Posts tagged as: objective-c

Adding Local Weather Conditions To Your App (Part 1/2: Implementing CoreLocation)

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Knowing the latitude and longitude of your users can open up all kinds of possibilities in your apps. In an upcoming post, we’ll be discussing how you can use your user’s location to determine their local weather conditions and forecast. But for now, we’re going to focus on Part 1 of this two part tutorial: CoreLocation.
Apple’s done a great job of abstracting GPS, Cellular Triangulation, and Wifi Access Point location lookups into CoreLocation; making it extremely easy to …

September 3rd, 2010 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

UITextField – A Complete API Overview

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The UITextField is probably one of the most commonly used UI controls on the iPhone. It is the primary method of user input via the keyboard and provides a great deal of additional functionality.
With the success of our las API tutorial on NSArray, I thought I would do another walkthrough, this time on UITextField. I will be explaining all of the properties for it as well as bringing up some functionality that you may not have known about.
Text Attributes
The …

January 4th, 2010 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

Objective C 2.0: An Intro – Part 2

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Introduction
Hello everyone, welcome to my fourth screeencast. This is the second in my series introducing readers to Objective C. Let’s dive in.
Skill Level Beginner
Source Code

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Screencast
I film myself coding out the entire sample project for each post. I personally think going through the Screencast is the best way to learn. But feel free to look through the slides and text if that suites you better.
iCodeBlog Tutorial: Objective C 2.0 An …

June 29th, 2009 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE

Objective C 2.0: An Intro – Part 1

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Introduction
Hello everyone, welcome to my second screeencast. This is going to be the first in a series of screencasts that are focused at people just beginning to work with Objective C and Cocoa. For many reasons the beginnings of learning cocoa development can be frusterating and lonely to a point. Only now is Objective C and Cocoa development gaining the kind of momentum to drive the creation of resources such as iCodeBlog and others.
Skill Level Beginner
This is not going to …

June 18th, 2009 Posted by: (ELC) - posted under:Tutorials - View Comments READ MORE