It’s always nice to know how well a method in your app is performing. Well here’s a quick tip on timing said methods. The result will output how long a method took from start to finish down to the millisecond. Read More…
There is a quick and easy way to stretch an image inside an object without it distorting any curves or diagonal lines. The following method will stretch an image at a given X and/or Y position of the image file. So you’ll want to find a spots that are straight horizontal or vertical lines. The code below will move in 20 pixels from the left and stretch the image at that point. So now you can include the buttonImage as the background image for any other object and it will stretch the image to look correctly no matter what the width. Read More…
When we started our humble little company nearly 3 years ago, we were primarily a web development and database management company. For the past year, however, we’ve added iPhone development to our skill set.
We started out with our own first app, Checklyst. Shortly after that, we’ve released Memory Gizmo Words and Math. Our most popular app, Solitaire Poker, was created in one week. There are several more exciting, full-featured apps currently in the pipeline. Read More…
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.
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.
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…
Solitaire Poker
A challenging and entertaining single player poker game.
Memory Gizmo Math
A game to stimulate your mind and your math skills.
Memory Gizmo Words
A game to stimulate your mind and your vocabulary.
Checklyst
An App to organize your workflow and help you get things done.