Tagg: ios 6

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]