iphone

Running out of memory with UIImage creation on an offscreen Bitmap Context by NSOperation

I have an app with multiple UIView subclasses that acts as pages for a UIScrollView. UIViews are moved back and forth to provide a seamless experience to the user. Since the content of the views is rather slow to draw, it's rendered on a single shared CGBitmapContext guarded by locks by NSOperation subclasses - executed one at once in an...

How can I pass latitude and longitude values from UIViewController to MKMapView?

I have a detail view that includes three UIButtons, each of which pushes a different view on to the stack. One of the buttons is connected to a MKMapView. When that button is pushed I need to send the latitude and longitude variables from the detail view to the map view. I'm trying to add the string declaration in the IBAction: - (IBAct...

UITableView manual scrolling to the last row

I have a table view controller which doesn't let me manually scroll to the last row. It automatically scrolls slightly up so I could never select the last 2-3 rows. Anyone experienced this problem? Should I set a minimum height for the table view to solve this? If so how? ...

Getting UDID from deactivated device without iTunes or XCode?

I installed iPhone OS 4.0 on my friends iPod Touch 3rd gen and forgot to add the udid to the provisioning portal. The device is locked and I can't seem to find a way to revert it to get the UDID. I don't have XCode here. Using iTunes, how can I revert it? ...

How do I make a custom delegate protocol for a UIView subclass?

I'm making some tabs and I want to have my own delegate for them but when I try to send an action to the delegate nothing happens. I also tried following this tutorial: link text But it doesn't work for me :( Here is my code: TiMTabBar.h @protocol TiMTabBarDelegate; @interface TiMTabBar : UIView { id<TiMTabBarDelegate> __de...

Create a Editable Grid View as in iBooks

There have been some similar questions asked regarding Grid views, but none have been sufficiently answered (some have been left unanswered as the SDKs were under NDAs at the time). The question is: Can anyone direct me towards a tutorial, or explain to me what steps to take to create a Grid View similar to iBooks, or the Yahoo! Enterta...

Pattern for iPhone background loading during init?

Hi everyone, I'm currently kicking off a background thread to do some REST queries in my app delegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions. This thread creates some objects and populates the model as the rest of the app continues to load (because I don't block, and didFinishLaunchingWithOptions returns YES). I also put up a loading UIViewC...

Navigation bar is translucent, but that is not what IB says

Hi guys, I think I must be going nuts here. I have a UINavigationController and in every view that I have pushed I have selected Black Navigation Bars in IB, but they all turn up as translucent ones. What have I done wrong? Thanks ...

Objective-C memory model

I am attempting to wrap my head around one part of the Objective-C memory model (specifically on the iPhone, so no GC). My background is C/C++/Java, and I am having an issue with the following bit of code (also wondering if I am doing this in an "Objective-C way" or not): - (NSSet *) retrieve { NSMutableSet *set; set = [NSMuta...

What's your approach to testing iPhone / iPad apps?

When developing for iPhone/iPad do you Do unit/integration/etc testing? What framework(s) do you use? What other framework(s) have you tried (if you decided to not use them, why not?) NOTE This is based on a question asked a few days ago (that has since been heavily edited). Question generated some interesting responses that may ...

Auto-refresh UITableView Help

I am trying to refresh a UITableView with new cells every 30 seconds. My array contains 30 elements, and for every new item I add to my array, I want to remove the last cell in my table. How can I go about doing this? ...

Tap through transparent part of UIScrollView

I have a scroll view with transparent background that covers most of the screen. It also covers some buttons that still need to be tap-able. How can I make sure that the scroll view doesn't respond to touches in regions where the subview image is transparent? ...

Flex 4 vs JavaScript Options (Cappuccino, JQuery, etc.)

Rehashing an older post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1570070/jquery-vs-flex-choosing-a-platform-for-saas We are preparing to develop an application that is exceptionally dynamic and interactive. It's particularly heavy on the graphics side. We are 85% convinced that Adobe Flash built atop Flex is the right path to take, however...

Converting mp3 to caf file for iPhone

Hi, I am experimenting with the sampling rate of the mp3 file to convert it into caf format. afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@44100 ./fricatives_play_all.mp3 ./test.caf afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@22100 ./fricatives_play_all.mp3 ./test.caf afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@12000 ./fricatives_play_all.mp3 ./test.caf afconvert -f caff -d LEI16@2010...

How to provide an custom delete button in the swipe-to-delete gesture of UITableView?

I've implemented that default swipe-to-delete gesture in UITableView, and now I feel that this default button actually doesn't look good in the context. Also, it seems to not be localized. In french it still shows "delete" as text. How can I provide a custom button here? This is how I implemented that guy: - (void)tableView:(UITableVie...

Hiding UITableViewCell

Is there a way to hide a UITableView cell? I'm looking for some property or method I can invoke on the UITableViewCell returned by a synchronous cellForRowAtIndexPath() to hide it and make it unselectable by the user. ...

iPhone: Start or Download App if not exists from Safari

Hi, I know its possible to open an app from mobile safari using custom URL Handlers. Is it possible to open the App Store from Safari on the iPhone and automatically install the app? Or might it even be possible to open the app if it exists on the users device and to download it if it doesn't? Best, heinrich ...

How can I programmatically position a view using relative points?

What is the best way to position a view relative to the size of its superview, when the bounds of the superview are not yet known? I am trying to avoid hard-coding coordinates if it is at all possible. Perhaps this is silly, and if so, that's a perfectly acceptable answer. I've run into this many times when working with custom UI. The ...

iPhone how to enable or disable UITabBar

I have a simple app with a tab bar which based upon user input disables one or more of the bar items. I understand I need to use a UITabBarDelegate which I have tried to use. However when I call the delegate method I get an uncaught exception error [NSObject doesNotRecognizeSelector]. I am not sure I am doing this all right or that I ...

iPhone: How can you draw a piece of an image

Code sample - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect { [super drawRect:rect]; CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(); CGContextSaveGState(context); CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, self.frame.size.height); CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0); CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, self.frame....