iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone Development and Usability Guidelines
Recently, Apple introduced several new developer stuff including Xcode 4, ARC, LLVM Compiler 3.0 and iOS 5. From some of the questions on Stack overflow, I could understand that, most of the ARC related confusions arise due to the fact that, developers don’t know if “ABC” is a feature/restriction of LLVM 3.0 or iOS 5 or...
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Couple of weeks ago, I wrote a clean, fast networking toolkit for iOS and Mac written for the LLVM Compiler 3.0 with ARC.
Reception was very good that it was the “most-watched” repository on Github last week. Early adopters have sent me innumerable emails on how fast their network operations are, and how responsive their app is...
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How awesome would it be if a networking framework automatically takes care of caching responses for you?
How awesome would it be if a networking framework automatically remembers your operations when your client is offline?
You favorite a tweet or mark a feed as read when you are offline and the Networking Framework performs all these...
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Just wrote this class, MKiCloudSync (100 lines of code) that auto syncs your NSUserDefaults to iCloud.
How to use?
All you need to do is to enable iCloud key value store entitlements, copy the files and forget about the rest.
Step 1:
Enable iCloud entitlements for your app. This is easily done in Xcode 4.2.1 by opening your target settings...
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codeproject Everyone knows SVN (Subversions) is the best version control tool on the planet. XCode, though, might not be as great as eclipse or Visual Studio, it offers one of the best integration with open platforms than both eclipse and Visual Studio. Apple scripting and XCode makes XCode even more powerful. In fact you can set up keyboard shortcuts to directly search the selected function name or keyword on Google or Apple Docs....
Read MoreAh… Bing… Wonderful product from Microsoft IMO. I always wanted to save the wallpapers/images that appears on the front page of Bing.com to my local PC. But visiting the site everytime and saving it was cumbersome. So I thought of writing my own C# utility that could do that job for me. The utility is just 10KB (yeah Kilo Byte) is open source, free from any kind of obligations. But if you use it in your app, I would be happy if...
Read MoreFinally… After two rejections I made it to the App Store. StationAlarm SG is an app that helps you drift to sleep in Singapore MRTs. Just set your start and end stations and you are good to go… Click on the above link to go to the product page. – Mugunth Follow me on Twitter
Read MoreHow to make your UITableView scroll fast? The iPhone’s GPU struggles to render blended views. Here, Tweetie’s Loren Brichter explains how Tweetie’s UITableView scrolls smoothly on iPhone. He uses a custom drawn UITableViewCell that “pre-renders” the whole thing… The blog entry is here… http://blog.atebits.com/2008/12/fast-scrolling-in-tweetie-with-uitableview/ If it’s slow, try it’s...
Read MoreStationAlarm is an intelligent alarm system that is designed to let you sleep in the MRT without fearing to wake up at the right stations. All you have to do is to set your current station and the destination station. Your route is automatically computed and StationAlarm rings an alarm to wake up at the right station(s). Right station(s) means, if there is a interchange, where you have to change trains, StationAlarm can automatically wake...
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I think I nearly forgot what “restarting” a PC means…My Mac switches on “instantly”, (faster than a TV perhaps?) which M$ promised with Vista which is a different story altogether. So, I wanted to download a tool that could let me know the uptime of my mac. Searching for that, I found that there was a built in command line program that does it. So I typed “uptime” on the terminal and this is what I...
Read MoreOn of the most facinating, useful and equally powerful feature of Leopard, is Time Machine. I’ve been using Mac for over 3 months now and Time Machine for about 2 months. With this background, let me explain my usage rates. I had a lot of data in my PC. Close to 200 GB of data, which I migrated to my mac when I bought it. Took me about 2 days (or more?), and after a month or so, I purchased a new 1TB Western Digital hard drive for 179...
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