Archive for the ‘iPhone Programming Tutorials’ Category
The Best Resources In iOS Development (For 2 Weeks Aug.14-27)
An interesting time is approaching for iPhone and iPad developers as an Apple announcement is coming this week, and already new devices have started showing up in iOS. It looks like the Sept. 1st announcement could bring support for the Verizon network, a new iPod touch with camera, or Apple iTV – maybe even all of those things.
Here are the most popular iPhone and iPad programming resources from this site in terms of sharing and visits for the 2 weeks August 14th to August 27th:
The Best Resources In iOS Development July 19th 2010 (For Week 07/10-07/16)
Thanks for visiting, things have continued to accelerate in the iPhone and iPad developer blogging world. It seems like each week there is more and more great content being put out. I am continuing to look through, and filter for the good stuff to share with you, and I still have a lot to look through.
How To Add Turn Based Multiplayer Into Your iPhone Games Easily With Openfeint
I am a huge fan of multiplayer games. Especially on the iPhone… in fact at one time I did consider starting an app review site just for multiplayer games. The nature of multiplayergaming could also cause your game to go viral.
What I don’t like about multiplayer games is handling all the small details such as building a lobby for the players to find each other through, and making sure all the small details work. And in the end with an indie title you may not even know if there will be players who will play it multiplayer.
4 Ridiculously Handy Custom iPhone UI Tricks and Libraries
The iPhone has a great UI library, but there are still times when you think to yourself when programming — why didn’t they include this feature?
Whenever that thought pops into my head (probably because I’m an efficiency freak who likes to do things in the least possible time) and I can’t easily find the answer in Apple’s documentation I look to see if someone has done it before, and shared their results.
Screw Multitasking: How To Make Your iOS 4 Apps Exit For Real
This post is in response to a question on the iPhone Dev SDK forums about how to make your apps not run in the background now that multitasking has finally appeared on the iPhone.
Multi-tasking can be great, but it has added some complexity to programming on the iPhone. For many apps there really is no advantage. For instance, does the “That’s What She Said” button really need to stay in memory?