Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’
Great Step-By-Step Store Kit in-App Purchase Tutorial
The other day I shared an article that pointed to a couple of in app purchase tutorials, while those tutorials were good they did leave something to be desired in the overall layout and formatting.
I just found another terrific tutorial that lays everything out in a very clear step-by-step format that I find significantly easier to follow than those shared previously.
The tutorial is: In App Purchases A Full Walkthrough
Awesome Fun Music-Synced Animation With Video And Code
Found this great tutorial on creating a music synced animation. The dancing effect is created by using a sound meter, and adjusting the size of the animation based on the sound level. The end result looks terrific.
Check out the video:
The author was able to create this effect by using the open source Cocos2D engine for iPhone along with the CocosDenshion sound engine (included with Cocos2D iPhone). It’s a really fun effect, and thanks to the author of the tutorial for providing full source code.
iPhone Reverse Geocoding With The Mapkit
Something that I’ve been asked a few times is about how to incorporate reverse goecoding into iphone apps. Previously you needed to use an outside service, but with the Mapkit that functionality is now built in. For those unfamiliar with therm, reverse geocoding is the process of taking the latitude and longitude of a location, and translating that to the name of the nearest known location.
It’s now a very simple process thanks to MKReverseGeocoderDelegate.
Push Notification Server Tutorial
Hi everyone, sorry about the frequency of posts as of late, I was out of town for a few days, and accepted a ft position for the next couple of months, so I am currently overwhelmed.
Something I’ve been looking into mainly for testing purposes is push notification. Now, push notification can really mess up an app so you have to be able to deal with it.
Creating a push notification server can be complex especially if you’re not a web developer.
Global Variables in iPhone Objective-C
If you studied any programming in school you were probably told to never use global variables because ultimately it can cause you end up with a messy slob of code that is difficult to maintain, and this holds true in iPhone Objective-C.