Update 4: (8th July 2011) MKStoreKit 4.0, an updated version of the one presented here is available. Please check it out and use 4.0 instead of this. Around last year this time, I wrote a singleton class, MKStoreKit, and a blog post, wrapping Apple’s StoreKit framework and it has been quite popular. From the email responses I receive, I could say, it’s been in use in more than thousands of apps on the AppStore. It has been very...

A week ago, I got a new mobile phone, the windows phone 7 primarily for testing out the user interface, and some programming.  The device I got was the HTC HD 7 from SingTel which costed me around 890$, 2$ higher than the iPhone 4 16GB. In this blog post I’ll review the HTC hardware comparing it with competing phones like the Samsung Omnia as well as the software it runs, Windows Phone OS comparing it to iOS and Android. While this...

In this RESTful world, access to any modern data-rich website is restricted with some kind of authentication mechanism. Several known open authentication mechanisms used on Web are HTTP Basic (RFC 1945) and HTTP Digest authentication (RFC 2617). While discussing Basic or Digest itself is a separate blog post, or a lengthy boring Wikipedia article, coding it in Objective C is not. No, I’m not talking about ASIHTTPRequest. While ASI is...

Gravatar, globally recognized avatar is an platform (web application?) by Automattic, creators of the blogging platform WordPress. The idea behind gravatar is to associate a picture to a person using his email address. As email addresses are increasingly becoming a way to identify yourself, some commenting platforms use Gravatar APIs to display an icon using the email address you give them. The Gravatar API is ridiculously simple that, all...

How many lines of code do you have to write for displaying a webpage ‘in-app”. 3 methinks. Wouldn’t be great if there is a built in class for presenting a webpage using “presentModalViewController”? Meet MKWebViewController. Step 1: Drop the attached three files into your project and write the following three lines on your action callback (buttonDidTap) or equivalent methods MKWebViewController *controller =...