Creating Image Resources for iOS Apps
nov 9,
2012
Looking around the web you’ve probably noticed that great images can make the difference between an amateurish website and a professionally crafted one. The same goes for iOS apps. In both cases, image quality never makes up for bad design and usability, but carefully created images can really add polish. A problem is that high-end […]
Lazy Properties
jul 30,
2012
Every language has its own idioms and when I have to learn a new language, I always find that looking at sample code and examples is a great way to learn new techniques. Something that’s very common in the sample code provided by Apple is the use of lazy properties. It’s certainly not an approach […]
A Better Approach to Logging
jul 11,
2012
Following on from my post last week about one-star reviews associated with the choice of artwork resolution for the retina iPad, there’s no surer way to get one-star reviews than have an application that crashes. At best it’s frustrating, at worst it results in data loss or corruption in applications that store data. For live […]
debugging,
ipad development,
ipad programming,
iphone app development,
iphone development,
iphone programming,
logging,
mobile application development,
mobile computing,
nslog,
objective-c,
xcode
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 […]