When you create a table-view-based iPhone app, by default you get tables with plain white rows. But all the cool kids are making apps with 3D-ish gradient backgrounds. You want to make those kinds of apps too, right? This article explains how.
Making table cells with custom backgrounds is …
I know some people who are interested in getting into iPhone application development. There is a lot of advice out there. Here's my advice for experienced developers who start out knowing nothing about iPhone or Cocoa development:
While working on an iPhone application, I decided I wanted to change the colors of the background and section headers of a UITableView with the UITableViewStyleGrouped style. It took a lot more work than I expected, so I'm sharing what I learned with anyone else who needs to do this …
Yesterday, I attended iPhone Camp Atlanta 2009, a conference for iPhone developers and others interested in iPhone development (business/marketing people). At the same time and in the same venue, Mobile Camp Atlanta 2009 was taking place, targeting developers for Blackberry, Android, Palm Pre, and Windows Mobile.
The conference was …
Either I’m stupid, or Apple’s developer documentation sucks. Whenever I try to enter a new area of Cocoa development, I am presented with simplistic tutorials and detailed reference information, with little in between to bridge the gap between newbie and expert. Often, the only way to learn an …
In case you're curious: here's what you'll see if you rescue your iPhone from a hot car:
Appel d'urgence indeed!
For an iPhone app that I'm working on, I want to be able to save the screen image to the Photos album. My first attempt at this was complicated: I created a color space, a bitmap context, a CGImage, and finally a UIImage, copying and pasting most of the code …
I am so thankful for the existence of the iPhone. Twenty years ago, if you'd told me I'd be holding a pocket-sized computer that had a high-resolution touchscreen, a wireless always-on connection to the Internet, and a library of Hollywood movies, I wouldn't have believed it. The fact that it …
Several years back, I created JacksOrBetter for Palm OS. Now, I've created an updated version of that for iPhone and iPod Touch.
It is available for free. Click here to download from the App Store.
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