UIPrerenderedIcon
If you would like to render your iPhone application icon without any sheen and bevel effects added by iPhone OS, then add the boolean value
UIPrerenderedIcon=YES
in your application’s info.plist. Adding this key will instruct iPhone OS not to add the additonal effect around the icon and leave it as it is. On the left is a screenshot of one of the application’s – BubbleWrap(marked in red square)available on the Apple App store which use UIPrerenderedIcon= YES.
<key>UIPrerenderedIcon</key> <true/>
The television, whether we like it or not, will continue to evolve into a delivery mechanism for more than just an antenna, cable connection, or satellite television. Adobe wants to Flash to become the standard on many sections of the home entertainment category. This includes televisions, DVD players, and game consoles. Read the rest of this entry »
UIApplication* myApplication = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
myApplication.networkActivityIndicatorVisible = YES;
Network Activity Indicator
Apple barely scratched the surface on all of the new features in store for the iPhone OS 3.0. Apple apparently decided to save a few pleasant surprises for the official release of iPhone OS 3.0. Two biggies are: video recording and Internet tethering functionalities.
Internet tethering allows the user to share their cellular data network to their desktop machines over bluetooth or USB.
iPhone Internet Tethering Settings
Internet Tethering
In addition, subscribers to Apple’s MobileMe suite of cloud services will be able to locate stolen a device geographically using the web interface.
There you go — Apple has just announced that its Worldwide Developer Conference 2009 will take place from June 8th through June 12th in sunny San Fransico. Apple has a few surprises up its collective sleeve. So what do you guys think? Netbook? Snow Leopard? Tablet? More than one new iPhone model? Hit the comments section and be heard.
WWDC 2009
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Few months back I had developed an Adobe Flex based application enabiling users to search and order pre-owned cars. There are two applications in the project
Apple has now posted iPhone SDK 3.0 beta 3 and iPhone OS 3.0 beta 3 to the iPhone Dev Center. Developers can now test their applications that will use the Apple Push Notification service.
This is one of my first posts on Adobe Flex related topic….i hope to write more on these in future…
I have developed a component extending the functionality of Grid. In my component, it divides the screen into 4 parts and there is a centeral button which the user can drag to resize any of the four sides. You can see the demo at:- http://www.macoscoders.com/demo/navgizmo/
But I always think my component can be best done using DividedBox instead of Grid. whats your take on this? (People at Adobe suggested me that Grid would soon see an end or its not recommended to use Grid)
Apple’s has announced a push notification service for the iPhone OS 3.0. It’ll maintain a persistent IP connection to the phone and let a 3rd party server ping Apple’s notification service in order to push out notifications to applications installed on iPhone OS 3.0, which can be in the form of badges, sounds or custom textual alerts.
Check the opensource cool stuff about iPhone programming here at:-
http://code.google.com/p/iphone-sdk-programming-book-code-samples/
The new software upgrade (still in Beta) for iPhone brings several much anticipated functions. These finally bring the iPhone up to the level of any other smartphone in terms of features. With 3.0 we finally have a mature product. Let’s in detail all the new features.
This top requested feature works across all applications and it’s easy to use. Apple interface designers managed to come up with a good solution for the touch interface.
It’s that time again. More iPhone rumors and speculation–including predictions that Apple will release a variety of iPhone devices, and that the company will add features like video capture and video chat–have come to light.
The iPhone’s already been taken up a notch with Apple’s OS 3.0 that has seriously enhanced the functionality of the device. Of course it would be stupid to imagine that Apple would stop there and we’re all very anxiously waiting to see what the next gen iPhone itself is going to be like. Read the rest of this entry »
Add the following line of code to stop the iPhone from going to sleep mode. (Use it judiciously, it will drain the device battery.)
[[ UIApplication sharedApplication ] setIdleTimerDisabled: YES ];
To hide the status bar in iPhone, edit the Info.plist of your application by adding the below key.
<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
<true />
or programmatically hide or show the status bar by invoking:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];
