A new error has started showing up when submitting iPhone Apps through iTunes Connect: “The application-identifier entitlement is not formatted correctly; it should contain your 10-character App ID Seed, followed by a dot, followed by your bundle identifier.” From what I can tell, the way to fix this to create a NEW entitlements file (see [...]
After the recent release to developers of iPhone SDK 4.0, the inevitable scramble to review the new APIs has been on in earnest. One of the first things noticed were the following new AVCaptureDevice class properties: AVCaptureDevice – isFlashMode Supported AVCaptureDevice – isTorchMode Supported AVCaptureDevice – position (Front or Rear) These new properties relating to the iPhone SDK [...]
Bulpadok has just published The Hidden Park, an adventure game with a difference – you! Developed in association with WSP Online Solutions, and Conduct, The Hidden Park uses the iPhone’s GPS to immerse you in a world within your local park (currently 10 parks around the world are supported, with more promised). Using the accelerometer, [...]
Bulpadok has just released their first iPhone app – Fairies Everywhere is a great camera based game that brings your iPhone to life! Take a photo, shake your iPhone and magic fairies appear everywhere around you. Save the photo to your camera roll, and you can print the pictures for your kids. Great fun and [...]
WSP Online Solutions have just launched Footy 2009 – a fantastic fully featured AFL app which is now available on the App Store. You can purchase it from the App Store here. It features: Latest AFL news fully licensed from the ABC, displaying full news articles within the App. Live Scores including game details, [...]
Okay, so I’ve been getting the ‘modifying layer that is being finalized’ error message when i’m trying to release a subview from a superview: [self.popupPreviewView release]; self.popupPreviewView = nil; The best way to solve this (that I’ve found – please post a comment if you can provide a better one) is to remove the view [...]
One of my favorite applications for the iPhone, Fairfax Radio News, is currently being featured by Apple in the New section of the App Store in Australia: Fairfax Radio News provides the latest national 3 minute radio news bulletin (for Australia) direct to your iPhone – and it’s updated 24/7. Very handy when you are on [...]
The CFA Bushfire map that I developed last weekend to help people find where the CFA incidents were occuring during Victoria’s worst ever bushfires has been updated, and is now more iPhone friendly. Browse to here on your iPhone: http://blog.evandavey.com/firemap/ And you will now be able to more easily search and use the map on [...]
Common problem, need to apply nice HTML formatting for a section of your page, but want the UIWebView not to appear as a big white box – only the content of the UIWebView to appear. How to do it? myWebView.opaque = NO; myWebView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; [myWebView loadHTMLString: @"<html><body style='background-color: transparent'> Content Here</body></html>" baseURL:nil]; The above [...]
Fairfax today released a very handy iPhone App that provides you with the latest radio news on your iPhone. Fairfax Radio News provides access to the most recently aired news broadcast from the Fairfax Radio network (which consists of 2UE, 3AW, 4PC, 6PR) direct to your iPhone. It turns out to be an amazingly useful [...]
Developing for the iPhone, we wanted to show a volume control that sync’ed with the user’s volume control buttons on the side of the phone. It turns out, the best way to do this is to show the volume control using the MPVolumeView class (part of the MediaPlayer framework). Here is some example code from [...]
EIATRACK today launched an iPhone application to compliment their subscription web service. The iPhone Application provides subscribers with the following features on their iPhone: Reg Alerts Special Reports Subject and Substance Reports Events The application is a free download from all users and can be accessed from the iTunes App Store. EIATRACK has further information [...]
Okay, so I’ve just spent the last few hours trying to work out why my UIScrollView won’t scroll! The secret, I’ve found, is the following: – (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // Setup scroll view [scrollView setContentSize:CGSizeMake(backgroundImage.frame.size.width, backgroundImage.frame.size.height+200)]; } You must call setContentSize and pass it an object which has a greater size [...]
Okay, so we’ve fully taken the plunge and are now developing for the iPhone platform. Its got a fantastic SDK, with lots of really nice features and tools to help you with your developing fun. However some tasks are a little more difficult than you’d image. For instance, we wanted to stream an MP3 file [...]
I’ve come across a problem – my main computer (a MacBook Pro) has all my music on it, and is hooked up to my iPhone. But I’ve just got a nice big flat screen TV and its connected to my stereo. So I want to be able to play music/movies I buy on iTunes through [...]
Apple has just released iPhone firmware version 2.0.2 via iTunes. Simply plug your iPhone into your computer and you will be prompted to update. As usual, all we know at this stage is that it contains bug fixes however hopefully we’ll find out more as time goes on… Update: it’s rumoured that this update will [...]