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Can an iPhone Web App use the Camera?

I have a web app and I want to take photos and then upload them to a server. Can this be done with a webapp? ...

Any way of getting current playback time for iPhone video play in pre 3.2 API?

Is there an API that works for pre OS 3.2 for getting the current time of a video being played back? There's this one http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPMediaPlayback_protocol/Reference/Reference.html But it's 3.2 or later.... Is there any way to do this with the MPMoviePlayerController API...

How to "cheat" the version number of Mac OS for iPhone SDK?

Apple released iPhone SDK for Mac OS 10.6.x and I only have 10.5 and have no plans to upgrade, so I wonder how can I trick for latest iPhone SDK the version number that is 10.6? ...

Instruments - "Target failed to run"

I'm running iPhone OS 3.1.3 on the device and I can run my App in debug mode on the device. I downloaded and installed the xcode_3.2.2_and_iphone_sdk_3.2_final.dmg twice, without any luck. I appreciated any hints. ...

Why doesn't Apple make private APIs inaccessible?

If Apple doesn't want developers using private APIs in the iPhone SDK, why don't they do something like mark the classes and/or methods with whatever the Objective-C equivalent of C#'s "internal" keyword? If the APIs are spread amongst multiple binaries, Apple could refactor them into dedicated private-API-only binaries to make this eas...

Apples new section 3.3.1

With Apple making changes to section 3.3.1 on the iPhone dev agreement can one stillness libraries like boost in their apps? I want to use Boost in my iPad app... ...

What you need BEFORE you submit your iPhone app to Apple

When submitting a new app to the iPhone app store, which of these are mandatory, and which are optional? (Free apps... or paying apps.) A bank account with direct deposit access. An email address to give out to the public. An email address for Apple to contact me. A support website. A company name. A support phone number for the publi...

iPhone + Provisioning Profile + app-info.plist + entitlements.plist = iPhoneApp ? How ? What exactly does entitlemets.plist do ?

To execute my application in iPhone first of all I have to add provisioning profile in to my iPhone. Good. But I don't understand the reason behind adding a entitlements.plist in iphone application in xCode under resources. What does that entitlements.plist file do actually ? Why that .plist file have only single Boolean in it ? (get-t...

Downloading & Viewing ePub Books

I have the following requirements for an iPad App and would like to know if it's possible to implement them: Download ePub books and view them in iPads iBooks reader Install the downloaded book in the devices itunes library, so that they are accessibly from the iBooks applications ...

Memory leak in Apples 'Scrolling' sample code

Hi All, I'm using code based on Apple's "Scrolling" sample code - here's where I have a problem: // load all the images from our bundle and add them to the scroll view NSUInteger i; for (i = 1; i <= jNumImages; i++) { NSString *imageName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"page%d.png", i]; UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:image...

Is there a way to programmatically extract the feed of a podcast from the iTunes page?

From an iTunes page, like http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-tech-mp3-edition/id73329404, is there a way to extract the corresponding feed address? In this case it would be http://leoville.tv/podcasts/twit.xml. I know that if you open on iTunes you can extract it manually, but I want to do it programmatically. There's a lin...

Apple push notifications could not receive size of message error

I'm trying to send some push notification message to my App using the sandbox option. I'm getting those messages on my console: Sun Apr 25 21:56:22 unknown /usr/libexec/notification_proxy[57] : Could not receive size of message Sun Apr 25 21:56:22 unknown /usr/libexec/notification_proxy[57] : Could not receive message How do I resolve ...

When iPhone Application Submitted Information Changes Reflects

Hello... Fortunately our first application is in App Store now.. And in my itunesconnect account some of the fields are editable like screenshots, support url etc.. So, my question is if I update some of my screenshots or if I update the support url field when it will be reflects to itunes ? Or it will directly reflects once I update...

Apple Events from Applescripts

Hi: I'm planning to make a little applescripts to do some action when iTunes change the song in playing, but i can't found how to put my script to listen for the apple event that should launch iTunes when the track change. Did anyone knows? i know you can make a objetive-c application can register whith Apple Events Manager to listen f...

File bug for iPhone SDK

Hello guys, How exactly filling bugs for the iPhone SDK with Apple works? I've always seen people mentioning we should fill bugs and duplicates is their way of measuring priority, but it's not clear to me: How to actually fill the bug; How to flag someone else's bug as a duplicate, and; What do I need to tell people I've filled that ...

iPhone WebApps, is there a way to detect how it was loaded? Home Screen vs Safari?

I have an iPhone Web App. I'm interested in detecting if the app was loaded either from: 1. iPhone Safari 2. iPhone installed web app (via the add to my homescreen) which loads without the safari bars. Any ideas? ...

Could You Quickly Test a Web Page in Apples Safari 3 [Simple Pass:Fail]

I am not fortunate to have access to Apple Safari 3.0 [which has a WebKit version < 525]. Would someone kindly test a Web page for me, it will return your userAgent string and a simple pass:fail. In WebKit versions < 525.… [<= Apple Safari 3.0] it should fail and >= 525.… [>= Apple Safari 3.1] it should pass. I appreciate all your help...

Does iPad support 4096x4096 view?

Does iPad support view with a 4096x4096 frame? ...

iPhone Developer account with someone elses credit card

Hi I wanted to enroll in Apples iPhone developer program the problem is I myself don't own a credit card is it Ok if I use some one else's credit card to sign up... I mean can I just use the credit card I have to pay apple 100$ dollars & specify my account details from any transactions originating from Apples side. (& yes I cannot get...

Is there an OpenAL programming guide from Apple?

I can't find any. Maybe there is one, anyways? ...