iphone

How does Urbanspoon display map?

I've looked at Google's map API, which is all javascript and terribly slow on the iPhone. I then tried using the link option available at maps.google.com. That is fast but I can't see having much control over it. It also displays a little search box at the top of the map. Google's API says you must use maps in a website, which the iP...

Is speed control over music on an iPhone plausible?

I'm writing an iphone app, and I would like to have the user able to slow or quicken a pre-made sound file. Is this possible? If so, how would you do it? Edit: This looks like a dup of the following post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1191313/iphone-sound-adjust-speed-of-playback-of-audio-file-while-playing ...

TabBar like controller

Hy, I'm creating a UITabBar like controller. It has a bottom image with buttons, and a UIViewController to manage views. I'm using URLs to navigate between them. The problem is, when I navigate into another view the whole view flows away, and i can't find a way to have the bottom image stay while just the upper viewcontroller flows. Wha...

Tab/navigation hybrid like iPod/Music

I'm working on an application that I'd like to use the same hybrid of navigation and tab bars that the iPod/Music application uses to navigate playlists. Basically: Navigation to deal with delving deeper into a particular list tree. A tab bar along the bottom to switch between lists, which appears on most/all subscreens. The tab bar's...

How to read the gsm modem messages in objective c?

Hello, I need the the cell-id information to display in my iphone app, the app sends AT commands to the modem but...I do not know how to read the modem messages. Please help me. ...

Predicting performance for an iPhone/iPod Touch App

I don't have an iPhone Developer Program Account yet and will be getting one in the next couple of days. Can instruments be used with the simulator to give a rough estimate on how well my app may perform? Using instruments I checked and fixed all the leaks it was detecting, and it appears that my memory usage maxes out at about 5.77mb. I...

Using UIButton for In App Purchasing

Hi Everyone: I am wondering if there is some way to make an iPhone application where when a user clicks a UIButton, it to display an alert box about the item and then gives the user an option to purchase it. I see a lot of documentation on Apple's site regarding creating a view to store all of the choices of what to buy, but I don't re...

Is it possible to implement iPhone push notifications in a Google App Engine application?

I'm in the planning phase of an iPhone application and am considering using Google App Engine for my server component due to its scalability features. Push notifications are sent using a binary interface to gateway.push.apple.com:2195. However, the JRE for the server is only allowed to use the following standard classes, which does not...

How can I use iphone playback control images as buttons in my own app?

OK, you know the playback controls in the iPod app. They are simple Play/Pause, FFW, REW image buttons, but when touched upon, they show a glow effect. I want to use them in my own app, so it will have the same look and feel: w/ the same glow effect. Surely I could recreate all of them in PS with the glow effect image added to UIControlS...

my iPhone software is so slow!

I ported one of my mac applications to the iphone. WOW!!! is it slow! At first I started thinking maybe I was doing a lot of disk access. But as I started looking I realized I simply do an offset read of a binary file. I only read in about 512 bytes of data. I also have an array that is huge. Maybe 2MB. But why would that be slow?...

Requirements for a game

I'm writing an iPhone game and I am trying to write some requirements documents. I have never written requirements before so I got the book Software Requirements. I have not finished it yet, but I forsee some issues, as this book is targeted towards a business. My main question is I am the only person involved with this game and I fee...

is DELETE is supported in sqlite3 database in iphone?

Hi All, i am beginner in iphone application and want to delete record from database is it supported by sqlite3 and yes then how to perform this operation. ...

"Untar" file on iPhone

Hi All, I'm writing an iPhone app which downloads a tar-gzipped file from a Webserver, then needs to unarchive this file so that it can be copied into the app's Documents folder. I'm using tar/gzip because I want to download a whole bunch of small files in one HTTP request, to make everything nice and fast. I've investigated solutions...

iPhone UITextView scrollable but not editable

How can I get a textview to be able to scroll without the keyboard poping up for edit when clicked on? I am pretty new to iPhone programming and I've tried several different combinations in Interface Builder, but can't seem to get any to work. Also I am having trouble when I have two textviews on the screen where only one of them will sc...

Downloading multiple items in package

I need to allows users to download multiple images in a single download. This download will include an sql file and images. Once the download completes, the sql will execute, inserting text into an sqlite database. This text will include references to the download images. The text and images are rendered in a UIWebView. What is the ...

How to preserve iPhone application state before terminating the application ?

Hi all, I have developed an iPhone application with tab bar and navigation controllers. It is working fine for now. Now I want the application to save its state before quitting. Suppose I have 6 tabs and If an incoming call comes , so after relaunching the app I should see the tab selected that was lastly selected . I have seen seve...

Bug with NSURLConnection.....?

I am trying to send the data to server from my IPhone client. It works fine for most values but when i try to send a string like "IPhone+Cocoa" the server shows the string as "IPhone Cocoa". I have tried to google it but without success is there any why of doing it. Here is my code -(void)sendRequestNSString *)aRequest { NSMutableURLR...

can we check push notification in simulator?

I want to know that can we receive push notification on simulator or not.also i want something like this tell me if it is possible.the app opens unregistered for push notification and when app terminates register for push notification. ...

How can I get the timezone of given gps coordinates on iPhone?

My question is simple. I have the GPS coordinates of a place and I need to know, in what time zone (and daylight saving settings) is on that place. Is any easy solution for this problem in objective c? ...

want to fetch the friends list of facebook thorough fbconnect in iphone using objective-c ?

how to fetch the friends list of facebook in iphone through fbconnect in objective-c? I am using this code (void)getUserName { NSString *fql = [NSString localizedStringWithFormat: @"SELECT uid FROM user WHERE is_app_user = 1 AND uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = %lld)",[FBSession session].uid]; NSDictionary* params = ...