Tag: Objective-C
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Help Me Re-Name My Latest App!
Just about anyone who’s been in the same room with me for more than 5 minutes over the last few months has likely been accosted by me in an attempt to show off my latest iPhone app: inPictures. The reaction to the app has universally been positive – people think the idea behind the app…
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How To Write iPhone Apps
More and more frequently I’m approached by folks who are interested in writing apps for the iPhone, and want to know how to get started. Usually these are not other programmers with a few years of experience with other platforms, but rather folks who think it would be neat to get into the whole iPhone…
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How To Detect iPhone App Version At Runtime?
I’m currently working on an application that will need to know what version of the app is currently running. For instance, when I release version 1.2 of the app, I may need to update files that were left behind by version 1.1, but only do the update one time – the first time version 1.2…
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Racing the Apple Timeclock
On Friday, October 16th, I uploaded a new application to the apple iTunes App store. It’s an application I developed at work, and I won’t bore you with details of what it does other than to say it’s called “Auriculo” and is acupuncture related. On Monday at work we decided that we could re-create the…
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UITableView Hints
As someone only recently exposed to Objective-C, Cocoa, and the iPhone development environments, I have been struggling with some of the ways that Apple has decided to do things. Today I beat my head against a UITableView for most of the day, trying to figure out how to set up the view, the datasource, the…
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UIPickerView SDK Permutations
I have recently begun to learn to develop applications for the iPhone. This means I’m getting my head back into Objective-C (where it’s not been for several years – ever since I stopped writing WebObjects code) and learning all the cocoa frameworks and specialized SDK for the iPhone. For a project I’m working on, we…