iOS Development Goodies

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

• The commercial Sensible Table class for simplified UITableViews (previously covered) gains support for Core Data with its 1.5 release.
• Ray Wenderlich’s latest tutorial is on creating a custom UIView, using a 5 star rating control as an example.
• Dr. Touch demonstrates how to use Apple’s Reachability API to confirm data connectivity in your app, with a focus on the ability to get continuous availability updates recently added in the 2.2 update for iOS 4.x.
• The Sparrow game development library site covers how to automatically use HD textures for iPhone 4 devices (via ManiacDev).
• New iOS development blogger Matt Rix put together a primer on Xcode folder references.

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

• Alex Eckermann has a lengthy ‘quick tip’ on filtering an NSArray using NSPredicate’s.
• Jeff LaMarche lists a code snippet to get all the valid font families and names from iOS.
• Cocoa Samurai shows how to enumerate over the lines of an NSString concurrently using blocks.
• Nick Velios put together an iOS Core Location tutorial.
• Dr. Touch analyzes a bug where a NavigationController from a NIB produces a sticky gray empty status bar on rotation and points to an OpenRadar copy of his bug report.

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

• Dr. Touch reviews improved options to handle tap & hold in table views for iOS 3.2 and above.
• kwigbo provides an introduction to what a finite state machine is and how you can use it to organize complicated logic associated with an object
• Part 2 of UZO Software’s tutorial on gradient buttons shows you how to programmatically add background colors to large amount of buttons.
• Jason Rinn’s new Creating iPhone Apps blog explains how to create easy background tasks using UIApplicationDidEnterBackgroundNotification.

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

• A quick little tip over at Build Mobile Software discusses how to add a drop shadow to a UILabel, to make text stand out when displaying it over an image.
• Developer Nick Vellios is taking tutorial requests on what he should write next.
• I linked to a few other posts on this the other day, and Acorn Heroes chimes in with their own thoughts on setting up an automated build environment
• News comes via iCodeBlog, that the iOS Facebook SDK has been updated with access to the Graph UI and OAuth 2.0 authentication support.
• SneakyInput is an open source class for adding joysticks and other game inputs to cocos2d games in iOS
• Tapworthy author Josh Clark outlines how to use the tab bar in your iPhone app over at publisher O’Reilly’s.

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