Mobile App Mastery

Add And Subtract Dates In Objective-C

mattjdrake — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:34:52 +0000

Here is the problem: your app works with dates and you would like to be able to find out what day came a week before, or is coming up in two years. There are a few ways to do this but the easiest by far is to use your user’s calendar along with the NSDateComponents Foundation class to figure out precisely what these date relationships are.

Interested? Check out my blog post about this at my blog. http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/add-and-subtract-dates-in-objective-c/1585/

Building Web Apps With Objective-C

mattjdrake — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:37:46 +0000

Did you know that you can make web apps with Objective-C? Here is the “hows” on Building Web Apps With Objective-C, or should I say, Objective-J!

Objective-What? Objective-J is a programming language that is based on Objective-C that is designed to work with web apps. The J comes from the idea that Objective-J is a higher level interface for Javascript. Javascript is kind of a mess, but when you put Objective-J on top of Javascript coding web apps can be an elegant experience.

Learn more by checking my full post at my blog. http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/building-web-apps-with-objective-c/1514/

Compiling Mac Apps With ARC From Terminal

mattjdrake — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:04:45 +0000

The other day, I was looking around for a simple way to just compile a text file for a simple Mac app. This isn’t something that you would do everyday but there are times when it’s nice to have the simplest bit of code out there without all the fuss involved with the XCode templates and everything else.

Here’s the simplest way to just compile a text file for a simple Mac app.
http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/compiling-mac-apps-with-arc-from-termina/1580/

Chapters 10, 11 and 12 Added To Beginning Objective-C Programming

mattjdrake — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:34:37 +0000

Latest Chapters of my Free eBook Recently Added. Chapters 10, 11 and 12 Added to Beginning Objective C Programming.

What’s In This Objective-C Programming Book?

The first section of this eBook has all the essential elements of programming that you need to learn before really moving on as an iOS developer. This is what you to look at if you never programmed before or if you have no idea how Objective-C works as a programming language.

Here are the chapter topics: http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/chapters-10-11-and-12-added-to-beginning-objective-c-programming/1529/

What Do You Want To Know About iPhone, iPad & iOS Development?

mattjdrake — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:43:20 +0000

Curious about what YOU as a reader want to know about iPhone, iPad, & iOS Development. Take a second to think about it and just respond to my post at my blog with a question. I’ll do my best to answer it or link you to a resource that will answer better than I can.

http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/what-do-you-want-to-know-about-iphone-ipad-ios-development/1572/

Cool iOS Design Resources

mattjdrake — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:40:09 +0000

Most programmers and software developers need a bit of help when it comes to the idea of design. Am I wrong? We get caught up, rightly so usually, in the notion of how to get things done. Implementation is our speciality.

But, guess what? Design is an important part of the development process. Here are some resources that you can explore to get just a little bit of help. http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/cool-ios-design-resources/1569/

Have You Seen These Mobile App Infrastructure Resources?

mattjdrake — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:41:16 +0000

Backend services that are hard and expensive to do on your own can be handed off to experts who will help manage these activities at low cost. Most of the time we as programmers try and do this all ourselves but that’s a mistake.

Here is my list of web based services that you can use for your mobile app business.
http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/have-you-seen-these-mobile-app-infrastructure-resources/1534/

Introduction To Core Graphics For iOS Apps

mattjdrake — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:50:39 +0000

Core Graphics is the system used by iOS to draw vector-like graphics on views. This is low level programming and expect to be doing lots of defining low level graphic entities like lines, circles and squares if you want to dip into this layer of iOS programming.

Here is a quick way to test out using core graphics.
http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/introduction-to-core-graphics-for-ios-apps/1562/

Here Is Everything You Need To Know About Storyboards!

mattjdrake — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:59:41 +0000

Storyboards are an fun new way to get your user interface up and running quick. Here is my collection of how to use storyboard blog posts that I think you will find very helpful.

http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/here-is-everything-you-need-to-know-about-storyboards/1537/

Add Twitter Support To Your iPhone App In 5 Steps

mattjdrake — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:14:28 +0000

Intrigue and interested in adding Twitter Support to your iPhone App?

Do you know how easy it is to give your users Twitter support in your app. This works like the email function in iOS apps – you will be able to present your user with a model view that is pre-populated with content that will become a tweet that will appear in your user’s timeline.

To learn more visit and check my full post at my blog.
http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/add-twitter-support-to-your-iphone-app-in-5-steps/1558/