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How do you get / invite beta testers for your iPhone / iPad app?

How do you get / invite beta testers for your iPhone / iPad app? ...

iAd testing on iPhone

I'm having a bit of a problem testing iAd on the iPhone and on the simulator. The methods that are called when the ad is loaded or failed don't seem to be called when testing and Apple doesn't want apps to show empty frames when there are no ads to display. Basically, what I did was to hide the AdView and show it only when the bannerVie...

Putting my iPhone app on my phone to test?

Hi All, How do I take my working iPhone app and put it on my phone to test with? I dont seem to see how and my googleing doesn't turn up what I think I am looking for... I am a registered developer and have paid my $99 already. Would anyone know? ...

Display an address on a map on the iphone

If I supply an address as a NSString. How can I use mapkit to show me a map with that location centered and a push pin showing that address? What's the easiest way to do this? EDIT: Is there a way to call the built-in Maps app to do that for me? ...

Avoiding infinite recursion synching between multiple NSManagedObjectContexts

The setup: I have two managed contexts setup (on an iPhone application). A main context that I use for most queries and a background context I use for long running operations that I want to happen in the background. I've setup notifications for NSManagedObjectContextDidSaveNotification against each managed object context. In response t...

iPhone SDK, selection Rectangle around a view

I have a Drawing app of sorts and am looking for some feedback on ways to draw a selection rectangle, and or the resize grips for a selected view. So I have a custom class that is inherited from UIView, in it it contains a UIImageView, UILabel, and UIButton. I can have several on the screen at one time. I want to tap on one and draw a ...

Iphone - begginer questions - retain data member and Notifications

Hi, Just need 2 really basic clarifications. 1. Lets say I have a class A which has a member delcared like: @property (nonatomic,retain) NSString* stringInstanceVariable ; In one of my methods, I want to initialize stringInstanceVariable to be some string. Do I need to retain it or not ? should I call: stringInstanceVariable = [[NS...

Universal iPhone/iPad appDelegates

When creating a new project (universal iPhone/iPad) using Core Data, there's the usual appDelegate which creates the ManagedObject Model/Context etc., then there are the two subclasses of the appDelegate (one for each device). I can't seem to call the moc from the subclasses (using [super managedObjectContext]). Could someone enlighten m...

Weird popping noise when playing different sounds with different volumes set through OpenAL on the iPhone

I'm using OpenAL sound framework on the iPhone, and I'm setting different volumes on individual sounds. I'm running into a problem where I'm hearing an initial popping/clicking noise when switching from one sound to the next. It's really noticeable when I have one sound that's got a high volume (1.0) and a second sound that has a low on...

Rotating UIButtons on a view.

I have 5 buttons on a UIView that I would like to plot evenly along a circular path, and have them rotate continuously along that path. To be clear, I don't want to rotate the buttons themselves, I just want them to move along the circular path. What is the best way to manage this? ...

Trouble decoding with NSKeyedUnarchiver

Hi, I am writing an app targeted at iOS 4.0 on XCode 3.2.3 where I store some data when the app closes using NSCoder protocol. Saving seems to work fine, the problem is retrieving the data from the saved files. My save method looks like this: -(void)saveMusicalWorksToMemory{ // create the save paths NSArray *paths = NSSearchPat...

NSAutoreleasePool issues on the iPhone

Hi all, I have a small iPhone app which has a button on the first view. When I select this button I load up my new view which has an image on it. I'm currently using the following code to load the image from an online source on a separate thread, whilst allowing the user to continue controlling the application: - (void) loadImageTest {...

Resizing UITableViewCell content width automatically

I have some code that creates a table cell with a slider. It's pretty straightforward and it sizes well on the iPhone. I've anonymized it a bit here: UITableViewCell* cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:@"Foo"] autorelease]; cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone; C...

How can I escape slashes and quotes in Objective-C?

I would like to do the following [controller setMessageBody:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"<strong>%@</strong> <br> <br> %@ <br><br> %@ <br><br> Sent From MyApp",self.articleTitle, self.articleDescription, self.articleURL] isHTML:YES]; on the last %@ I would like to do <a href="%@">Hello</a> But I am not sure how to escape it properly...

How to display the text of an html file in UIAlertView as a message....

Hi....i am new to iPhone programming.. i have an html file..in that 3 lines of text is there. i want to display that text in alertview in the message part. for this we need to read the html and store the data in a string..Den use that sting as a message... am i right..? then hw to read the html and how to store that in a string..? plea...

Iphone UITableView custom cell button event

Hi All, I have a UITableView which has custom cells as its rows. In these custom cells they have 2 buttons. I catch the click of the button in the custom cell class. Just wondering how i pass that event from the custom cell class through to the parent view controller that is holding the UITableView control. Advice? Thanks ...

Problem with linking - iPhone app

I'm having an issue while trying to link an iPhone app to use one of the static libraries that I'm working with. The app works fine with iPhone OS 3.0, but when I try to upgrade to iOS4.0, I'm having a few issues. The library that I'm trying to use is an universal fat which contains versions for arm and i386. Now I'm getting the "symbo...

Is there any better way for comparing a string with multiple strings?

Hello, I want to compare a string with multiple string.For ex if([var isEqualToString:@"Box"]||[var isEqualToString:@"Ball"]|[varisEqualToString:@"Bat"]) { some function }else{ some fuction } In my case i have to compare with 15 string, so i have to check for 15 times.Is there any other better way to compare it.Is there any small sim...

Easiest way to authenticate user in iPhone app?

I'm planning to write an iPhone app that does not require user to register. However, I would like to associate all registered user with at least an email so that I can send them email notifications when needed. OpenID - seems to do what I need, but it doesn't work well on an installed app (unless I use... WebView? Even that is not us...

Proper usage of Application Delegate to send messages.

I have a class that communicates with a server (let's call it 'Downloader'). Sometimes, the server may reject the connection due to a bad login. Instances of this class are used thru-out my program by many different objects, and when the login is rejected Downloader needs to tell the RootViewController to display a login interface. Many ...