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How to automatically build an IPA file from XCode

Found this excellent article on idotcom.us

I have long since forgotten where I first read this, but I hope this will help an iPhone developer looking to simplify the process for sending their app to their user(s) via AdHoc.

Create a View-Based application project in xcode like so:

I named mine HelloWorld ( How original!! ). After telling XCode [...]

How to read XML data using iPhone SDK

There are a few ways of transferring data over the web, the one I’ve chosen for this sample is XML. One fantastic thing Apple has done is, they’ve made the ability to export & import basic Class’s like NSData, NSDate, NSString, NSNumber, NSDictionary and NSArray in an XML format. This makes it very easy to transfer [...]

Using regular expressions in iPhone SDK

It turns out that Mac OS X for years, and iPhone OS since inception, has been shipped with a perfectly good regular expressions engine. This engine is based on the ICU specification, so it works perfectly with unicode and is well on par with PCRE for functionality. This framework is simply called ICU Core, and has [...]

Generate automatic emails from your app

Automatic emails are a feature some apps will need, especially in an app that requires updates to the user (such as a burglary alarm). This is not as hard as people think it is, and it certainly does not require use of the Mail.app that comes with the iPhone, nor does it require low level socket [...]

Compiling and using CURL on iPhone OS

Download libcurl test application.zip-702.55 KB
Download libcurl for iPhone (lipo libs)-2.7 Mb
Download libcurl XCode project for iPhone-2.8 Mb

Introduction

The goal of this article is to describe how can you compile libcurl as static library for iPhone OS , and how can you use it in your iPhone projects.

iPhone OS runs on a armv6 processor [...]

Howto Launch iPhone Maps from within your code

In it’s simplest form, to launch the maps application at your last location:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://maps.google.com/maps"]];

which gives you something like this:

Getting slightly more interesting, we can specify the latitude/longitude (”ll“) flag to tell the maps application to launch at a specific location (in this case, my workplace):

NSString *latlong = @”-33.874559,151.219575″;NSString *url = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=%@",
[latlong stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

[[UIApplication [...]

How to display YouTube Videos With MagpieRSS

This post from netweblogic
List/Display YouTube Videos With MagpieRSS

Late last year, Google made a switch from the old YouTube API and integrated it into it’s GData API. While an understandable move, it does somewhat annoy me that the old REST method is being depreciated in August 2008 because I don’t particularly feel like updating my code

Alas, [...]

iPhone + Youtube API: mashup heaven

The YouTube APIs Terms of Service permits commercial use of the APIs under certain conditions, and in most cases, as long as you play fair, you are free (and highly encouraged) to develop great iPhone apps using the YouTube APIs and sell them in the iTunes App Store.

An iPhone app that uses the YouTube APIs typically [...]

Liven up your boring UITableView: part 1

From Reign Design

Liven up your boring UITableView: part 1

I’ve seen so many iPhone applications that look like this. White background. Helvetica. Yawn. Apple make it very easy to make apps that look like every other one. But why not stand out in the App Store? Some small tweaks can make your app look [...]

Iphone SDK: Creating customized tables

Create a UIViewController and View XIB. Name them all whatever you like (in my project I use: MyView.h, MyView.m, MyView.xib). In App Delegate add standard lines: [...]