iOS Development Goodies

Interesting iPhone and iPad development, design or even marketing items. Often new, sometimes old.

• Noel on the Games From Within blog for indie iPhone game development discusses how to recoloring sprites colors on the fly with customizable color sections in  OpenGL ES 1.1.
• Jeff LaMarche is on a tear with 2 new posts on transparent grouped tableviews and Core Data starting data.
• Mohammad Azam has a brief tutorial on creating animations using image sequences.
• Acorn Heroes posts part 2 of their piece on setting up an automated build in an iOS environment.

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Interesting iPhone and iPad development, design or even marketing items. Often new, sometimes old.

• Jeff LaMarche provides an NSString category helper method to append the contents of a string to a file. He later revises his approach to create a category on NSData directly and use it for both types..
• Mike Ash goes in depth on implementing NSCoding, to save objects in memory to disk.
• The iPhone Game Kit blog points to two cocos2D extensions game developers should know about, for sprint z-ordering and HUD sprites.
• Jim Dovey added an example project to his AQGridView library to expand stacks of images into a new grid, similar to the effect of the Photo app on the iPad.
• Part 2 of Nick Vellios’ GSP tutorial explains how to extra location information like coordinates, altitude and speed.
• A screencast tutorial from My iPhone Adventure demonstrates how to play audio on in iOS with AVAudioPlayer.
• Alex Eckererman covers some of the finer points of UITableViews, including dealing with sluggish and jittery scrolling.

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