Paging With Collection Views (Part 1)
dec 13,
2012
Since finalising the iOS 6 changes for Learning Tree’s Building iPhone® and iPad® Applications: Extended Features course, I’ve been taking the opportunity to do something different (!) and experiment with the new collection view. It’s fast becoming one of my favourite iOS controls! When I first read the description and tried it on the iOS […]
Top 10 Developer Features in iOS 6
okt 2,
2012
The new features of iOS 6 from a user’s point of view are well documented and well reviewed so I don’t intend to go over the same ground here. Having spent a large part of the last couple of weeks watching WWDC 2012 videos and playing with some of the new features, this is my […]
Pull to Refresh
sep 24,
2012
Pull to refresh has become a classic, almost cliched, way of initiating a refresh operation in an iOS app. Originally part of the Tweetie app that ultimately became Twitter’s official iOS presence, pull to refresh was such a neat, intuitive and unobtrusive way of triggering a refresh that iOS developers clamoured to find out how […]
Looking Forward to iOS 6
jun 25,
2012
The Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) has come and gone for another year and, as expected, there’s lots to look forward to in iOS 6. If iOS 5 is anything to go by, we can expect this to be released around September/October time. Here are some of the new features of interest to us […]