Archive for October, 2008

iPhone Programming Tutorial – Using A TabBarView To Switch Between Views

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In this tutorial I will show you how to develop a UITabBarController which contains a custom UIView from one of the tabs and a UINavigationController with a UITableView dictated byUISegmentControl in the second tab.
This tutorial was contributed by the user cruffenach.  You can check out his website at http://losectrl-gaincommand.com.
If you would like to contribute a tutorial to iCodeBlog.com, contact me brandon@icodeblog.com
The final product of this tutorial should look something like this:

Setting up the User Interface
The first thing we need to do is open up MainWindow.xib. …

October 13th, 2008 Posted by: - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

Finding your iPhone or iPod Touch Device ID

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If we’ve asked you to provide your iPhone or iTouch Device ID, here’s how:

Connect the device to your Mac or PC.
On the “Summary” tab in iTunes, click the “Serial Number” label. You’ll notice “Serial Number” changes to “Identifier”.
Click on “Edit” in the menu at the top and select “Copy”.
Now you can paste the device ID into an email.

October 12th, 2008 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - View Comments READ MORE

NDA Lifted

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It’s not exactly news, but Apple lifted their nda. We’re stoked to see that this platform might have the same potential for viral programming as other fav frameworks of ours.
More blog posts to come yielding helpful tidbits and tutorials for coding everyone’s favorite new platform.

October 9th, 2008 Posted by: - posted under:Articles - View Comments READ MORE

iPhone Programming Tutorial – Saving/Retrieving Data Using NSUserDefaults

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In this tutorial, I will be showing you how you can save and retrieve different types of data using the NSUserDefaults object.  Saving this way is great for when you want to save small amounts of data such as High Scores, Login Information, and program state.
Saving to the NSUserDefaults is great because it does not require any special database knowledge.  So if you don’t want/have an SQLite3 database for your app, this would be the way to go.
In this tutorial, …

October 3rd, 2008 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

No More iPhone Developer NDA

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It looks like iCodeBlog is no longer illegal! Lol.  Apple has just announced that they are doing away with their “F-ing” NDA (as it has been coined).  This is great news for developers as we can now talk safely in the open about development for the iPhone  without fear.
This pesky NDA has been annoying developers since the beginning of (iPhone Development) time.  Maybe now, we will start seeing some great books being published for iPhone development.
Source: Engaget

October 1st, 2008 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Articles - View Comments READ MORE