iphone

Where is the iPhone's Date & Time getting its time zone list

I can get a list of time zones with [NSTimeZone knownTimeZoneNames], but that only gives the time zone IDs which include one or two cities in each time zone. The Date & Time settings has a great list of cities and I have seen a few other apps that have the same if not similar lookup lists. Where do these lists come from? I do need to ...

Can you receive SMS messages in your app on iPhones?

I am wondering if you can officially receive SMS messages in your app (and remove the default SMS app). I believe it can be done on Android, I just wonder if this is possible on iPhone OS. ...

Attaching a static library to an iphone/ipad application

Hello, which is the best approach to include a static library with into an application for iPhone or iPad? I could choose to compile the library supplying right platform and building a library file with the ar utility and then add as a framework to the project including the source of the library .c/.h and compile them together with th...

How to get left-top and right-buttom latitude and longitude of map in MapKit For iPad ?

Hi, i'm looking for answer about getting latitude and longitude from uimapkit. there is same problem that has been answered, but it didn't give right coordinate. http://yit.me/3ddp73 it's code from thread i'm linking above. CLLocationCoordinate2D topLeft, bottomRight; topLeft = [mapView convertPoint:CGPointMake(0,0) toCoordinateFromV...

iPad/iPhone browser crashing when loading images in Javascript

I'm trying to build an image gallery in Safari that mimics the iPad photo app. It works perfectly, except that once I load more than 6MB or so worth of images either by adding them to the DOM or creating new Image objects, new images either stop loading or the browser crashes. This problem is widespread enough (with everyone else hitting...

iPad/iPhone Dev: displayViewController Is Rendering Portrait in Landscape Orientation

-(void)displayFirstScreen { UIViewController *displayViewController=[[UIViewController alloc] init]; displayViewController.view = displaySplash; [self presentModalViewController:displayViewController animated:NO]; [self performSelector:@selector(removeScreen) withObject:nil afterDelay:2.0]; [displayViewController rel...

Using CATransition in a viewController

Hi I'm trying to implement the ViewTransitions code sample from Apple, but putting all the logic in my viewController instead of my applicationDelegate class. I'm getting a bizarre error when I try to compile. _kCATransitionFade", referenced from: _kCATransitionFade$non_lazy_ptr in ViewTransitionsAsViewControllerViewController.o (...

Objective-C and Interfacebuilder with Audio

I want to make an app that has buttons that when pressed, plays a sound. How would I add the sounds, and then use the Line thing in IB to connect them to a button? ...

iPhone UI: No edit button for UITableView, bad idea?

I have a UITableViewController which lets the user drill down into different records. On the second level/view, the user can add and edit new records. But, I am not sure what to do, since the back button is on the top left, and I need to put the "Add" button on the top right, so there is no room (keeping to HIG) for the edit button, wh...

Resized XIB still full size

Building an iPad app. I have a button on my main view that I want to launch a help window. The help window is fairly involved and has its own xib/controller. I resized the help window's XIB and saved it. I instantiated it and added it to the application controller's views as a modal. For some reason this window is still taking up th...

New iPhone Dev policy...how does Apple enforce this?

Apple doesn't want anyone to create iPhone apps outside of the Xcode/Objective-C environment. How can they actually enforce this? If the non Xcode IDE, for example Unity, compiles to an iPhone executable, how will Apple know which dev environment you used to create the app? Can they have Xcode compile some sort of signature into the e...

Modal view becomes partly transparent when dismissing?

A completely ordinary setup: UIViewController where I push another UIVC: BlahVc *blah = [[BlahVc alloc] initWithNibName:@"Blah" bundle:nil]; UINavigationController *nav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:blah]; blah.delegate = self; [self presentModalViewController:nav animated:YES]; [nav release]; [blah releas...

iphone view controller class - how to

Hello - I need to create my own UIView class and it is not something I have had to do. I created the class, then laid out the small view in IB (it's just a few labels that i will later need to add data to ). but now im stuck on how to actually put an instance of it in my main view. Can someone point me in the direction of a good tutori...

Can I add an additional eula/tos inside my app on top of the iphone app store agreement

I have an app that allows users to generate and publish content. I would like to possibly be able to use the content they publish/create to make derivative works, ie books etc (similar to what icanhazcheeseburger has done.) If I were to put an opt in alert to ask the user whether or not they would like to be a part of this, would this vi...

applicationWillTerminate Appears to be Inconsistent

This one has me batty. In applicationWillTerminate I am doing two things: saving some settings to the app settings plist file and updating any changed data to the SQLite database referenced in the managedObjectContext. Problem is it works sometimes and not others. Same issue in the simulator and on the device. If I hit the home button wh...

Other class view cannot be loaded into TabBar Controller

Hi, I am making a project with 3 child views that are switched by a TabBar. What I did Create a project (Window-Based) Add 3 child classes (Window-Based too) Add a Tab Bar Controller to MainWindow.xib For each view under Tab Bar Controller, the 'Class', 'Name', 'Title' and 'NIB Name' are all set to connect to the corresponding class ...

To Make an item wiggle and delete

I need to delete/remove an item in my Iphone application. For that i should make tat item wiggle(shake) when i give long press. And then it should ask for an alert to delete or not??? Can anyone guide me plz??? It ll be more helpful if u help me with a source code Tanx in advance ...

HTML5 Webapp as regular icon or app on iPhone and Andorid.

Hi all, Sorry if this is a noob question, I searched quite a bit and couldn't find an answer. I'm developing a html5 app that relies on sqlite for local storage. I'd like for it to appear as an app icon on the iPhone/Android screen, what's the best way to do this? Ie can I write some sort of "wrapper" app to achieve it? Thanks! ...

To stop CALayer from overlapping each other

I've an image placed over the CALayer.. When there are multiple images in screen, the images in the layer overlaps each other.. But it shudn't overlap actually. Cud anyone help me in fixing this??? Is there any block of code to prevent them from overlapping??? Tanx in advance for ur help... ...

iPhone: Can't animate contentInset while animating Nav Bar show/hide

In my app, I have a table view. When the user clicks a button, a UIView overlays part of that table view. It's essentially a partial modal. That table view is intentionally still scrollable while that modal is active. To allow the user to scroll to the bottom of the table view, I change the contentInset and scrollIndicatorInsets values t...