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Twitter Specific Keyboard – UIKeyboardTypeTwitter

John Muchow — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:52:19 +0000

Twitter Specific Keyboard – UIKeyboardTypeTwitter is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved In a series of previous posts I wrote about the integrated Twitter support that was introduced in iOS 5. If you are creating a custom control such as a UITextField or UITextView, there is a keyboard type specifically designed [...] Related posts:

iOS 5 : Customize UINavigationBar and UIBarButtonItem with the Appearance API

John Muchow — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:09:20 +0000

iOS 5 : Customize UINavigationBar and UIBarButtonItem with the Appearance API is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved In a previous post, UIImage and resizableImageWithCapInsets, I explained how to use the method resizableImageWithCapInsets in a UIImage object to set cap insets, which specify areas of an image that are not to [...] Related posts:

iOS 5 : UIImage and resizableImageWithCapInsets

iOS 5 : UIImage and resizableImageWithCapInsets

John Muchow — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:02:10 +0000

iOS 5 : UIImage and resizableImageWithCapInsets is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved I recently began writing a short example to learn more about the iOS 5 Appearance API and customizing UINavigationBar objects. The goal was to add a custom background, title and text to the navbar. Once I had this [...] Related posts:

iOS 5 : UIStepper Control

John Muchow — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:01:05 +0000

iOS 5 : UIStepper Control is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved There is a new pre-built control in iOS 5 for incrementing or decrementing a value, UIStepper. The control has two buttons aligned horizontally, one labeled with a plus (+) the other a minus (-). One nice feature is a [...] Related posts:

Simple Menus and Messages with UIActionSheet

John Muchow — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:21:24 +0000

Simple Menus and Messages with UIActionSheet is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved If you need to create a quick menu or present a user with a short message, you may want to consider a UIActionSheet as an option. This control will slide up from the bottom of the screen, and [...] Related posts:

Load and Access Custom Fonts

John Muchow — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:12:56 +0000

Load and Access Custom Fonts is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved It’s surprisingly easy to add custom fonts to your iOS apps. Begin by adding the font(s) to your project, (drag/drag into the resources folder in the Project Window). Next, add a property in the project plist named UIAppFonts, which [...] Related posts:

Using Font Macros for Consistency

John Muchow — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:03:35 +0000

Using Font Macros for Consistency is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved In most applications, keeping with one or two fonts is a good design choice. To this end, I often include a few simple macros to keep fonts consistent, easily change font size as well as emphasis (bold). Below are [...] Related posts:

Deselect Table Row with Animation

John Muchow — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:27:16 +0000

Deselect Table Row with Animation is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved Here is a quick little trick to automatically deselect a table row once tapped by a user. With the approach below you can also adjust the length of the delay (in seconds) before the deselection occurs. When working with [...] Related posts:

Creating Clickable Hyperlinks from a URL, Phone Number or Address

John Muchow — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 03:12:59 +0000

Creating Clickable Hyperlinks from a URL, Phone Number or Address is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved The following tips shows a quick way to create clickable hyperlinks using a UITextView. The trick is to set the dataDetectorTypes property to specify the data type you are after, from there, upon a [...] Related posts:

Creating Circular and Infinite UIScrollViews

John Muchow — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:09:21 +0000

Creating Circular and Infinite UIScrollViews is protected by Copyright © MobileDeveloperTips.com 2008-2012 • All Rights Reserved Editor’s Note: This post was written by Jacob Haskins, Director of Mobile Development at Accella. Thanks to Jon Stroz of Accella for reaching out to me to share this idea. When creating paging functionality for iPhone apps, there may [...] Related posts: