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How to launch links in UIWebView with the Safari app?

I have an small embedded UIWebView for my about-section of the app. When the user taps a link in there, the link opens in that small embedded UIWebView which of course has no navigation controls and isn't full-screen. I don't like that. Can I force it to open links with Safari instead? ...

Access the a built-in camera from Safari installed on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch?

Is there a genuine way to access the a built-in camera from Safari intalled on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch? By genuine I mean no hack, no workaround, no extra app to install. There is no flash capability installed on the web browser for those devices and I need to enable my users to, with their permission, be able to use the camera...

How to add an Facebook Like button to the about-secion in my iPhone app?

I've finally managed to add an Like button to my website, using the OpenGraph protocol and that FBXML thing, similar to this: <script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;fb:like href="http://mywebsiteURL.com" layout="button_count" colorscheme="dark"></fb:like> In my iPhone app there's an UIWebV...

How to correctly name all those Launch Images for an universal app?

Default.png for iphone, Default4.png for iPhone 4 (or is it [email protected]?), and Default-iPad.png. Is that correct? ...

Are there use-ready Ticket Systems for iphone app developers?

I'll release my first app soon, and I'm afraid of getting dozens of bug mails from users every day. Tapbots for example have a great Ticket System in place. When you send them an support inquiry from their web form, you immediately get an email in return with an big ID in the subject, and some professional text like "please always provid...

MPMoviePlayerViewController unwanted replay issue

In Ipad (IOS 3.2) I am working on an app that needs to play a opening .mov. When the video (while located in startUpVC) is finished playing it will call another VC for a welcome page. After several VC changing when I called the function [viewController.view removefromSuperView] in delegate I found that the app called the startUpVC (in th...

ZipKit and iPhone

Hello, I tried to use the ZipKit framework (http://bitbucket.org/kolpanic/zipkit/wiki/UsingZipKit) in the test application for iPad. I followed the "Traditional way" of the installation (as it is described on their page) with no success. Hope somebody can help me with it: 1/ I used hg to get sources 2/ I build the ZipKit project (Re...

Getting "Application failed codesign verification. ... " warning after adding Distribution configuration to xcode - how to solve this?

I went step-by-step for about 5 hours through the process of adding an Distribution configuration to xcode. After that, I keep getting this error even when I build with my Debug Configuration: Application failed codesign verification. The signature was invalid, or it was not signed with an Apple submission certificate. (-19011) The...

Is there any size limitation of ipad application?

Hi, I know maximum size of application in app store is 2GB. and we can only download 20MB apps through 3G and unlimited through wifi. What about a application that wouldn't be put into app store, is there any limit? Also, is there any guru know any performance issue when the application is big? what is the ideal limit if there is any,...

IOS UIDatePicker always initialized with actual date and time

Hi, I have a problem with initializing a UIDatePicker within a Popover Controller on iPad. The picker works fine and always returns the correct selected date but when I want to modifiy the date it should display using [datePicker setDate:selectedDate animated:YES]; or datePicker.date = selectedDate; It does not change and always d...

UIView Animation Misbehaves when iPad orientation is changed

I am using this code for UIView transition effect [UIView beginAnimations: nil context: nil]; [UIView setAnimationDuration:1.0]; [UIView setAnimationBeginsFromCurrentState:YES]; [UIView setAnimationTransition:UIViewAnimationTransitionCurlUp forView:self.view cache:YES]; [UIView commitAnimations]; Now the problem is that when i rotated...

iPhone/iPad stretchy, resizable buttons - subclassing UIButton

I want to be able to make custom buttons which have an image background using a scale9 type background image meaning the width of the button can be dynamic. I have seen example on the web of people doing this on a per button basis but it seems to me that wouldn't it be better to create a new object which subclasses UIButton which you can...

Custom activity indicator popup

Hi, This may be a simple question but i would like some help to find out how to make it. I want to make a custom "loading" popup for my ipad app. Just like this app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY31Bn5slv0 you see the black loading popup at +- 30sec,40sec,56sec,... I remember that i had a sample of this, but can't find it back. C...

NSLocaleUsesMetricSystem always YES on iPad

Hi I am trying to decide if the users Region/Locale settings validates the use of Metric values (in this case if kg or lb should be appended). I am running 3.2 on my iPad and on the simulator(Xcode 3.2.4). I have tried out a few different Region settings but I simply can not make it return NO for NSLocaleUsesMetricSystem NSLocale *lo...

create a close "X" button for a UIView

How to add the button on the boundary of the UIView frame? I want to have a close button at the top left corner of the view,just like the Maxim app for IPad. ...

UITableView scroll smooth with certain speed?

I'm building a custom slot machine with a column that exists of a uitableview. When the user pulls a lever the tableview should scroll to a certain position with an index. I used the method: - scrollToRowAtIndexPath:atScrollPosition:animated: But this method will make the table scroll with a constant duration. So you will not really ...

access variable of a view controller from a pushed view controller

I am using a navigation view controller to handle two view controllers; one each for the landscape and portrait orientations. Now, I need to set a propery belonging to the view controller A(for vertical) that pushed the view controller B (for horizontal), from the view controller B. Is there any way I can achieve this? Sample codes and e...

Iphone limit memory

I am writing an application for iPhone/iPad and I need to implement a function to allow users to upload pdf. i wonder if there are limits on the amount of available memory? ...

Adding "Open In..." option to iOS app

On iOS devices, the Mail app offers "Open In..." option for attachments. The apps listed have registered their CFBundleDocumentTypes with the OS. What I am wondering is how my app might allow users to open files generated by my app in other apps. Is Mail the only app that provides this feature? ...

What are the first things people do when starting a new iOS project?

Hello, world! I recently started diving into iOS development and am happy to announce my first free app has been approved by the App Store (don't worry, I won't spam it on here)! Now that I feel more comfortable with building iOS apps, I'd like to begin building out some ideas I have for more advanced, paid apps. As such, I need to co...