Tag Archives: Cocoa Touch

Objective-C 2.2 Features

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Steven Fisher

Martin Pilkington (Code Collector Pro) on Objective-C 2.2 features. He covers the code reduction features of the new runtime. These are coming to “modern” Apple runtimes, meaning 64-bit Mac and iPhone.

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Control and configuration of applications through Info.plist

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Matt Gallagher (Cocoa with Love): Control and configuration of applications through Info.plist. I hadn’t heard of UIRequiresPersistentWiFi before, so this will be helpful to me.

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How to make your iPhone application start faster

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Steven Fisher

James Thomson (PCalc): How to make your iPhone application start faster

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Three20

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Steven Fisher

I downloaded the latest version of Three20 today by Joe Hewitt. I read through some of the code and ran through the included “catalog” demo. If you’ve used the Facebook application, you’ve seen early versions of a lot of these … Continue reading →

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Die you damn, dirty tab bar

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Justin Williams: Die you damn, dirty tab bar.

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The impact of the iPhone 3GS RAM increase

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Steven Fisher

John Casasanta (Tap tap tap) on the impact of the iPhone 3GS RAM increase. Pretty memory usage graphs.

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NSURL synchronous requests

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Can’t verify this yet, but something I want to investigate later: Chris Parker (who “works for a fruit company in Cupertino”) via Twitter: Hey iPhone devs: sending synchronous requests via NSURL on the main thread is a good way to … Continue reading →

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iPhone OS 3.0 Adoption Rate

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Tapbots on iPhone OS 3 adoptions among their active users: We’re currently running at an overall 75% upgrade rate which is pretty insane considering the number of devices and the fact that its only been 5 days.

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Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Trust, hostility, and the human side of Apple: It was a giant middle finger to iPhone developers. And that’s the closing impression that Apple gave us for WWDC. Clearly, they had absolutely no interest in fielding even a single question … Continue reading →

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imageNamed is evil

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Another iPhone programming gotcha, this one involving UIImage’s imageNamed: method. Worth noting for later.

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