Monthly Archives: July 2010

How to get the Return key to dismiss a UITextView

Posted on July 15, 2010 by alec

Need to dismiss they keyboard in a UITextView? Changing the Return key to read “Done” doesn’t make the iPhone keyboard to go away.  Put this code in the delegate for your UITextView and your return key can behave more like …

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Radio BPR v2 update submitted to app store

Posted on July 14, 2010 by alec
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plist > JSON > XML

Posted on July 12, 2010 by alec

Having developed 4 or 5 iPhone apps now that download remote XML data from servers and populate tables view and other content, I can tell you without reservation that it is the slowest way to go.

Performance using JSON is …

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How To Place a UIWebView inside a UIScrollView

Posted on July 9, 2010 by alec

To display several pieces of content on a screen, I needed several views. A scroll view (UIScrollView) was necessary to encompass the headline, photo and story text; I had the headline and photo at the top in a …

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Xcode installation woes.

Posted on July 3, 2010 by alec

iPhone developers: if you install Xcode 3.2.3 to start developing iOS4 apps you may be surprised to find that all prior SDKs and Simulators before 4.0 for iPhone (and 3.2 for iPad) get removed. Trying to build using an older …

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