Comments on: iPhone JSON Flickr Tutorial – Part 1

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:19:28 +0000

Ok, I created a new application from scratch using XCode 4; I made sure to NOT select a storyboard and I also unchecked automatic reference counting. Next I added a GROUP or folder to my project called ‘Classes’ and I copied the JSON folder from the download into the Classes folder. I compiled the project which popped up the #error and I entered my code from Flickr. I also copied my secret into the associated place. I ran the project and saw in the console window several image URLs. I copied a couple of these into the browser and it appears this is working…..NOW, how to I convert this library to work in XCode 4 while using the latest features of XCode like automatic reference counting and the storyboard.

Thanks all!

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:30:53 +0000

Is there an updated version of this? I am getting a TON of errors when trying to get this working with XCode 4.

By: Kyoung

Kyoung — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:14:26 +0000

I’ve tried to run your projects many times, but it does not work out properly. All I changed is replacing the flicker api key and commenting out ‘#error’. Though it does build without any issue, it just blacked out when I run it on the iPhone 5.0 simulator.

Is there any change in the project? or Do I have to do something else?

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:42:11 +0000

When using Xcode, you will always need to check the build set in the project with the version(s) you have installed. In other words, the project was created some time ago, with an older SDK. Chances are you are using a much new SDK, so you will need to change that in the build settings to match you SDK version.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:16:00 +0000

Hi John this tutorial is great! I downloaded the source files, and see that (for me at least) the following are missing:
under Products folder: JSONFlickr.app
under Frameworks folder: Foundation.framework , CoreGraphics.framework, and UIKit.framework

It also show “Base SDK Missing” in the Xcode dropdown top left.

I’m new to Xcode and may be overlooking something.

Thx!

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:59:26 +0000

Here is a post that discusses initialization, it may provide some insight.

By: Rajat Agarwal

Rajat Agarwal — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:59:41 +0000

Hi, first off, great tutorial!! I must say I am new to iOS development so please bear with me:)

I do not really understand the function of the -(id)init method. I mean, could you not initialize the arrays in the viewWillLoad method? And whats the need to alloc memory for the view? And after that you call the [self searchFlickrPhotos:@"iPhone"]; function. Why do you do so? The user didn’t want to do so or am I missing something?

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:21:22 +0000

Yes, there are probably a number of ways to extend the code and make things more robust if you were to use this within a more complete project. Often times I write short examples with the primary intention to demonstrate a concept and keep things simple…

By: Johanisma

Johanisma — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:35:44 +0000

Hey John,

Thanks for the tutorial !

Just one suggestion : wouldn’t it be nicer to create a Photo class with attributes title, smallImageData and largeImageUrl and then having an NSMutableArray of those instead of storing everything in three separate NSMutableArrays ?

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:42:05 +0000

Which link no longer seems to work?