May 2011 – Interactive Logic

Easy Audio Playback With AVAudioPlayer – Tutorial [Mobile Orchard]

Can you guess what I’ve been doing lately? Here’s another great tutorial from Dan Grigsby of Mobile Orchard, this time on playing audio with the AVAudioPlayer in the iOS SDK… Tutorial: Easy Audio Playback With AVAudioPlayer The iPhone SDK’s AVFoundation framework includes AVAudioPlayer, an easy, feature rich, Objective-C based way of playing audio files. …

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Fixing the Mac OS X Zoom Button

Annoyances, Mac, User Experience, User Interface Design / By evankstone

I love Mac OS X, but there’s been something that has always annoyed me about mac resizing behavior, even back to the days when I started using Macs with System 6.x, and that’s the Zoom button behavior. I get what it’s supposed to do, but I never agreed with it and never used it for that …

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Monitoring AVAudioRecorder Input on iOS

iOS SDK / By evankstone

For a project I’m working on, I needed to know how to monitor the input level using AVAudioRecorder. Thankfully, this post from Dan Grigsby was very helpful in setting up the polling mechanism (though you might not guess it from the title!): Tutorial: Detecting When A User Blows Into The Mic If, a couple of …

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Selectors in Objective-C

iOS SDK / By evankstone

I ran into this one yesterday since I needed to create a delegate method that took a couple arguments, and it wasn’t clear to me what the correct syntax was when one had more than one. So thanks to Adam Rosenfield on Stackoverflow for this one (he helped clear up another issue I was researching …

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Month: May 2011