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I Know Objective C, but not how to make Apps [closed]

I have gone through a course on programming Objective C, but I want to begin App Development for iOS. The only issue is that I do not know where to begin learning the necessary skills required to ...
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Why is it impossible for Google to port V8 along with Chrome's codebase in C/Obj-C on iOS?

Google has given a reason that All apps on iOS have to run in the sandbox environment except for special apps by apple that get to tap into some private APIs. So Chrome on iOS uses whatever the ...
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How to implement a Theme for View Controllers in an iOS app?

I have an application, where font size, font type, color, background color, image and a lot of things change based on theme. I realised in the beginning itself that using enums to denote themes and ...
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Why did Apple choose to design its programming language with future and past tense method names?

There are a lot of methods like this in iOS/Objective C: - viewDidLoad - viewWillAppear: - applicationDidFinishLaunching I've just been having a discussion with some colleagues about this design ...
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What is the best and most efficient structure of a typical iOS Application [closed]

I have dived into developing for iPhone/iPad lately. And while developing on XCode, I feel like My classes interfaces..etc is messy and I am running into that because I may have not given enough time ...
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Putting a TableView on a ViewController [closed]

I am having trouble figuring out the best way to display my model for my iOS 6 app. My model has a few properties and a to-many relationship with another object. I want to display the properties ...
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Implement a file system for ios devices

I've read that ios apps can communicate via unique urls. An online tutorial on tutsplus says Communication between apps provides your application with an opportunity to take advantage of other ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Design pattern and best practices [closed]

I am an iPhone developer. I am quite confident on developing iPhone application with some minimal feature. I would consider myself as a fair application developer but the code I write is not so much ...
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Data structures for storing finger/stylus movements in drawing application?

I have a general question about creating a drawing application, the language could be C++ or ObjectiveC with OpenGL. I would like to hear what are the best methods and practices for storing strokes ...
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WWDC 2012 announced features on iOS 5?

I am relatively new to iOS development, so after watching a bunch of WWDC videos announcing new awesome features for the iPhone SDK, I still got a few questions regarding their support for older ...
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IOS Variable vs Property

Just started diving into Objective-C and IOS development and was wondering when and the correct location I should be declaring variables/properties. The main piece of code i need explaining is below: ...
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Organizing code for iOS app development

I've been developing an app for the iOS platform, and as I've been going along, I've noticed that I've done a terrible job of keeping my files (.h, .m, .mm) organized. Is there any industry standards ...
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Best way to update UI when dealing with data synchronization

I'm working on a bug at work. The app is written in Objective-C for iOS based device, for the iPad. I'm the new guy there and I've been given a hard task. Sometimes, the UIButton text property does ...
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Design patterns: moving object references around an application

I'm new to Programmers and I am looking to increase my knowledge of programming. Recently, a user on Stack Overflow told me using singletons is a bad idea, that they encourage tight coupling and that ...
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Where does Objective-C come from? C++ or C?

I am very confused about this programming language, Objective-C, which I heard is used to develop iOS applications. I know that it uses the principles of OOP. Would it be easier to learn if I already ...
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Is this a proper implementation of an iOS MVC pattern?

After browsing the apple docs, I came across this sample of their MVC pattern: Using NSNotificationCenter and without using KVO, would this diagram below represent a correct implementation of the ...
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Sample and Best tutorial for unit tests using OCMock in iphone sdk

I am new to the unit testing and using of OCMock in iPhone applications. I had read some documents too but it is hard to understand. Are there any other tutorials which are easy to understand and ...
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New to iPhone Development - iOS5 Storyboard

I'm new here and pretty new to iOS development. My question is basically, should I learn the old school development methods or just learn how to do things using the latest tools (i.e. Storyboard)? ...
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Is it better to target iOS 5 and ARC or an earlier version with MRC?

I personally don't know much about iOS 5, but it seems like with automatic reference counting (ARC), you get rid of much of the memory management issues of the previous operating systems. So is it ...
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Is Big Nerd Ranch or AboutObjects iOS training worth it? [closed]

I have a CS undergrad degree and have been programming for several years with my current company, messed around with Objective-C by making a few console apps and a few simple apps that I ran in the ...
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Best practices for upgrading user data when updating versions of software

In my code I check the current version of the software on launch and compare it to the version stored in the user's data file(s). If the version is newer, then I call different methods to update the ...
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When should I use static variables with primitive types?

Recently I came across the question NSString: Why use static over literal? and in the comments arrived a new question. In Objective-C there some "special" types that are just maps to C primitives. ...
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As an iOS developer, what type of technical interview questions should you be prepared with?

I just finished a technical interview yesterday and the interviewer asked about graph theory, data structure, and traversals. This has nothing to do with iOS stuff. So I came un-prepared. This was ...
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How can I manage my ViewControllers in my game?

I'm building a very simple iOS game that doesn't require any fancy OpenGL; I'd like to stick with Core Graphics & Core Animation. I'd like to make this a fullscreen game, and my question is of ...
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iPhone development options for the [from-my-cold-dead-hands] C developer

Please forgive the humor of the title but it certainly gets my point across. I am quite familiar with C code, I can write it in my sleep and after reading through a few tutorials on iPhone ...
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Views, View Controllers, Properties and Object-Oriented Programming

I'm new to OOP, having been a procedural programmer for many years. I'm learning iOS development in Objective-C and could use some clarity on when and how objects and properties are used. Say I have ...
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Building iOS Applications using MonoTouch

I am planning to learn objective-c to be able to build iOS Applications I have seen some guys using Monotouch sdk, I am really confused where to start from. I have a solid experience in Developing ...
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Better to use one large plist or many small plists when developing for iOS?

I'm creating a simple "find one of our locations" app for iOS 4, for which I have a list of >70 places, complete with addresses, business hours, etc. Is it better to put all of this data in one large ...
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Would knowing Python help with creating iPhone applications?

Here is what the apple site says: With Snow Leopard, Mac OS X makes it easy to use scripting languages as full application development tools. Snow Leopard ships with support for the ...