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UIScrollView and CALayers

I have a custom UIView that is composed entirely of CALayers. In the awakeFromNib method it creates and sets all the CALayers into their appropriate positions (CAGradientLayer, several CATextLayers, and a few custom CALayer subclasses). The custom UIView does not override the drawRect: method because there's no drawing done directly int...

How to Get the Title of a HTML Page Displayed in UIWebView?

I need to extract the contents of the title tag from an HTML page displayed in a UIWebView. What is the most robust means of doing so? I know I can do: - (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView{ NSString *theTitle=[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.title"]; } However, that only works if javascript ...

Making a site mobile friendly

Is there a way to make it so when a site is viewed with a phone or other small mobile device the site automatically recognizes that it is being viewed as such and either re-directs to a phone friendly subdomain mirror or automatically calls a script that makes it phone friendly? Any articles or advice would be greatly appreciated! ...

A big, green UIImage anyone?

According to this post, there is a stretchable UIButton image that is red. Does anyone have a green one? (My Photoshop skills are very poor.) ...

IPhone Interface Builder: Z-Index, Z-order of a button, image, ui element, etc?

Hi, I'm dragging things around in the Interface Builder... I'd like to specify whether an image is in front (like an indicator) or behind of a button (like a background). I don't see any z-index property as I'm used to seeing on other environments. If there isn't a z-index property what is the best way to go about what I'm trying to a...

Switching Views in iPhone SDK?

How come this won't switch views for me? When I click the button it does nothing... -(IBAction)howtoplayButtonClicked{ howToPlayViewController = [[HowToPlayViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"HowToPlayViewController" bundle:nil]; [self.navigationController pushViewController:howToPlayViewController animated:YES]; [HowToP...

Porting an iPhone app to iPad -- single application, or fork?

I have an iPhone application I am about to modify for the iPad. My problem is: the application is designed to work for iPhone OS 2.0 and if I make it for the iPad, I will have to design it for OS 3.2. I cannot change the iPhone version, because I risk some of my users with old versions of the iPhone not being able to run the app. Obvi...

How to add a button to the right hand side of a UITableView entry?

I am working on an in app purchase app. I would like fill a table view with a list of products, and put a BUY button on the right hand side of each entry. Does anyone have the UITableView - fu necessary to do this? Thanks! ...

How do I store a persistent array of objects on the iphone?

I need to store an array of user created objects (a user enters data for several properties and then commits it), and I need it to be available in a database or something similar so that I can call it up and display the data when the user calls for it even after the user quits the program(the persistent part). Other considerations are ...

How to create layer that floats above the tabbarcontroller on the iphone.

'lo all. I am in the ending portion of my app for the iPhone and found that I am in a section of the app where I want to give feedback about the status of some background process running (location manager accuracy) and want to place it in the lower left of the screen. This can tell a user how "sure" we are about the given search resu...

Is it possible to integrate with autocomplete in Android / Mobile Safari from JS?

I'm currently developing a simple Javascript/HTML timetable application for use on mobile phones. The application includes a search facility that I would like to add autocomplete to, but doing so from within the DOM results in a pretty messy experience on Android (and I guess also iPhone). At least on Android, while the user is focused ...

A UITableView followed by several buttons- any way to size the table view to fit a variable number of rows?

In Interface Builder, you have to set the size of the tableview and position the other elements beneath that. I want the tableview to be sized to fit any number of rows and the buttons to be moved down relative to the tableview. Is it possible to do this without building the whole thing programmatically? ...

OpenGL ES recommended way of displaying a background image

Whats the recommended way of displaying a background image in an OpenGL ES app. UIImage added to view hierarchy underneath glview? image drawn in OpenGL draw routine from texture in memory? Are there any performance / memory considerations to take account of? ...

iPhone MessageUI email attachments not being sent to receiver

I am trying to attach an image and a pdf to an email using the MessageUI framework. I followed the MailComposer example in the Apple documentation. On the iPhone it seems to work perfectly, the image and the pdf both show up in the body of the send mail window as expected. However, when I receive the email on my MacBook there are two ...

URLs and Images in TTStyledText

Hi i created a TTStyledTextLabel, works well. Now i want to make URL clickable, i've done this: textLabel.text = [TTStyledText textFromXHTML:[content objectForKey:@"content"] lineBreaks:YES URLs:YES]; but my links are still unclickable. Do i have to setup a UIWebView first? Where to declare it? Another thing is, is it possible to re...

Is there any way to access iPhone mail app mailboxes inside my own iphone app?

Hi Everyone, I wonder if there's any way to loop inside a mailbox and get the list of messages inside the mailbox. I want to open each message and take screen shot of the email. Is there any way to do this? Any reference? Thanks for your help. ...

Is it bad to modify Core Data properties in validateForUpdate:?

I am using Core Data for an iPhone application. I have a property isChangedFromOriginal that defines if the data (for several fields - if one is changed it is the same as if all were changed) was changed from a preloaded standard. I am planning to create a subclass of NSManagedObject and perform the checks in ValidateForUpdate:, howe...

Programmatically reading and changing elapsed time of music(iPod's media library)?

I am creating a music application, much like the standard music app. Now, I am befuddled on how they were able to read and change the elapsed time of a song using a UISlider. How is it possible to read and change the elapsed time of a song? ...

Where can I find a good iPhone/GWT/AppEngine example?

These seem like a great combination--I'd expect to see more on at least GWT/iPhone integration, but there isn't much. I've looked through the reader example that Google made, but it doesn't seem to take advantage of many of the iPhone features. I was wondering if anyone knew of a tutorial/resource that showed how to use things like loc...

How can I disable a button while NSXMLParser runs, then enable it when it completes?

I have a viewController which imports XMLParser.h as the class xmlParser I'm passing an NSURL object in my viewController to the xmlParser class with the getXML method below goButton is the button I tap to call the getXML method below. I disable the button which I tapped to trigger the getXML method, but I'm not sure where to put the ...