, have graciously provided iPhone Developer Tips readers a $150 savings on event registration, valid now until the start of the conference. This 2-day (…)
Show Your Support for iPhoneDeveloperTips.com
by John Muchow on December 17, 2009
Since launching iPhone Developer Tips back in August of 2008, there have been almost 200 tips, tricks and tutorials posted, an average of just over 12 posts per month. The number of page views on a monthly basis is pushing (…)
UIActionSheet to Display Text Only Messages
by John Muchow on October 21, 2009
UIActionSheet offers a really handy basic menu system, where each button presents an option for the user to choose from. For example, the figure below shows how I am using UIActionSheet to show three menu options for a shopping list (…)
Create an iPhone Icon with No Border
by John Muchow on September 21, 2009
In this tip on how to remove the shine/gloss effect on an iPhone icon, I showed the steps to go from an icon that looks like this: to an icon that looks like this: I got a question earlier today (…)
Remove Shine / Gloss Effect on iPhone Icon
by John Muchow on July 27, 2009
By default, when building an application with Xcode, your icon will have a round beveling of the corners and a shine added over the top of the icon. The icon below shows how this looks: You can override this default (…)
Safari 4 Beta
by John Muchow on March 1, 2009
A little off topic, but a good tip none the less. Apple recently released Safari 4 beta and if you haven’t given it a try, I highly recommend you do.
Using NSScanner to convert Hex to RGB Color
by Rodney Aiglstorfer on February 28, 2009
I’ve found that defining a custom UIColor using RGB values is a little counter intuitive compared to the more common hexadecimal notation used in CSS. This is particularly true if you want to define a color value in a file (…)
Capture iPhone Simulator Screenshots – Open Source Screen Capture Tool
by John Muchow on February 23, 2009
I’ve been on the hunt for an open source screen cature tool for the Mac. I finally found what I was looking for, a tool that in which you can specify the exact size of the capture window. Let me (…)
