Archive for August, 2009
iSimulate – Testing Multi-Touch, Accelerometer and GPS using Xcode Simulator
I recently spent a few hours working with iSimulate, an interesting combination of an iPhone application and a packaged library you add to an Xcode project. iSimulate provides a unique solution to the lack of support in the Xcode simulator for exercising multi-touch events, accelerometer data as well as GPS location information. The timing for [...]
Is Application Running on iPhone or iPod touch
If you ever need to know whether your application is running on an iPod touch or an iPhone, the answer is as close as this one line of code: NSString *deviceType = [UIDevice currentDevice].model; To get the model of the device as a localized string:
Gotcha: Hiding the Status Bar
Okay, so this is a well-worn topic. However, there are a few potential gotchas that are worth visiting. To begin, if you want to hide the status bar in a running application, it’s quite simple – this technique is handy for things that are best shown fullscreen, for example, I used this technique when previewing [...]
Google Friend Connect on iPhone Developer Tips
I’ve added two Google Friend Connect gadgets to the iPhone Developer Tips blog (lower right sidebar). Thought this would make for an interesting experiment to see if/how Friend Connect might be a useful addition to the blog. The Popular Posts gadget seems an interesting approach for helping to narrow in on interesting and popular content. [...]
Sliding Views On and Off Screen – Part 1 – Creating a Reusable Sliding Message Widget
Editor’s Note: The second part of this series Sliding Views On and Off Screen – Part 2 – Read Contributions shows two additional ways to work with sliding views, one using Interface Builder, another using a UIView. In the previous post on the Bikini.com Supermodel party application, I mentioned that I was planning to show [...]
