Prepping for Christmas [Matt Martel]
As every seasoned iPhone developer knows, the Christmas season is Big. Retailers, online and physical, make most of their annual revenue in the fourth quarter. It’s not quite that lopsided for iDevs,...
View ArticleUnsung Heroes [Matt Martel]
Last weekend I had the privilege to be able to attend the inaugural 360MacDev conference in Denver. While many readers may only be beginning to think about deploying apps on OS X, there are many...
View ArticleAnother Year [Matt Martel]
A quick peek at the calendar reveals that it is exactly three months since my first iDevBlogADay post. Thus it’s time to relinquish my spot and move to the back of the list (thanks, @mysterycoconut!)...
View ArticlePrompting for Reviews [Matt Martel]
Like pay-to-play or in-app ads, prompting for a rating is controversial in that some developers frown upon it. Free apps tend to have an average 3 star rating. People rarely bother to go back to the...
View ArticleCare and Feeding of Your Search Paths [Matt Martel]
I ran into an odd issue the other day and spent a little time getting to the bottom of it. It turns out I wasn’t taking good care of my Xcode project’s library search paths. Here’s what I had to do...
View ArticleThe Annual Pilgrimage [Matt Martel]
The annual pilgrimage to San Francisco is underway this week. I figure I’ve attended about a dozen in the past 21 years. All have indeed been awesome. Many long-time attendees seem to have mastered the...
View ArticleIn With the New [Matt Martel]
The new shiny is here. At the annual WWDC recently, Apple unveiled three widely-anticipated new products. This year it was all about software, so hardware announcements will have to come later. In the...
View Article3 Years On The App Store [Matt Martel]
This week marks the 3rd anniversary of the App Store launch. It sounds, and feels like a lifetime ago. It’s sometimes hard to remember how “unconnected” our lives were before the iPhone, but I can say...
View ArticleSimple HTTP Request Handling [Matt Martel]
It’s common for iPhone apps to need to make HTTP requests and receive results in either JSON or XML format. There are several excellent full-featured tools ( ASIHTTPRequest, RestKit, etc.) to help you...
View ArticleUsing NSOperationQueue for Background Parsing [Matt Martel]
Let’s say you’re making HTTP requests and handling responses as we described last time. Parsing the results is usually pretty easy, but what happens when you have a large blob of data, be it XML or...
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