Incorporating an iOS style Calendar in your App

This is the second post in a series paying homage to those developers whom make great iOS code and release it open source.  I’ll join you soon! I recently built a b2b app that required use of a easy-to-use calendar, and I didn’t want to go down the route of creating events with EKEventKit and..

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In App Settings SDK

Its been a while since I posted anything, I’ve just been head down butt up piecing together projects and scoping out new ones.  You never stop learning in this field so its about time I started sharing knowledge again. I build a lot of data centric apps, and although iOS makes it easy to create..

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My first iOS Application

Taking a step back, I thought I’d post up a brief overview article for those that are looking to get into iOS development. First off, its desirable that you have some kind of coding experience. If you have worked with Objective C then there will be an easy transition. The next best bet would be..

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Animating between tab bar controllers in iOS

Ok let me clear something up first: From a UI perspective, there is little to no need to animate from a tab bar item to another tab bar item. The expectancy from the user when they click a tab bar item is that they will be immediately presented with the content associated with the tab..

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Validation and Alert

This a bit of a simple one, but one that I end up looking up all the time. Say you have a text field, but it is saved in your model as a NSNumber. Before conversion, you need to ensure the user has entered in a number and not something silly like ‘cow’. What we..

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Add option for Core Data to Tab Bar template in XCode

When starting a new project with XCode, you are often given the option to add CoreData to your project. I build almost every project using CoreData in some way (given most of my apps are business related, there needs to be some form of caching or data retention). However, for some reason, the option to..

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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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