Questions about issues that are specifically related to Apple's iOS operating systems (whether directly or indirectly).
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about autolayout constraint in xib file [closed]
i was created my app in the ios 6.it works fine.if i run the app in ios 5 the error is like (NSInvalidUnarchiveOperationException: Could not instantiate class named NSLayoutConstraint).
so i unchecked ...
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Need Expert Advices C# Java [duplicate]
I've found this on Xamarin website: Eight Reasons C# is the Best Language for Mobile Development and I wanted to know if it was true especially point 6? In short, they are explaining why C# is the ...
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Is it possible to get iOS development work in the sf bay area with education but no experience [closed]
Having read the part of the FAQ related to career advice I am attempting to rephrase my previous closed question in a way that prevents this one being prematurely closed.
In 2000 I was able to get a ...
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upload pdf via iOS app [closed]
I have a web-service that transforms an uploaded pdf into a flipping-book. I wan't to create an iOS app that allows the user to upload their pdf and recieve the flipping-book. What possibilities are ...
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Which iOS developer account should I sign up for [closed]
I am currently working on an app for a local hospital. The hospital wants a rough version of my app to test on their employees before committing to full application development.
I am currently ...
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Program Structure for Table Cells Representing Objects
So I have a program with "cue" objects and each have their own table cell. The thing is that the table cells have loading bars on them that represent the progress of the cues. This presents the ...
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Checking if my app is using any undocumented parts of the API
I just read through this question, but I am still confused.
How can I know if my app is using undocumented API calls before submitting to it to the app store? Are there any tools I can use?
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Problem performing unwind Segue in storyboard [closed]
I have looked for this problem everywhere. I know how the unwind scene works. I have implemented the following code in the A VC
-(IBAction)returned:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue {
try.text = @"Returned ...
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Is it possible to offer an affiliate program for your iOS or Android app?
Independent of the App Store or Google Play, is there a way to track where new downloads or paying customers came from? For example, if an app advertises my app in theirs - is there a way for me to ...
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Has anyone taken the Objective-C courses run by Amsys in the UK? [closed]
I am interested in learning Objective-C / iOS development and am based in London, UK. I am aware of the many online resources, including the excellent CS193p course on iTunes U run by Stanford. ...
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Why Apple doesn't “force” the user to update by installing the needed API updates when the user downloads a new app?
I was here programming in iOS with a class that's available only for iOS 6, and I was wondering: why should I implement my app to handle multiple operating systems when my app will be distributed by ...
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What is Delegation and why is it important in iOS programming?
At the moment I am teaching myself iOS programming, and one concept I find really hard to wrap my head around is delegation. What is it? Why and how is it used? What is the advantage? The technical ...
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define a gradient color and call that into a button for a background color? [closed]
For iOS using xCode, is there a way to define a gradient color and then when using an element say a button, to call that color as the background color?
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How can I define multiple content for one product identifier in IOS In-App purchase? [closed]
Let's say I want to sell eash songs for $0.99. But I have some offers, like 5 songs for $2.99. I will give a product identifier, songs.bundle.five and upload my songs to apple.
When somebody purchase ...
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In an event-driven environment, how should a “cancel” function abort all further events?
In my iOS app, things are mostly driven by events.
The user presses a button
The app listens for an external device to be connected to the iOS device
Once the device is detected (is connected), an ...
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1answer
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How to add a subclass to a viewcontroller in storyboard
Here's what I've created
I created a view controller element (in storyboard)
I created a new viewcontroller .h and .m file
Here's my issue
Can't seem to figure out how to get the content that ...
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Is every page a new view?
I just started building an iOS app and wanted to get some feedback regarding views.
I've got specs for
Activity Page
Activity Recording
Activity Create
Activity Save
Each of the specs show a ...
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Building a chat-like functionality in iOS
I was planning to implement a functionality wherein a user can send data to a friend of his, similar to sending messages in WhatsApp. This is how I broke down the problem :
The user registers for ...
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iOS App Signing and Certificates
In order to sign an application for the Apple App Store, we need to create a certificate by saving a certificate request file from keychain and then upload it to the Apple store.
I was wondering, ...
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Why Android created emulator rather simulator?
From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4544588/difference-between-iphone-simulator-and-android-emulator
The difference between emulators and simulators is that emulators mimic the software and ...
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Setting up a development standardization guide for in-house/vendor programmers
I was recently hired by a large multi-national corporation to head up mobile development for their sales operation/support team. In a company of close to 10,000 people I am, at least in the America's, ...
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A better workflow between designer and developer on iOS XIB files development
We're working on an iOS project and right now, and whenever the designer has some feedback about fonts, colors, positions of elements, what images should go where etc., I have to go back and go ...
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What is the most cross-browser/system compatible option for 3d graphics on a web page?
I would like to develop a bit of functionality for a web site that involves a bit of 3D - the user can move around objects, rotate them and texture them.
So far I've looked into:
WebGL (in ...
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How to duplicate an app name in Apple app-store? [closed]
I tried creating an app for Apple's app-store. The name I want is "Chess". Unfortunately it was in used. Okay, fair enough. But I can count at least six apps in the app store using the same name. If ...
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MVCS - Model View Controller Store
I recently decided to start learning iOS Development, and to this end I’ve been reading iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide. In the book the authors describe a design pattern MVCS - ...
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What are the language alternatives for developing on iOS? [closed]
Really struggling to "click" and get my head around Objective-C coming from a C# background. Enrolled in the Apple Developer program and a little bit down about my seemingly lack of progress with ...
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Arguments for and against backwards compatibility for new iOS projects [closed]
At the time of writing, iOS 6 has been available for about 3 months.
In the proposal-phase of a new iOS project, the client asks for backwards compatibility of the app involved, all the way back to ...
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What should my license contain for a medical-related app? [closed]
I am still developing an app and it is getting pretty close to being finished. I am just a single developer, so I do not have anyone who can tell me what to put in it.
My app is medical-related (it ...
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How to Release to the App Store as an Individual
I've written an iOS app, and I'd like to release it on to the App Store. I'm an individual so it's not being released via a company or anything, just me.
Is it typical to just release a free app ...
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Pictures from iPhone to clients FTP server - Directly (iPhone->FTP) or Cloud (iPhone->Amazon->FTP)
My clients wants to take pictures with their iPhone's and place them collectible on their server, suggested by FTP.
I can see there is two solutions:
Directly upload from the iPhone to the FTP ...
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Multi-platform Mobile Development?
So my question is this:
Is there any easy way for a single developer to release an app on iOS and Android?
I am a web developer that primarily plays in PHP, Node, Ruby, AS, and JS. I have dabbled a ...
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Testing UI for azure web app on iPad
I am working on debugging my mobile application. There is a specific requirement/issue that I am having related to a drag and drop touch interface on an iPad. I am at the trial and error phase of ...
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Where do the parser and service objects fit in MVC?
Do NSURLConnection service objects and XML/JSON parser objects fall within the controller layer or the model layer? Why?
Is it OK to have business logic in the controller? Or should it be in the ...
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Why do Core Data sqlite table columns start with 'Z'?
I was looking at the sqlite table that Core Data generates and noticed that all table columns start with 'Z'. I realize this is an implementation detail, but I was curious as to why that's the case ...
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What patterns book for iOS development contains this specific information? [closed]
I've read several books on iOS development and Objective-C, however what a lot of them teach is how to work with interfaces and all contain the model inside the view controller, i.e. a ...
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Are there bots that download new iOS apps without being asked?
I noticed on the first day my iOS app hit the app store I got a download from Albania and another one from China. The app is only useful to a specific group, all of which are in a certain U.S. city. ...
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Easy to use JSON Web Service Hosts?
I saw this being used by someone in a college class once and cannot find anything that is analogous to it. I am not sure if this is the right place to ask about something like this, but hopefully I ...
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Strategy for avoiding duplicate object ids for data shared across devices using iCloud
I have a data intensive iOS app that is not using CoreData nor does it support iCloud synching (yet). All of my objects are created with unique keys. I use a simple long long initialized with the ...
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Weird UIView transforms in Retina iPhone
I'm having a problem I don't understand. I'm developing an OpenGL app for iOS. Because at some points I want to force the orientation of the view programatically, and Apple for whatever reason doesn't ...
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How to avoid big and clumsy UITableViewController on iOS?
I have a problem when implementing the MVC-pattern on iOS. I have searched the Internet but seems not to find any nice solution to this problem.
Many UITableViewController implementations seems to ...
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iOS: Using Jenkins for nightly internal builds (TestFlight), plus frequent client builds [closed]
I'm an iOS dev, working for a small agency. I'm currently on a few smaller projects where I'm the only developer. We recently acquired a Jenkins server, but each project is left to fend for themselves ...
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What are some good open source iOS components & libraries? [closed]
simply, would you suggest good sources of open source libraries/components for iOS Objective C projects?
I've found a few but it seems they are somewhat elusive and spartan compared with other ...
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If I implement a web-service, how do I respond to POST requests with JSON?
I have to make a rather complex system for my diploma work. Logically it will consist of the following components:
Database
Web-service
Management with web interface
Client iOS application that will ...
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Sending files via HTTP to web service
I am bit frustrated at the lack of information about this online. Here is the issue:
I am in charge of creating a iOS application which sends sound data back and forth between the server and the app. ...
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Professional iOS Development as a Backup Career [closed]
I am a research chemist by day and I am a self-taught hobbyist iOS programmer by night. I am in the process of developing a moderately complex iOS app and hope to launch it within a month or two. I ...
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Boost Phoenix or Haskell GHC generating C [closed]
I am working on an iOS app that does some number crunching in a variety of areas that would greatly benefit from a functional programming approach, though much of the rest of the application is ...
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How to approach iOS web clip app “download”? [closed]
We have our main site at:
http://mysite.com
which we don't want to alter. Then we have our web clip app at:
http://mysite.com/app/
If someone visits the app URL in normal Safari then the Safari UI ...
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Can python and php work together?
I am having a mobile app created for ios. The developers built the app in php. The app requires an algorithm so I found another programmer to develop it. The algorithm programmer built the algorithm ...
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iOS app with a lot of text
I just asked a question on StackOverflow, but I'm thinking that a part of it belongs here, as questions about design pattern are welcomed by the faq.
Here is my situation. I have developed almost ...
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Pure C++ for iOS apps
Is it possible to use only C++ to create iOS apps? Is there any downside to that? I read somewhere that you have to use a mix of objective C and C++ if you want to use C++ that bad.
