UITableViews drive a significant portion of iOS apps. Apple has provided some pretty great tools for developing decent looking apps based on them, but there are times when you might want to do something a little more stylish than what iOS provides. That’s when you...
A singleton is a way for developers to keep one and only one object of a class in existence for the entire lifecycle of an application; the nitpicky among you will note that there are portions of an app that might not have any instances of a singleton object, since it...
ARC (short for automatic reference counting) is one of the most talked about and interesting additions to the iOS developer toolchain. However, in recent conversations with other developers I’ve found that there are a lot of misconceptions surrounding the technology....
Writing apps an app is pretty hard, but supporting it is a lot harder I am finding. I have an app on the iOS App Store called Ghost Alert (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ghost-alert/id399830783?mt=8) and its sister app Ghost Alert Lite...
Web services are great especially when coupled with rich clients, such as the iPhone or any other competing smart devices. However, more and more there is a dark-side to connected apps: developers abusing the ubiquitous connectivity of these devices to avoid having to...
Under normal conditions a healthy rivalry among developers and users of different software platforms can lead to the betterment of both platforms; a classic example of this is the Mac OS X / Windows debate. However, there is something happening in the mobile arena,...
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