tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574Wed, 11 Sep 2024 23:57:21 +0000iPhoneiOSTutorialiOS 5DevelopmentDev BriefCocos2DGameXCode 4DrawCore GraphicsDevBriefQuartz2DARCFeastQuartz 2DCore PlotDebugObjective-COpenGLXCodeiPadAppCGContextCodeCore DataGLKitGraphHow ToObjective COpen SourceOpenGL ESUITableViewiCloudAPNsAccess Image Property UIImageApple Push Nofification ServicesBlocksCALayerCocoaCore ImageCustomization UIDateFlashGDBGUIHUDInstrumentsMVCNSDateFormatterNeHeObjCPDFProgramRPGRay WenderlichStoryboardStyleTDDTestTest DrivenTiled MapsTimeTwitterUIUIAlertViewUIKitUIViewAVPlayerAVPlayerLayerAVQueuePlayerAchievementActionAdWhirlAlbumAndroidAnimationApp StoreAppearanceAppleArchitectureBetaBlenderBreakpointBuildCAEMitterCAEmitterCellCCSpriteCCTouchDispatcherCGImageSourceCIContextCIFilterClassCommandCommand LineCommentConditionCustomDatabaseDelayDemoDesignDistributionDocumentDocumentationDynamicEXC_BAD_ACCESSEssentialExportFMDBFilterFocus OrderFrameGKAchievementGLSLGame CenterGoogle App EngineIPAImageImportInheritInternationalInvisibleJSONKeyboardLatitudeLearnListLiteLocalizationLocationLongitudeMAC AddressMKNetworkKitMKiCloudSyncMacMeasurementMemory leakMenusModelMonkey JumpNSDateNSOperationNSUserDefaultNavigationNetworkNumberParticlePerformancePhotoPhotoshopPhysicsPhysicsEditorPinchPointerPopoverViewProgress IndicatorProjectQuartzCoreRSAResize ImageReusableSBTableAlertSSHSaveScreen CaptureScrollingSecurityShaderShooterShooting GameSlideSortSource CodeSpaceSplit ViewSpriteSqliteStar RatingStarterStatic LibrarySubmitTWRequestTWTweetComposeViewControllerTableViewTemplateTestFlightText InputTexturePackerThread SafeTime ProfilerTipsToolsTower DefenseTwitter APITwitter FrameworkUIGestureRecognizerUIGraphicsGetCurrentContextUISplitViewControllerUIStepperUITextFieldUniversaldrawRectiPhone 4Slibssh2plistprotocolrecursiveDescriptionresizableImageWithCapInsetsstorageiOS Development Articles from Internet. Try to collect lots of useful and funny things to help programmers(most important for myself ^_^).http://devbrief.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (wcrane)Blogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-9159107751379791295Mon, 29 Oct 2012 06:27:00 +00002012-10-28T23:27:44.160-07:00Creating an iPad flip-clock with Core Animation: As part of the sliding puzzle game I’m developing for the iPhone and iPad (well, I can’t survive on the profits from BattleFingers forever), I looked for a way to represent a numeric score and time display in an interesting way. One of the nicer visual effects you could use for this is the “flip-card clock” style, where each number consists of a http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/10/creating-ipad-flip-clock-with-core.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-7392700505901854118Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:21:00 +00002012-10-08T03:21:04.835-07:00Getting symbolicate stack call in logs: In last version of Xcode we can’t see full crash log. For resolving this issue we can use next solution: 1. add function to your main class 1 2 3 4 5void uncaughtExceptionHandler(NSException *exception) {     NSLog(@"CRASH: %@", exception);     NSLog(@"Stack Trace: %@", [exception callStackSymbols]);     // Internal errorhttp://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/10/getting-symbolicate-stack-call-in-logs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-3540546217731069360Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:18:00 +00002012-10-08T03:18:14.129-07:00Debugging Core Data Objects: If you’re working on an app that uses Core Data, it’s inevitable that you’ll end up in the debugger and need to dig around in the object graph. You’ll also quickly realize that Core Data’s -description of an object isn’t terribly helpful: (lldb) po myListObj (List *) $19 = 0x08054ac0 <List: 0x8054ac0> (entity: List; id: 0x8074280 <x-coredata://http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/10/debugging-core-data-objects.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-5182355878486674685Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:09:00 +00002012-10-08T03:09:50.026-07:00Second Set of TouchTargets Code Published: All of the code needed to scan in, draw, and manage text strings from font sheets is in and has been published. Chapter 4: Say “Hello, World!”, OpenGL starts us off with a walkthrough of what we want to accomplish with the new font scanner, and how it will work conceptually. Chapter 5: Building the Importer walks us through the actual code involved in http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/10/second-set-of-touchtargets-code.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-4808826616219358396Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:19:00 +00002012-02-07T05:19:24.263-08:00How To Build a Monkey Jump Game Using Cocos2D, PhysicsEditor & TexturePacker Part 3: This is a post by special contributor Andreas Loew, the creator of TexturePacker and PhysicsEditor.Create this vertical scrolling platformer with Cocos2D!Welcome to the final part of the Monkey Jump tutorial! In this series, we are creating a fun vertical scrolling platformer with Cocos2D, TexturePacker and http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-build-monkey-jump-game-using_07.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-915690101057339158Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:22:00 +00002012-02-04T16:24:20.484-08:00Cocos2DDevelopmentGameHow ToPhysicsHow To Build a Monkey Jump Game Using Cocos2D, PhysicsEditor & TexturePacker Part 2: This is a post by special contributor Andreas Loew, the creator of TexturePacker and PhysicsEditor. Create this vertical scrolling platformer with Cocos2D! Welcome back to the Monkey Jump tutorial! In this series, we are creating a fun vertical scrolling platformer with Cocos2D, TexturePacker and http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-build-monkey-jump-game-using_04.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-101255743908024524Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:20:00 +00002012-02-04T16:21:13.919-08:00Cocos2DGameiPhoneMonkey JumpPhysicsEditorTexturePackerHow To Build a Monkey Jump Game Using Cocos2D, PhysicsEditor & TexturePacker Part 1 This is a post by special contributor Andreas Loew, the creator of TexturePacker and PhysicsEditor. In this tutorial, youll learn how to make a game about a monkey having a rough day. He’s just minding his own business, but these crazy objects keep falling from the sky! To see what I mean, check out this http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-build-monkey-jump-game-using.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-3917378207152727684Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:13:00 +00002012-02-04T16:14:22.560-08:00DebugGDBrecursiveDescriptionUIViewDebugging with GDB: Print-Object and UIView recursiveDescription: In the post Debugging with GDB: Introduction to Commands, Print and Print-Object I covered the basics of the command line inteface in GDB. In this post I’ll show you a trick to print out the entire view hierarchy for UIView objects. In Objective-C, all objects (derived from NSObject) have a description method, which returns an http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/02/debugging-with-gdb-print-object-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-2858441729904776294Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:24:00 +00002012-01-17T22:24:57.688-08:00How to Make a Game Like Jetpack Joyride Using LevelHelper & SpriteHelper – Part 1: This is a post by special contributor Bogdan Vladu, an iOS application developer and aspiring game developer living in Bucharest, Romania.Learn how to create a game like Jetpack Joyride with LevelHelper and SpriteHelper!In this tutorial series, we will create a game similar to Jetpack Joyride using Cocos2D and http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-make-game-like-jetpack-joyride.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-2396430466529318232Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:39:00 +00002012-01-12T16:39:18.544-08:00Game Analytics 101: This is a post by Ben Chong, an aspiring iOS game developer living in Indiana. Learn how to add analytics into your Cocos2D games!Hi folks! In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can easily integrate analytics into your Cocos2D games. By the end of this post, you’ll know how to use analytics to see and understand how players are interacting with your games, in http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/01/game-analytics-101.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-5369915778747138984Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:54:00 +00002012-01-11T20:55:18.400-08:00CommandGDBiPhoneXCodeDebugging with GDB: Introduction to Commands, Print and Print-Object: GDB is the debugging system built into Xcode. Xcode handles much of the interaction with GDB to provide support for breakpoints, stepping through/over code, wowever, GBD also provides a command line that you can use to work directly with the debugger. This tutorial walks through the basics of the command line interface along http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/01/debugging-with-gdb-introduction-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-7334578886580329302Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:43:00 +00002012-01-11T03:43:16.493-08:00iPhoneLatitudeLocationLongitude How to get Current Latitude and Longitude in iPhone On January 10, 2012, in Miscellaneous, by Sushant In this application we will see how to get Current latitude and longitude using GPRS in the iPhone. So let see how it will worked. My last post you can get from here (attached the previous post link). Step 1: Open the Xcode, Create a new project http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-get-current-latitude-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-4776723415727794795Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:51:00 +00002012-01-06T17:52:42.918-08:00Core GraphicsDevelopmentDrawiOS 5PDFQuartz 2DHow To Create a PDF with Quartz 2D in iOS 5 Tutorial Part 2: This is a blog post by iOS Tutorial Team member Tope Abayomi, an iOS developer and Founder of App Design Vault, your source for iPhone App Design. Learn how to create a PDF programmatically! Welcome to the second part of the tutorial series on how to generate a PDF using Quartz 2D! In part one, we set up an app framework for the http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-create-pdf-with-quartz-2d-in-ios_06.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-5139504655941080938Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:06:00 +00002012-01-04T18:07:38.729-08:00DevelopmentHow ToiOS 5PDFQuartz 2DTutorialHow To Create a PDF with Quartz 2D in iOS 5 Tutorial Part 1: This is a blog post by iOS Tutorial Team member Tope Abayomi, an iOS developer and Founder of App Design Vault, your source for iPhone App Design. Learn how to create a PDF programmatically! Sometimes in your apps you might want to generate a PDF with data from the app for your users. For example, imagine you had an app that allowedhttp://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-create-pdf-with-quartz-2d-in-ios.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-4641692038402091479Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:09:00 +00002012-01-03T18:09:50.704-08:00iPhonelibssh2RSASSHSaving RSA keys in files from iPhone applicationThis is my first post which I wanted to write after I get some experience in generating RSA keys on iPhone. I hope it can help some people to avoid troubles which we got while working with RSA keys.This post describes how to create RSA-keys in iPhone-application. In Apple documentation we can find how to make key pair with usage of standard http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2012/01/saving-rsa-keys-in-files-from-iphone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-2634241138219479741Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:56:00 +00002011-12-30T19:58:39.353-08:00Core DataDev BriefDevelopmentiPhoneTutorialiPhone Development – core data relationships tutorial part 1: I’m going to start a short series on Core Data relationships and maybe throw in some general Core Data stuff too. Here in part one we’re just going to set our app up with core data and add two entities with a simple one to one relationship between them. A one to one relationship means that for every Fruit there will be one source and http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/iphone-development-core-data.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-2858750597563586888Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:50:00 +00002011-12-30T19:51:54.896-08:00Core DataDevelopmentiPhoneTutorialiPhone App Development Tutorial – Core Data part 2 – One to Many Relationship: In this tutorial we will look at creating a one to many relationship in core data. It’s really very easy and not that much different than creating the one to one relationship. The difference comes in how the relationship allows the entities to interact with each other. In part one we had two entities, Fruit and Sourcehttp://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/iphone-app-development-tutorial-core.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-1428715739251131620Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:51:00 +00002011-12-29T15:51:45.215-08:00BlocksCGContextDevelopmentDrawdrawRectiOSiPhoneObjC Using blocks for drawing to avoid subclassing in Objective-C It is very common for a designer to ask for a 1 pixel tall bar here, or a small gradient there. This is a small request that isn’t very hard, right? Subclass UIView, override drawRect and do the drawing using Core Graphics. But every time you do this you need to add a file to your project. And all this file does is include 1 http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/using-blocks-for-drawing-to-avoid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-1579368982211367558Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:04:00 +00002011-12-29T15:52:38.975-08:00AppearanceDesigniOS 5iPhoneHow To Make Your App Stand Out With The New iOS 5 Appearance API: This is a guest post by +Tope who is Vault Overseer at App Design Vault where you get stunning iPhone App Design templates for developers with a budget or lack of good design contacts. The App Store with over half a million Apps is now a crowded place. To succeed, your app needs to stand out both in design and http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-make-your-app-stand-out-with-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-3656758945030141878Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:28:00 +00002011-12-28T19:01:06.230-08:00Dev BriefDevelopmentiOSTutorialUniversalBuilding a Universal Framework for iOS: Apple has invested quite a bit of time into making it easy to compile for a number of different architectures in XCode. For instance, compiling a library into its armv6, armv7, and i386 variants is just a matter of specifying the supported architecture types. However, there isn’t a built-in mechanism to take the binaries built for the various architectureshttp://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/building-universal-framework-for-ios.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-1510899339815760346Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:38:00 +00002011-12-29T15:56:59.950-08:00DevelopmentInternationaliOSiPhoneKeyboardListGet List of Installed International Keyboards: The NSUserDefaults object is typically used to save/restore your application related preferences, configuration data, etc – see Write and Read User Preferences for more information. In addition to application specifics, there is a system wide default list that is available to all applications, accessible using the class method standardUserDefaults http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/get-list-of-installed-international.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-3560337827741771994Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:42:00 +00002011-12-26T18:44:31.427-08:00ARCDev BriefDevelopmentiPhoneObjCObjective CTutorialMigrating your code to Objective-C ARC: Recently, Apple introduced several new developer stuff including Xcode 4, ARC, LLVM Compiler 3.0 and iOS 5. From some of the questions on Stack overflow, I could understand that, most of the ARC related confusions arise due to the fact that, developers don’t know if “ABC” is a feature/restriction of LLVM 3.0 or iOS 5 or ARC. Retain cycles, auto-release http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/migrating-your-code-to-objective-c-arc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-1639714084156441427Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:07:00 +00002011-12-22T23:09:33.198-08:00CCTouchDispatcherCocos2DDev BriefGameiPhoneTutorialBuild a Caterpillar Game with Cocos2D: Movement and Missiles: This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Build a Caterpillar Game with Cocos2DThis is the fifth installment of our Cocos2D tutorial series on cloning Centipede for iOS. Make sure you have completed the previous parts before beginning. Last Time… In the last tutorial, we discussed the AI of the caterpillar. You learned how to movehttp://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/build-caterpillar-game-with-cocos2d.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-2725607742116288654Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:55:00 +00002011-12-21T15:55:17.629-08:00iOS 5iPhoneSecurity Basic Security in iOS 5 Tutorial Part 1 This is a post by Chris Lowe, an iOS application developer and aspiring game developer living in San Antonio, Texas. He warns that this tutorial is pretty Epic in length, but promises you’ll learn a thing or two along the way. :] Learn how to store passwords securely in the Keychain! One of the most important aspects of software development also http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/basic-security-in-ios-5-tutorial-part-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4496016368000840574.post-4020212375627511107Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:22:00 +00002011-12-20T19:23:53.191-08:00AppDev BriefiPhoneNavigationStoryboardUsing Storyboards To Make Navigation Based iPhone Apps: Over the past few weeks I’ve been doing a series on using the new storyboard feature in XCode for iOS apps. The short story here is that we can now compose our iOS apps in a completely new way when we are coding apps in iOS 5. Storyboards are not backward compatible. Today, I’m going to show you how to using storyboards to create a http://devbrief.blogspot.com/2011/12/using-storyboards-to-make-navigation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (wcrane)0