Tag: ipad programming

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 […]

There’s a brand new game available on the App Store, especially for iPad developers. There’s no need to download it — it comes free with Xcode and a developer account! Here’s the idea: Create an app for the iPad and try to decide whether you should increase the resolution of your artwork to suit the […]

Something very interesting caught my eye regarding storyboards this week. No, not an Android developer singing their praises (although that is newsworthy in itself!). I was thinking more of a statistic that was slipped quietly into the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote address: specifically that 80% of iOS devices are now running iOS 5.0 […]

Apple recently announced that the limits on iCloud key value storage have been increased to 1MB from 64KB. These limits are per application and per individual value, with a limit of 1024 individual values. Key value storage is one of two methods that developers can use to store iOS data in iCloud, the other being […]

The Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2012 is almost upon us and I think we can expect a whole raft of announcements from Apple about new hardware and software features. Maybe even a new iPhone, a new iPad and a beta version of iOS 6 to play with? As developers we like big new […]