Tag Archives: iOS

Updating An sqlite CoreData Backing Store On iOS

Something that has unpleasantly surprised many an iOS developer is that to update the data in an sqlite database that is the backing store for CoreData you need to do more than just make a new release of your app … Continue reading

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Handy Scripts For Localizing iOS XIB Files

Recently I have been working on more and more iOS projects that require localization. One of the things that I find needs to be done fairly often while implementing localized XIB files is to extract all the strings from your … Continue reading

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How To Combine Two Images In iOS

A question that has been asked a lot on my iOS Still Image Capture With AVCaptureSession post is how to combine the overlay image that is shown with the image that is being captured by the camera. The more general … Continue reading

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The UDID Apocalypse and: How I Learned To Cut Back On NSUserDefaults And Love The Keychain

Edit: To be honest, I will still use NSUserDefaults for a lot of things, and you should too, I just liked the Doctor Strangelove reference. By now you have probably heard that Apple is deprecating support for attaining a UDID … Continue reading

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OAuth, Twitter & iOS 5: “It looks like someone already used the token information you provided.”

I’ve been scratching my head most of the day trying to figure out why I was able to authorize with Twitter perfectly fine in my app running on pre-iOS 5 software but not in iOS 5. There are quite a … Continue reading

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Genome MIDI Sequencer For iPad

This announcement made my day. Today White Noise Audio released their Genome MIDI Sequencer application for iPad. They claim, “It’s simply the best app on the iPad for controlling all your MIDI gear.” From the looks of things I would … Continue reading

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Capturing Touches On A View Inside A Scroll View

I recently needed to create a vertically scrolling UIScrollView with a child sub view on which I needed to capture touches. Working with this kind of layering of views and the responder chain can be tricky but it is not … Continue reading

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iOS Camera Overlay Example Using AVCaptureSession

I made a post back in 2009 on how to overlay images, buttons and labels on a live camera view using UIImagePicker. Well since iOS 4 came out there has been a better way to do this and it is … Continue reading

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