Activity indicators (UIActivityIndicatorView)

I find it frustrating to be staring at a screen, with nothing changing, nothing responding, being not sure if there is something happening behind the scenes, or if the app has crashed. It doesn’t take much effort to pop up an activity indicator to let the user know on the UI that the app is..

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Using NSUrlConnection in iOS

Quite often in my builds I need to get some information from an exposed webservice. Here’s an easy way of doing it with the iPhone API. In the interface declaration, add a NSMutableData for us to put the response data into: NSMutableData *responseData;NSMutableData *responseData; Then in the viewDidLoad, initialise it: responseData = [[NSMutableData alloc] init];responseData..

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