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iPad AdMob integration issues - ads showing but not much more...

Hi, I have an AdMob ad integrated in my iPad game app and seeing two issues: The test ad I get is the wrong size. I am not sure if this is intentional or will fix itself when the app is live. When I click the test ad in my app (AdMob Test iPhone Ad), it disappears and I get no more ads. Neither 'applicationWillTerminateFromAd' or 'did...

What does AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID do?

What does AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID do? All I was able to find was this from Apple's site: // Create a system sound object representing the sound file AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID ( soundFileURLRef, &soundFileObject ); And It isn't very helpful. I always see it created but then never used. ...

iPhone/iPad context menu

Im talking about the menu that shows up when you select a block of text it gives you the option to cut/paste/copy. I figured out how to add one more option to the menu, but if I add two or more options it will say "more" first. clicking it will show all the options I added. But is there a way to show all the options I added upfront? with...

iOS - detect when more than one finger is on the screen

I'm looking for the best way to detect more than one finger on the screen at time. I'm not detecting taps or pinching, just the fact that more than one touch is happening. There don't seem to be any gesture recognizers for that. What's the best way? ...

Show keyboard with a UIPopover

How can I show the keyboard when my popover shows up? The popover is UIViewController that I call from a popoverController. The popover has an UITextField and when the popover is displayed, the keyboard need to show up too and the cursor go to the UITextfield. I tried to put the becomeFirstResponder under viewDidLoad or viewWillLoad,...

Best practice for setting up an automated build server for iphone apps?

Hi all, I'm looking to setup an automated nightly build server for our iphone apps, and looking for advice on what works and what doesn't. Basically, something that at least nightly runs all the unit tests and publishes a new adhoc build to our internal website. All the developers use laptops (which'll be off overnight), so I'm consid...

relationship between rdb and sqlite?

hi, what is the difference between .rdb and .sqlite? ...

iPad memory management

Hello! I have made an iPad application that uses the Apple sample code called "PageControl". I did some changes to it, so i can load local HTML files inside an UIWebView ,inside an UIScrollView. Those HTML files uses CSS to style the layout, and javascript to get some small animations and transitions. The HTML file can also contain vide...

iPad application mail sending

Hee Does anybody know how to check in-application if a mail account is setup on the device? Thanks ...

Cocos2d From iPad to iPhone

Hi there, I currently have an iPad application built entirely on Cocos2D and Chipmunk. I want to port my app to the iPhone now. All I can find are tips on how to rebuilt your app for the iPad. Is there a simple solution, like for say, scale down your cocos2D scene? Does anyone have some best practice tips on this? ...

draw a radar / spider diagram on the iPhone (sdk)

I'm trying to find a class or a tutorial so I can create a radar diagram (spider diagram) for my iphone and iPad app. Is there anything you guys know of? I've found some classes on google.code and github but these don't contain the spider diagram I require. any ideas? (I am open to the idea I may have to write my own class - but I've no...

Detect iPhone/iPad purely by css

Hello, I've been trying to detect an iPhone or iPad purely by stylesheet. I tried the solution provided here by using @media handheld, only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {. However, this doesnt seem to work. Any ideas? ...

iPad, how to implemeted a page control view like 'SpringBorad' ?

as topic, I try to build the effect, but face a problem, I use UIScrollView and PageController, it works on landscape, but not Portrait, if the app starting 'Portrait' mode and then when I rotate the device, the view do not fit to screen, I think that the UIScrollView content size need to redefined, then I assign the 'height' to 'width...

iPad SplitViewController UI - Replicate Apple Mail App

Ok, so I've asked a similar question already, but I'm now faced with a different issue on the same problem! I'm creating an iPad application and trying to replicate the Apple Mail App UI. Initially I could not update the DetailView because I was not updating the delegate when pushing a new navigation controller on the left view, this wa...

Best way of creating graphics-heavy, cross-platform, eBooks?

I have been working on converting graphics and layout heavy books (created in Adobe InDesign) into cross-platform eBooks with non-standard functionality (embedded video, audio, interactivity, etc). Exporting from InDesign to EPUB or other similar formats don't seem to work very well with the types of books I work with. There are all ki...

Advice on Debugging a UIAppFonts Issue on iPad

I recently found this post which seems to describe the same problem I am having with adding my own ttf. My app freezes. However, a few things about the post confuse me, and I'd love to get some help deciphering it. The post is here: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/nagQXB5eX3YsQpevIXMk The relevant passages that I'm trying to u...

Ipad orientation problem with modal view

Hi, i've a problem with a modal view rotation. I create a main view in portrait mode, then i create a modal view. Everything works fine: i can rotate the modal view and all orientation are supported. If i create the main view in portrait mode then rotate in landscape and after that i create my modal view... the modal is in portrait mode ...

UIApplication OpenUrl double-escaping my URLs

Basically, i'm trying to program a "tweet this" button from inside my application. Depending on their spot in the application, they can click the tweet button and it'll shoot them out to Safari with a tweet message that changes depending on where they are. In order to create URLs, I have to escape the query string that I want to put in...

How to know when Youtube player/plugin on iPad goes fullscreen?

Is there any way to know when the Youtube player/plugin on iPad goes fullscreen? I have a UIWebview being displayed inside a Modal view controller that contains a Youtube video. If the user choose to view the Youtube video in fullscreen mode, it's displayed in fullscreen (naturally), but behind the UIWebview's modal view. I'd like to k...

MKMapView: Received memory warning. Level=2

I've got an app that caches a pretty decent amount of data in memory after parsing a csv file, and also displays an MKMapView. After scrolling across the country from one end to the other in the MKMapView, the app inevitably gives me one or more: Received memory warning. Level=1 Received memory warning. Level=2 and finally crashes due...