Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is set to kick off on June 13 at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and run until the 17th. If you weren’t able to make it out to San Francisco for this year’s WWDC conference, don’t worry— we’ve got…
Since the release of iOS7, App developers and designers have been adjusting to a whole new look in the Apple universe. Accustomed to embellishments and rich layers, the development community were taken by surprise with the shift to a very flat, simple…
Apple's iOS operating system has pioneered both the smartphone and tablet markets, thanks to its easy-to-use interface and loads of attractive features that include a bevy of applications designed for entertainment, games, education, music and much more…
When you compare the workplace of today to the workplace of 5 years ago, you may not think a great deal has changed right? Think again. 3D printing, the gradual demise of office phones, those new ‘break -out’ areas, the ever increasing role of the cloud…
Whether you’re a new user or a seasoned professional, you’re most likely aware of how ReportPlus can help you organize business data into dashboards you can later use for an eye-catching presentation. However, you’re probably in need of a…
WWDC is Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and it kicks off today with an always much anticipated keynote. The keynote event can be streamed online so tons of internet traffic will be pouring through Apple’s datacenter starting at 10AM Pacific. I…
If you're not familiar with objective-c, NSDate is the equivalent of the DateTime object in C#. However working with it is quite different. In this article i'll show you how to do some common tasks with the NSDate object.
Get Today's Date:…
Previously, I talked about downloading data using NSURLConnection. That method works great, however, in iOS 7 Apple introduced a different way of downloading data, which also allows downloading while you're app is in the background.
Just like we did…
Yes, this may be an edge case, but it is a problem that you may run into one day. For example, say you're writing an App that requires you to accept any sort of random json or xml. While you could just consume them in dictionary format, it maybe not actually…
I've said this before, and i'll probably keep saying it, the UIScrollView is very powerful and awesome. Its so powerful that we build our IGGridView control by deriving from it. Even Apple wrote their UITableView the same way.
So, today I'm going…
For the 13.1 release of our NUCLiOS product we added a LOT of features. So many in fact that its actually quite easy to overlook some of them. So, today i'm going to talk about one of my favorite features added to the IGGridView: Infinite Scrolli…
I've talked about all the tricks you can do with images before, even about how to take screen shots of a particular UIView. However, today i'm going to dive into that just a little bit more and show you how you can take that screen shot at different…
If you have a string representation of a number, NSString has a few helper methods that make it easy to grab a number. But what happens when you have a string made up of letters and numbers, and you just want the number?
First lets look at how you get…
In this always connected cloud based world we live in today, i'm willing to bet that the App you're currently working on, needs to download some sort of data. Whether it be files from some type of cloud storage, or even just requesting tweets from twitter…
If you've worked on Windows machines your whole life like I have, switching to a Mac can be quite daunting. Besides relearning where everything is, you'll quickly notice, that the "Control" key on your Mac doesn't perform the same function as it does…
The IGGridView has a few different options for allowing you to slide a row and reveal a menu. However, what if you're not using a row based grid, and instead have a cell based grid, maybe something like this:
A sliding row gesture wouldn't really…
Apple supports a bunch of fonts, and in each version of iOS it seems like they keep adding more. However, sometimes a custom font gives you that unique look that can help your App stand out from the crowd. Today i'm going to show you how to add your custom…
Flipboard is probably one of my favorite apps to use on the iPad. Its just one of those apps that I use every single day. And one of the reasons that i keep coming back to it, is its ease of use. That page turning gesture, just works really well, and…
When writing an app, you sometimes comes across situations where you need to adjust the position and size of a label based on the size of the text. And that size could be different based on a particular font you're using. So, today i'm going to show you…
In iOS 6, Apple introduced the NSMutableAttributedString class. Along with it, all of their UIViews which previously exposed a text property, now expose an "attributedText" property.
Recently I was working on an App, where the design required…
Given a UIImage, in some cases you may want to have the image split. For example, say you wanted to create a Flipboard or Paper like interface, where you have a screen shot of a UIVIew, and you want to have the appearance of it folding.
To do this you…
So the new Nexus 7 has finally been released. As well as a price drop, the storage capacity of the top model has been bumped up to 32GB. Google’s timing was obviously related to the launch of the long rumored iPad Mini. Given these new devices …
2013 would seem to be the year of the TV. Last year saw a sort of awakening for many manufacturers, with the likes of Samsung and Sony releasing some really quite smart devices. But this year, if January is anything to go by, looks likely to be something…
It is the time of year again, when many of us look back (or forward in this case) and review the big technology trends. In this post I’d like to look at the technology and gadgets that we can to look ahead to in 2013.
As you might expect, Apple…
Apple pioneered mobile apps as early as 2008; since then a huge number of web and enterprise platform have adopted them. Apps are widely regarded as a great way of providing content to a mobile device and using the specific features of that device to…