Category Archives: iPhone
Quick Hits: UIActionSheet cancel button strange behaviour
I just got bit by this and fixed it thanks to this StackOverflow post. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1197746/uiactionsheet-cancel-button-strange-behaviour Long story short, if your launch an action sheet in a view that lives in a UITabBarController, the “hit” box for the cancel button gets … Continue reading
Quick Hits: Unit Testing iPhone Apps
I have a few things to add to the woefully incomplete official documentation on setting up automated tests in your iPhone apps: You need to add your main application executable target as a direct dependency of the test target, so … Continue reading
UINavigationController Tricks
For an iPhone UI I’m developing, I need to have one UINavigationController nested inside another, and to have the inner UINavigationController’s events push a view on to the outer one’s stack. CocoaTouch didn’t give this to me for free, but … Continue reading
iPhone OS 3.0 GM Seed installation steps via iTunes & XCode
I couldn’t find these instructions in the iPhone Development portal, so I figured i’d share them with you here. Once you download the appropriate GM seed, here’s how it’s done (I’m assuming you’ve already designated your phone as a dev … Continue reading
Quick Hits:Deploying iPhone projects to your iPhone/iPod Touch
This process sucks. Period. To get you through the suckage, I found this article with clear and useful steps. If you’re becoming an iPhone/iPod Touch developer, this is something you NEED to read. The article presents the steps of the … Continue reading
Quick Hits: A great FAQ for iPhone game developers
I came across this video from Brian Greenstone, the president and CEO of Pangea Software. You might remember him from such iPhone games as Enigmo, Cro-Mag Rally, or Bugdom 2. He’s made a video answering “10,000 ft view” questions about … Continue reading
Google Maps events in Mobile Safari and PhoneGap for iPhone
Having trouble getting your Google Maps div to respond to events like you want in Mobile Safari or a PhoneGap app for iPhone? So was I. Disabling pinch-zoom is simple enough, but getting a finger drag to (a) not move … Continue reading
Resolving the CodeSign error in Xcode when building new iPhone projects
Quick tip: if you’re just getting started with iPhone app development and trying to build and run an iPhone app project using the iPhone simulator in Xcode and you’re getting an error that looks like: CodeSign error: Code Signing Identity … Continue reading