Wow, can you believe that it has been almost 3 years since I started iCodeblog!? It seems like just yesterday, That I wrote my very first tutorial in July of 2008. Now, iCodeBlog has multiple authors, hundreds of tutorials, and over 5,000 readers per day!
As you know, a few things (to say the least) have changed since we first launched iCodeBlog in 2008 with the way we develop for the iOS platform. With that being said, …

Hey iCoders,
A bunch of us on iCodeBlog have been working on a big new mobile product for developers that we are going to release in the next two months or so. Currently we have something ready for iOS developers to mess around with and try within their own applications. We haven’t released any info on this product yet but I can tell you:
1. It makes mobile development faster.
2. It plays in the cloud.
3. You already know how to use …

Hey iCoders,
So last week I posted a rather lengthy breakdown of my week at WWDC. As part of that week I was able to schedule a One-On-One with an iOS App Review employee about an app I developed several months ago called 88 MPH. A while ago I was being contracted for a medical technology down in Carson City, CA; a small tech town about 20 miles or so south of San Francisco. I spend Mon – Wed there …

Hey iCoders,
So I was given the opportunity to attend WWDC this year, and as it was my first time, I thought I would give some of my thoughts for anyone who is planning on making it in 2012. So for some quick background, WWDC stands for the World Wide Developers Conference. It is Apple’s only public conference now that they are no longer a part of MacWorld. WWDC has been going on since 1995 and currently takes place in San …

Hey iCoders,
Short post today on a little tool I made for myself that is turning out to be very useful. This is a simple UIColor category which adds a class level initializer that accepts the color strings output from the Digital Color Meter application in OS X. I regularly make iOS apps which refer to design PDF documents. Many times designers don’t provide exact details to what colors are in the design. To get them I use the Digial Color …

Today I’m going to show you how to make a static library for iOS. We will make a simple library and use it in a separate project.
What’s a static library
Here is what wiki has to say:
In computer science, a static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and …

Hello, I’m Andy Yanok (Twitter) and I recently finished working on Friended for Facebook.  Many applications use Facebook for posting content from their respective applications, there could be infinite items that a developer would like to post to users feeds whilst using their applications but today we will be focusing on posting a link to a users feed.
In order to get started using the Facebook SDK & API’s you will need to download the latest copy of the …

This tutorial will show you how to automatically fill in CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString, when using Git.
This has been tested in Xcode 3.2.5 (Updates for Xcode 4 at the bottom)
Git Setup
First off you need a project that is checked into git, and is also tagged with an initial version number.
If you already have git setup for your project, skip down to XCode Setup
To locally setup up git, without a remote repository, after installing git, issue the following commands
cd into your project …

Devotees will remember that last year the team over here at iCodeBlog released a little iPad app called TweetMapper that showed a live stream of tweets coming down from 10 major cities. Well since then Twitter deprecated its support for XML and increased its support for better searching. As a result about a month ago we dusted the project off and went at completely rebuilding it. We added Core Data in, support for the now current streaming JSON output from …

Guest Bloggers
Hey iCoders! We are looking for some guest bloggers to write iOS tutorials, code snippets, tips, tricks, you name it for iCodeBlog.
How to apply:
1. Shoot an email to btreb@elctech.com with a link to your current blog (or iOS articles you have written)
2. We will check your stuff out and most likely give you contributor status to iCodeBlog
3. ???
4. Profit (OK, no profit (yet), but you get exposure(link your blog) AND the good feeling that you are contributing to the …