Blog Tag: iPhone

• X-Code Programming: DIY Please Wait Bubble

  Published on: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 Author: Dave
  

  The default UIActivityIndicatorView that is native to X-Code is nice, but doesn’t always give the greatest user experience.  A great use for a UIActivityIndicatorView is to show a user that a web page is loading when you’re using a UIWebView.  [...]

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• Best Way to Check for an Empty NSString

  Published on: Monday, September 12th, 2011 Author: Dave
  

  When developing your iPhone apps, you’ll run into situations where you want to check to see if an NSString that is declared in another location is empty.  At first, you’d think it would be a simple check for nil. NSString* [...]

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• Don’t wait too long to test your app on the actual iPhone/iPad

  Published on: Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 Author: Dave
  

  Don’t wait too long to test your app on the actual iPhone/iPad. Apple’s done a great job with their development tools.  Within minutes of starting an app, an iPhone developer can be hammering away at code.  Their simulator is great.  [...]

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• Making Money from iPhone and Mobile Apps in 2011

  Published on: Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Author: BolderImage
  

  With over 350,000 iPhone apps on the market, plus thousands more for other mobile platforms, it’s not surprising that this is a hot market right now. If you have a great idea for an app and can create it, you [...]

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