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Autorotation and multiple view controllers

I'm creating an iPad application which should only work in portrait and portait upsidedown modes. For performance reasons in my applicationDidFinishLaunching method I'm creating several viewControllers, and adding them to my main window as subviews. I then hide the ones I don't want to see straight away. There is no tab bar or navigation...

iPhone/iPod & iPad - Limitatios about Universal applications

Are there any limitation in writing universal application for iPhone and iPad ? (or the choice it's only about the code re-usability/design ) ...

How to Set the size of alert View?

hello guys.. I have used date picker in alert view. As alert view has default height and width, I want to change that... Any one know that how to do? Please convey..! ...

Do we need an iPhone/iPad for its development?

Today i was going through an website and found something over this iphone and ipad development projects. I had a question whether a developer requires an iphone to actually work with or is there any other simulator type device where we can test it out too. It would be also great if you can share some docs on getting started. Thanks. ...

Using info.plist for storing target-specific values for a multi-target app

I have a multi-target iPhone app which currently includes a header file with constant definitions that are conditionally included at build time depending on which target is being built. However, I was wondering if it might be better to instead include this information in the info.plist for the build, as this generally holds target-speci...

iPad: UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad doesn't available in 3.1.3 SDK?

Hi, I ported an existing iPhone app to support on iPad. It works fine on iPad because i followed the procedure mentioned in Apple doc. I upgraded that app as creating Universal application, because i want to have a single binary which can work on iPhone and iPad. I have a doubt now is that can i build the same project for "3.1.3", becau...

Hide tab bar when play video sdk 3.2 Iphone ipad

i have a tab bar at the bottom of the screen. An application with 2 view. in the first view there is a button, when press play the video start, but the tab bar remain botton overlay the video. how i can hide tab bar only when video play? ...

MPMoviePlayerViewController on iPad view Landscape

Hi all! I have a view and a MPMoviePlayerViewController.. the iPad is oriented in landscape left mode, but when I play the video, the video is good to see in portrait mode... is there a way to force movieplayer to rotate in landscape mode? thanks in advance ...

UIScrollView not updating

Hello all, I have 5 UIScrollViews that are loaded into a UIView if a specific button is clicked. Each UIScrollView represents a section, and it contains a UIImageView and also another UIScrollView. Each time I click on the buttons to load the new "section", the UIImageView brings the new image, but the inner UIScrollView doesn't update...

UIViewController with background image

Hi all! How can I insert into my UIViewController an image from the resources as background image? thanks in advance! ...

Differences in accessing resources between Simulator and Device?

Is there some difference between the way that bundle resources can be accessed on the iPhone simulator versus a device (in my case, an iPad)? I am able to access a file on the former, but not the latter. NSString *filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath], @"/AppResources/html/pages/quickHelp.html...

UIpopover is presenting user with a 'done' button that I can't get rid of

I'm not sure why this is coming up I am porting my app into an ipad version and moving one of my views which happens to be a navigation controller into a uipopover. I did have a uibarbutton item on the view im porting with a "done" button to dismiss the navcontroller but I commented out that code and its still appearing, not sure why. I...

start an iphone app from within another iphone app?

Is it possible to write a function in an iphone app A that when you click on a button within that app A it will close app A and automaticall open up App B ...

How to manage images (dimension-wise) in iPhone OS 3.1x / 3.2 / 4.0?

iPhone is 480 x 320, iPad is 1024 x 768, iOS 4 is 960 x 640. What is the good practice of managing images for 3 resolutions? Say the app wallpaper as an example, the iPhone is probably a 50%-reduction of the iOS4 one. But it is also tempting to design one dimension (1024 x 768) for both devices (iPad and iOS 4 phones). Any suggestions...

What will happen if my iOS 4 iPhone app gets executed on an iOS 3.2 phone?

I assume it will just crash, right? If I develop an iPhone app that uses the iOS 4 SDKs and it makes it's way on into the app store, how can I ensure it doesn't get downloaded by a person running an older version of the iOS? Thanks in advance for your help! ...

Set a grouped UITableView to start at a given section?

I have a grouped UITableView that has basic data inside it, but I would like to start the UITableView at a certain section when the app loads, can this be achieved? Thanks Mark ...

Unload image of UIImageView thats offscreen

Hi, I'm coding an application on Ipad, in a certain point of my application I present a ViewController with the presentModalViewController. My ViewController is a UISScrollView who take the larger of the modalView and inside it I display some images, I allow pagingEnabled so I can see all my images inside the scrollView. Sometimes I ...

How should I load a xib into a detail view for a split view iPad objective app?

I've got a split view iPad app with table view in the master pane. After drilling down several levels, each time loading a new .xib, I'd like one of the cells to trigger a web page load in the detail pane. Right now I can only get the web page .xib to load in the master pane side -- which is a master pain in my side. The basic load cal...

Interface Builder only allows one button to be "touchable"

I'm making a clone of the classic game simon, the memory matching game. My (iPad) app will load fine, i tap start, the game screen loads, and only one of my four buttons will respond to touch commands. To troubleshoot, I tried creating a second unrelated nib and just populating it with four buttons not linked to anything. However, onl...

Aspects to be considered for iPad development

How different is iPad development compared to iPhone development or Mac OS X development? Does anyone know the best way to learn it? ...