Recent search on iTunes listed the Madison Area Technical College classes on iPhone development by Dr. Brad Larson

Session on OpenGL ES 2.0 recommended by Gurus. Go and download the complete sessions from here

I created this custom UISplitViewController as one of my iPad project required Split view for only one screen. The default UISplitViewController provided by Apple can only be added to UIWindow which means you can’t use it with normal UINavigation based project with only one splitview screen.

You get the idea? You are not looking for the UI code are you?

Saurik will be doing the UI for us ;)

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iTunes 10

Another iTunes upgrade, I don’t want to see another 100Mb iTunes upgrade till next month. Many people were fighting over the icon, Guys! they have changed the boring icon after a decade.

Only yesterday I got a chance to view the Keynote video. You can also download the video from iTunes for Free.

TL;DR

Apple version of the texture

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Ever since I installed the iOS 3.2 SDK I was in love with the iPad/Safari background fabric texture.

Disclaimer: There is no alternative to real Mac, if you like Mac go and buy it. If buying a real Mac is too much, you can at least buy a license for Mac OS X Snow Leopard which costs $29 only. This post is to test the Snow Leopard compatibility with Lenovo 3000 N100.

Angry Birds is one great app in Apple App Store that worth every penny (Full version is only $0.99)

I am not a great gamer, I give up on games too early. But this Angry Birds is one hell of a game (next to Road Rash & NFS II) that makes me addicted for a long time.

• iPad didn’t replace common tasks. Steve was referring his notepad on stage:). Old habits die hard.
• Steve can still memorize 24 countries and repeat them in the same order. Bravo! Good job Steve.
• Yes, he appreciated Microsoft for their HTML5 demos.
• Now the revenue will be shared  60-40%. 40% of iAd revenue to Apple.
• Will FaceTime work if there are quite a few devices on the Wi-Fi network?
• If FaceTime is Open, then H.264 and AAC too?
• If the same front side glass was used in the back of iPhone 4, can we replace the backside glass for the front in case of damages to the front?
• 29$ for bumb ( a band covers the antennas’). Come on Steve, let the poor guys live with the iPhone/iPad cover business.
• FaceTime is open since it use many OpenSource tools & standards.

are few points I noticed during Keynote.

I was always disappointed with Apple Keynote pages. It allows you to stream and watch the videos with QuickTime which is not great for streaming and videos are not HTML5 yet. Another restriction with QuickTime is, you need to have QuickTime Pro to save the video.

Warning: My observations are biased as I’m not an Apple Fanboy, at least right now (was one in the past, I both respect and hate Apple & Microsoft)

Notes.app of miPhone was not allowing me to save any new notes. This was after restoring the manual backup of notes.db. I have taken the backup of my Address book, notes and images data with iPhone Explorer.

A quick obj-c cheat-sheet for the beginners.

Scribd link

This is taken from RWTH-iPhone Application Programming. You can also download complete videos from iTunesU.

Check dependencies Code Sign error: Provisioning profile

[BEROR]Code Sign error: Provisioning profile ‘579ACFD8-827A-4325-F623-DB8CDD5081DB’ can’t be found

Anyone who is relatively new to iPhone development could easily identify this issue is related to the invalid provisioning profile.

They only check the binary to see if they use any private API nothing other than that. Sometimes they reject the app and give you a reason that it doesn’t fit with their HIG standards. Eg., one of our app got rejected for this reason. They said + button should be used when you use add contacts to the app from Address book. But the same + icon was used in USA Today app and is available in appstore. Moreover we just copied the idea to have + to show larger images.

What if iPhone provides an accessibility option for users with bigger finger?

I found that pinch to zoom and screenshot capturing can be considered as good photo cropping tool. This was done in the following sequence screenshot + zoom + screenshot. You can see the same with the UIPageControl aligned little left instead of center.

Follow the steps below:

1. Launch iTunes
2. Log out of your account (if any)
3. Scroll down the iTunes page and hit the flag on the right
4. Select your country of interest
5. Try to buy a random free app (Note: You will see payment option None only when you register after/while downloading a free app)
6. iTunes will ask you for your credentials, hit open a new account
7. Accept the terms
8. Enter a valid email, pick a password and so on. Hit next
9. Select “none” as the payment method. Then fill in the form with some random address in the country you picked (Google maps is your friend) or avail the service from http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
10. Finalize & click the validation link in your email

Thanks: AppAdvice