ipad

Get an iPad/iPhones unique information from your app?

How do you get the unique identifying information from an iPhone/iPad within an app? For instance, I want my app to send support emails to my website for users who have problems and I need to uniquely identify the phone number/id of the device it is running on. Is this possible, forbidden? ...

iPad <-> iPhone GameKit connection over bluetooth possible?

Has anyone established GameKit connectivity between an iPhone app running on an iPad and an iPhone app running on an iPhone? I tried the GKTank example and they won't connect. The iPad throws a "Error: 30509 -- Bluetooth not available.." error when trying to connect. ...

iPhone/iPad Active Architecture? What is it? Why is it there? Who needs it?

What is this selection for? I have the Architectures set to 'Optimized (armv6 armv7)' so a fat binary should be getting build with both, right? So why does this need to set this in the menu? What does it do? ...

how to target css to iPad but exclude Safari 4 desktop using a media query?

I am trying to use a media rule to target css to iPad only. I want to exclude iPhone/iPod and desktop browsers. I would like to to also exclude other mobile devices if possible. I have used <style type="text/css" media="only screen and (min-device-width: 768px) and (max-device-width: 1024px)"> but just found out that desktop Safari 4...

How do I put a background image on a text area (IN THE IPAD)

How do I put a template'd background image on a text area? ...

Cocoa touch - creating view template for iPad

Hi, This is kinda a hard question to describe. I'm just starting to make an iPad app. Now with the amount of real estate I have, I'm planning to have different but similar "views" to populate the space. (might be easier to think a newspaper site, where many of the columns are similar) I would like to create a "view template" so I can...

How to run an iPad app I downloaded from iTunes in simulator

Hi, I don't have an iPad yet, but is it possible to download an iPad app using iTunes and run the app in simulator? If yes, how would I do that? Thanks, Tee ...

Using MPMoviePlayerViewController full screen in iPad app that's not fully ported from iPad...yet.

I have an iPhone app that launched the good old MPMoviePlayerController with a movie file. I changed it to a MPMoviePlayerViewController and used presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated to get the movie to play on the iPad. It looks awful with the 2x sized controls. Can this be coded in such a way that it will look good regardless of...

iPhone. Shouldn't hitting the home button cause UIApplicationDelegate's dealloc to be called

I have put NSLogs in all my classes including my UIApplicationDelegate subclass. I am curious - and a bit nervous - about why I am not seeing them echo anything when I press the home button. I am running in the XCode simulator. Since iPhone/iPad runs a single app at a time, doesn't hitting the home button discard all traces of the runni...

Presenting an image cropping interface

I'm trying to engineer a UI for cropping images in iphone OS and suspect I'm going about things the hard way. My goal is pretty much what the Tapbots duo have done with Pastebot. In that app, they dim the source image but provide a movable and resizable cropping view and the image you're cropping is in a zoomable scrollview; when you res...

Interface Builder is unable to open documents of type iPad XIB.

What this error indicate? ...

Developing iPhone app to Run on iPad - Auto Set 2x

Is there a way to programmatically set the iPad to run the iPhone app at 2x as it is launched (yet keep the iPhone app native). I understand I can create NIB files for each hardware platform, but for ease, I just would rather the app launch as if the user had tapped the 2x on the iPad. Thanks...R.J. ...

iphone to ipad porting

i have iphone project based on tabbar template . want to convert it to ipad, final output i want is to move tabbar inside a splitviewcontroller . How to go about? ...

Endless iPad Swipe?

Hi, i want to implement a ipad view, where i parse an xml file and put the entries side by side on an "endless" ipad view, so you have to swipe through it left and right. could someone tell me how i can implement this? which type of view do i have to use? thanks in advance regards ...

iPad: Better way than invisible button on background to let users exit entries?

On iPad/iPhone, Do you still need to make an invisible button on background to let users exit entries? Is there a better way to dismiss the keyboard when users click outside of an entry? ...

Objective-C for iPad, Where do you put IBOutlet? In instance variable decleration or @property decleration?

Objective-C for iPad, Where do you put IBOutlet? In instance variable decleration or @property decleration? Is there a difference at all? ...

How do you use Django forms when receiving JSON Ajax requests from an iPad?

I'm sending a lot of JSON requests from a native iPad application to my Django web server. How do I translate forms I use on my website to handle an iPad web service? Am I trying to solve the wrong problem, should a web service used from native iPad applications be redesigned to use REST-ful requests? ...

Settings bundle not showing up in iPhone settings

Hi everyone, I am trying to add a Settings bundle in my iPad app, but it randomly shows up in the iPad settings menu. When I run in Debug mode (Device or Simulator) it doesn't show up. When I build in Distribution mode and then deploy the app on the iPad A it shows up but doesn't on iPad B (I have several iPads to test). I am sure the...

Good ways to dynamically generate the start image of an iPhone/iPad app

I'm self-learning iPhone development and I see that one of the aspects of an iPhone/iPad app is the start image that gets displayed when your app is run. I'd like my start image to display some basic info about the user when the app is launched, but that info has to first be collected by the user when the app is first run. That tells m...

animation: make water wave

Hello there - I would like to build a simple animation for a school project. I want to make water wave within a box in such a way that tilting the device causes the water to wave in a direction rather the other. Is there a sample from where I can start to create such effect? Any help is super appreciated. Thx, mE ...