By default the Google Wave interface in Firefox on a PC has a lot of thrown at you. I was curious how the service looked on a small device, in this case, an iPhone. First thing out the gate was not reassuring. Yes, it’s a dreaded “unsupported browser” message: From Google Wave on the iPhone… Read More »
After running into a nasty (read: can’t figure it the problem) EXC_BAD_ACCESS error I turned to guard malloc. Enabling guard malloc in Xcode is deceptively simple: Run > Enable Guard Malloc. Done. Easy right? It would be, and I believe it is supposed to be this simple. Of course when I run the app in… Read More »
I’ve been trying to write unit tests for any iPhone apps that I write. With Xcode, that’s much much easier said than done (it should not be this difficult!). I’ve tired a couple of frameworks and tried to follow several steps found on Google. So far nothing is doing the trick. My latest effort followed… Read More »
Surprisingly there are not a lot of options for Objective-C Twitter libraries. In fact there are exactly two options: MGTwitterEngine and Canary (which is actually a “full-fledged client”). The choice looks clear, use MGTwitterEngine or deal with XML directly (yuck!). MGTwitterEngine does not implement the entire Twitter API but it does implement the most important… Read More »
As some of you may know, I’ve got an app in the iPhone App Store called Xbox Points. It’s a free app that does one thing: convert Microsoft Points to various currencies including USD, USD, AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, and JPY. Last I checked, there were three or four iPhone apps that have this exact… Read More »
I somehow missed the flurry of Apple news today, so I was surprised to see the updates to iTunes Connect when I wanted to check up on the number of downloads for my first iPhone App Store application (it was approved late last night). I haven’t seen much talk on the Apple’s App Store ratings,… Read More »
A quick look at NSUserDefaults suggests saving app data with Cocoa and the iPhone SDK is easy. I haven’t gotten much of a chance to use it so there might be some gotchas. To store nonsensitive data using NSUserDefaults is as easy as a couple of lines of code: [objc] NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];… Read More »
PLEASE NOTE (2009-08-12): You probably do not want to use this method (though it’s great for learning). A much better solution is to use the gdata-objectivec-client. Example code on using that library can be found in one of my projects hosted on github. I’ve been working on an iPhone app that uses one of Google’s… Read More »
I’ve been spending time lately learning to use Objective-C and the iPhone API. While trying to deploy a sample iPhone app through Xcode, I ran into a pesky error message. Your mobile device has encountered an unexpected error (0xE800003A) during the install. Application verification failed. Configuring Xcode is a quick and easy two step process… Read More »