iphone

How do you beta test an iphone app?

How can you beta test an iPhone app? I can get it on my own device, and anyone that gives me a device, I can run it on theirs, but is there a way to do a limited release via the app store for beta testing? Update: Also, see this question on getting your app onto phones without using the App Store. ...

Does the Iphone 1/2 have a compass inside?

Can one be simulated by periodicly syncing with GPS and in the meen while working with the accelerometer? I know for example that the N95 accelerometer is invarient to rotation on the Y axis (while beeing face up/down). ...

Can I write native iPhone apps using Python

Using PyObjC, you can use Python to write Cocoa applications for OS X. Can I write native iPhone apps using Python and if so, how? ...

iPhone App Crashing - Error Question

I'm writing my first iPhone app, so I haven't gotten around to figuring out much in the way of debugging. Essentially my app displays an image and when touched plays a short sound. When compiling and building the project in XCode, everything builds successfully, but when the app is run in the iPhone simulator, it crashes. I get the foll...

How do we get arround Apple's decission to skip sms templates for iPhone?

Old title : How to code an iPhone app that will send predefined smses to predefined numbers? Many people I am sure use a smart netbank that lets you transfer money from your savings account to your credit card account, or just ask for the saldo, using just SMS. I have been doing this for a few years now on my 10 year old nokia phone. It...

How can I use Core Animation to interpolate property values over time on my own classes?

Specifically, I am looking to use CA on properties of types other than integers and doubles CGRect, CGPoint, CGSize, and CGAffineTransform structures CATransform3D data structures CGColor and CGImage references and in objects other than CALayers or NSViews ...

Invalid iPhone Application Binary

I'm trying to upload an application to the iPhone App Store, but I get this error message from iTunes Connect: The binary you uploaded was invalid. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate. My guess is that it is not properly signed. I have downloaded my App Store distribution certficate...

Am I allowed to run a javascript runtime (like v8) on the iPhone?

According to this discussion, the iphone agreement says that it doesn't allow "loading of plugins or running interpreted code that has been downloaded". Technically, I would like to download scripts from our server (embedded in a proprietary protocol). Does this mean I wouldn't be allowed to run a runtime like v8 in an iphone app? Thi...

How do I size a UITextView to it's content?

Is there a good way to adjust the size of a UITextView to conform to it's content? Say for instance I have a UITextView that contains one line of text: "Hello world" I then add another line of text: "Goodbye world" Is there a good way in Cocoa Touch to get the rect that will hold all of the lines in the text view so that I can adjust...

What work has been done on cross-platform mobile development?

Have any well-documented or open source projects targeted iPhone, Blackberry, and Android? Are there other platforms which are better-suited to such an endeavor? Note that I am particularly asking about client-side software, not web apps, though any information about the difficulties of using web apps across multiple mobile platforms is ...

iPhone browser tag and optimized web site

What is iPhone's browser tag and how iPhone optimized web site is different from a usual mobile web site? Thanks! ...

Help on website optimization for iPhone

We re trying to work on making a mobile version for one of our asp.net web applications, however we would like to make iPhone specific. Are there any resources out there which provide best practice guidelines: UI Guidelines, any .net control libraries which are iPhone specific. Security guidelines - anything special that the iPhone ...

How do I make a UIDatePicker display specific dates?

My application has a need to let the user choose a date from a list of dates conforming to a certain pattern. For instance, they may need to choose a monday from a list Monday's for a month. Is there a way to get a UIDatePicker to limit date choices to a certain subset or should I just use a UIPickerView? ...

Can an iPhone App Be Run as Root?

I am thinking about the design of an iPhone app I'd like to create. One possible problem is that this application will have to run as root (to access certain network ports). In a typical UNIX app, I'd just get the app to run with setuid, but I'm wondering if that is possible with an iPhone app. I've read this question in Apple's forum...

Do I need to release xib resources?

If I have something like a UILabel linked to a xib file, do I need to release it on dealloc of my view? The reason I ask is because I don't alloc it, which makes me think I don't need to release it either? eg (in the header): IBOutlet UILabel *lblExample; in the implementation: .... [lblExample setText:@"whatever"]; .... -(void)deal...

iPhone app loading

When loading, my iPhone apps always loads to a black screen first then pops up the main window--this happens even with a simple empty app with a single window loaded. I've noticed that when loading, most apps zoom in on the main window (or scale it to fit the screen, however you want to think about it) and then load the content of the sc...

How can I write an iPhone app entirely in JavaScript without making it just a web app?

I don't want to take the time to learn Obj-C. I've spent 7+ years doing web application programming. Shouldn't there be a way to use the WebView and just write the whole app in javascript, pulling the files right from the resources of the project? ...

Checking online status from an iphone web app

Is there a way to check to see if an iphone is online from a web app. That is, in mobile safari, can I check the online status of the device to see if I should try an ajax call or not. In firefox/regular webkit, this would be if(navigator.onLine) { onlineCode() } ...

Develop iPhone applications using Microsoft Windows

Possible Duplicates: ipod touch / iphone development on Windows? iPhone development on Windows I don't have a mac, but I wish to develop iPhone applications on Windows platform. Is this possible? ...

Learning OpenGL ES 1.x

What is the quickest way to come up to speed on OpenGL ES 1.x? Let's assume I know nothing about OpenGL (which is not entirely true, but it's been a while since I last used OpenGL). I am most interested in learning this for iPhone-related development, but I'm interested in learning how it works on other platforms as well. I've found t...