Did you know you could modify your website’s form input fields so that when viewed on an iOS device, it will bring up certain types of keyboards or other input elements?
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One thing iPhone designers love to do these days is add texture to the navigation bar.  Leather and wood grain texures are very popular.  Luckily for iPhone developers, it’s actually a very simple task to incorporate these images into our Apps.  In this iOS Quick Tip.  I’m going to show you how add textures to your iPhone app Navigation Bar.

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Its been a while since our last tutorial. We’ve been rather busy developing apps. Hope this makes up for it. This is something nearly every app has.

Unless everything you wanted to do in your app is on one page, you’ll need to use either a push view or a modal view. There is a significant difference between the two.

A good example of a push view is the iPod (Music) app. When you tap on an artist, a push view slides in from the right to reveal that artist’s songs. A push view “pushes” the current view out of the way to reveal the new view. The new view usually has an arrow-shaped button in the top (navigation) bar, and the button title has the title of the page the new view pushed away.

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In part 1 of this 2 part tutorial we discussed how to create the image frames that are needed to put together an animation of a spinning tile. This tile was actually used in our new iPhone game called Memory Gizmo Words. In part 2 we’re going to open Xcode and write the code that will animate these images.

For this tutorial I’ll create a new project called Flip Tile and, I’ll be using the UIImageView to display the first frame. If you’ve never worked with Image Views you can check out our tutorial called iOS Tutorial – Creating an Image View (UIImageView) to get started. Read More…

We recently released a new iPhone game call Memory Gizmo Words and in this project we had to have an animated spinning tile.  Since I had never tried to animate anything before, this turned out to be quite a challenge.

I quickly realized the first thing I had to do was break the animation into pieces and draw each frame.  I started in Photoshop, but trying to get all the sizes, angles, and the perspective just right was a pain.  So I gave up on that idea pretty quick. Read More…

We apologize for the delay in any tutorials. We have been busily working on our first app, Checklyst. We have completed and posted it to the app store. Checklyst is a to-do app that instantly syncs with our website, Checklyst.com. Here is the official description of the app.

Checklyst is the todo app for professionals. It’s designed to organize your workflow and help you get things done. It’s a checklist app powerful enough for project management, yet simple enough for a shopping list. Read More…

This tutorial will be just about as simple as the Splash Screen tutorial a little while back. We are going to load an image that we add to our project, resize it, and color the background. This will be done with absolutely no code.

(Note: In future tutorials, we will be adding more functionality to our apps.)

Let’s begin.
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I recently created a custom dialog box for two separate projects, and I figured that since I was going to use the same code on both, I wanted it to be the best code I could do.  To determine what the best method was for creating a dialog box, I decided to create a few versions of it and to see which one would work for these two projects and any future projects I may have.  In this post, I’ll go over some of the code and decisions I made while creating the design I eventually chose to use. Read More…

Text fields, buttons and labels. You will find nearly all of these in almost every app. They are key elements for getting and displaying information to and from the user.

We’re going to use all three in this fun, geeky little tutorial.

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One of the easiest ways to improve the performance of a website is to compress the JavaScript and CSS files. When compressing these files, there are three steps that should be taken in order to get the fastest possible response from your website. You should start by merging similar files to reduce http requests. Next, Compress the code by removing any unnecessary characters such as spaces, tabs, return characters, and comments. Finally, you should gzip the file to reduce the file size even further. Read More…