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Posted by Leonard Ah Kun in Coding Tricks, How-to, iOS on 26. Jan, 2012 | No Comments
Creating traditional looking methods in Objective-C
When new developers decide they want to learn Objective-C, at first glance it is quite intimidating. Mainly because of the method calling syntax that looks like this. [awesomeObject doSomethingAwesomeWith:anotherAwesomeObject and:someOtherAwesomeObject with:awesomeness]; Although this format describes the method you calling better, it often feels a bit verbose when coding as it
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Posted by Richard Le Mesurier in Android, BlackBerry, Coding Tricks, Cross Platform on 07. Dec, 2011 | No Comments
Android to BlackBerry – regex to remove generics
We often have to write the same app across the 3 main platforms: iOS, Android & BlackBerry. And at Cobi, we try to write mostly native apps for performance reasons. So there’s a lot of porting that goes along with that. (There are many tips on how to write java
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Posted by Leonard Ah Kun in How-to, iOS on 31. May, 2011 | No Comments
Opening custom files in iOS with your app
iOS allows you to open custom files with your app. You can send various files to other apps from your app, or receive files to your app from another app. The simplest example would be attachments in Mail. This will also work in Safari. Here, I will show you how
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Creating traditional looking methods in Objective-C
Posted by Leonard Ah Kun in Coding Tricks, How-to, iOS
When new developers decide they want to learn Objective-C, at first glance it is quite intimidating. Mainly because of the method calling syntax that looks like this. [awesomeObject doSomethingAwesomeWith:anotherAwesomeObject and:someOtherAwesomeObject with:awesomeness]; Although this format describes the method you calling better, it often feels a bit verbose when coding as it
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Android to BlackBerry – regex to remove generics
Posted by Richard Le Mesurier in Android, BlackBerry, Coding Tricks, Cross Platform
We often have to write the same app across the 3 main platforms: iOS, Android & BlackBerry. And at Cobi, we try to write mostly native apps for performance reasons. So there’s a lot of porting that goes along with that. (There are many tips on how to write java
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Javadoc tricks in Eclipse
Posted by Richard Le Mesurier in Android, BlackBerry, Coding Tricks, How-to, J2ME
If you know me, you know I’m one of “those” developers who actually sees value in writing comments & javadoc in my code. Part of that comes from my background of writing code that non-developer managers wanted to tweek/break (amazing how the financial world runs on Excel); part from working
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Quick and Easy iPhone Gradients
Posted by Gary McGowan in How-to, iOS
The market for iPhone and iPad apps is competitive and sometimes a bit of extra eye-candy goes a long way. For a couple of projects I have had to give various items a gradient shaded background. There are two ways to do this. Core Graphics or Core Animation. Gradients in
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Eclipse productivity tricks
Posted by Richard Le Mesurier in Coding Tricks, How-to
If you’re like me, you never bother to “learn” the productivity shortcuts of any IDE – but when they happen to stumble through your life accidentally, you are always surprised – “Wow! You can do THAT?!” This normally followed by feeling a bit silly for not reading the keyboard shortcut
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Objective-C: Blurry UIView
Posted by Altus van der Merwe in iOS
If you’ve been coding Objective-C interfaces for a while you will know that you set the position of a view using it’s frame property. This property is a CGRect which is made up of four float values. newView.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 100.0); At first these floats were quiet an
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Deploying a BlackBerry app for OTA installation
Posted by Stephen Asherson in BlackBerry, How-to
When testing a build of a BlackBerry app, one method to deploy the app on a BlackBerry OTA is to host all of the application COD files and a main JAD file with the relevant details of each COD file in it. Once hosted, one can point the BlackBerry device
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Apps World 2011 Gallery
Posted by Dennis Burford in BlackBerry, Microsoft, News, Nokia, Phone 7
Here are some pics from the AppsWorld / Social Media World Forum 2011 Conference that concluded yesterday in Cape Town.
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Opening custom files in iOS with your app
Posted by Leonard Ah Kun in How-to, iOS
iOS allows you to open custom files with your app. You can send various files to other apps from your app, or receive files to your app from another app. The simplest example would be attachments in Mail. This will also work in Safari. Here, I will show you how
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Apps World Africa 2011 in Cape Town
Posted by Dennis Burford in Android, BlackBerry, iOS, J2ME, News, Nokia, Phone 7
Next week sees a major event on the calendar for mobile app developers. Appsworld Africa takes place at the Cape Town International Convention Center (CTICC) on 1-2 June 2011. These two days will be packed with technical workshops from industry leaders like Google, BlackBerry, Microsoft and Nokia.
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