Tag Archives: iPad
iOS Navigation Bar behind status bar after closing full screen MPMoviePlayer
I had a problem with an iOS app I am creating. I have a view that has a UINavigationBar at the top and a table view that displays a full screen video on didselectrowatindexpath. Once the video is playing if the device is rotated and the done button is pressed the video will disappear but the […]
iOS – Check if wifi is being used
In an app I was making recently I wanted to check if the user was using a wifi connection. I used the method below to check and just checked whether it returned true or false. – (BOOL)networkCheck{ Reachability *currentReachability = [[Reachability reachabilityForInternetConnection] retain]; NetworkStatus networkStatus = [currentReachability currentReachabilityStatus]; [currentReachability release]; switch (networkStatus) { case NotReachable: […]
ShareKit 0.2.1 Twitter not working
I added ShareKit to my project and got the following error: Twitter Send Status Error: {"error":"Could not authenticate with OAuth.","request":"\/1\/statuses\/update.json"}Twitter Send Status Error: {"error":"Could not authenticate with OAuth.","request":"\/1\/statuses\/update.json"} The following is how I fixed it: Around line 54 you will see the following code: self.authorizeURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize"]; self.requestURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.twitter.com/oauth/request_token"]; self.accessURL = [NSURL […]
NGTabBarController for iOS
A custom TabBarController which can be positioned on the bottom, top, left or top. Utilizes iOS 5 Containment API if possible, but works on iOS 4 too. The TabBar is fully customizable with a tintColor or background image as well as the possibility to show/hide the item highlight and the possibility to change the text […]
iOS Launch Images
When creating a new universal IOS app you need to create a minimum of 6 launch images to support the iPhone and iPad (both including their retina displays). For the iPhone you have it easy, only 2 are required. Default.png – 320 x 480 Default@2x.png – 640 x 960 For the iPad there are a […]
How to change colour of UINavigationBar
By default the UINavigationBar on an iOS app is blue. Apple have some built-in styles that you can use [self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlackOpaque];[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlackOpaque]; The options available are: UIBarStyleBlack UIBarStyleBlackOpaque UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent UIBarStyleDefault *UIBarStyleBlackOpaque and UIBarStyleTranslucent have been depreciated. You should use UIBarStyleBlack and set property ‘translucent’ to yes if needed*. You can also change the colour to […]
PullToRefresh iOS
Maybe a bit late to the table but this plugin is so easy to use but makes a huge difference to an app. It takes a couple minutes to get it working in an app so no reason not to use it if you need a way of refreshing a uitableview https://github.com/enormego/EGOTableViewPullRefresh
SBJson
I use this framework when creating iOS apps and need to parse some JSON. It’s very easy to use and I have integrated into many apps I have created. http://stig.github.com/json-framework/