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 …
One of the more annoying things about iOS is its notification system. Modal alerts are so arcane, intrusive and annoying, I am actually shocked that they are still the standard method of notification in iOS as of version 4… Looks like there are some underground movements (requiring jailbreaking, of course) to change that. Here’s a …
Thanks to Jeff LaMarche for this. iPhone Development: Attributed Strings in iOS: Ten months ago when the original iPad shipped, Apple released iOS 3.2, and for the first time, iOS developers had access to NSAttributedString and NSMutableAttributedString, objects designed to hold strings along with font, paragraph, and style information. We no longer had to resort …
It was time to clean house a bit, so I wanted to remove all the currently installed applications in the iPhone Simulator. Turns out there’s a very simple way to do it… 1. With the iPhone Simulator running, click on the iOS Simulator application menu. 2. Click “Reset Contents and Settings…”. – A confirmation dialog …
iOS Simulator QuickTip: Removing all installed applications. Read More »
I ran into an interesting problem today. It was really basic and embarassing, so naturally I figured I’d go public with it… Typically I use the alloc–initWithFormat–release way of creating strings, but today I used the NSString stringWithFormat factory method to generate a new NSString. Of course at the end of my method that was …
Yes, stringWithFormat returns an autoreleased NSString. Read More »