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Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

I think uploading is only an issue for large apps. Small apps you can do via the Web interface.

# ¿ Oct 10, 2011 09:32

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 21:35

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

pokeyman posted:

Under no circumstances should you start with C++, that will do nothing to help you. I'd skip C and jump right into Objective-C.

While I agree that C++ is of no use, I disagree with skipping C. Objective C is a superset of C, so knowing C is a useful.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2011 22:13

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

KarmaticStylee posted:

I'm pretty sure I know the answer already but is there no way to program for iOS on a Windows machine?

Flash CS5 will build iOS apps on Windows, I think.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2011 02:27

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Any suggestions on good ARC tutorials for those who've been at this for a while?

Also - anybody have any QA firms they can recommend?

# ¿ Nov 27, 2011 04:32

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

So, rjmccall, when can we expect C1X support in Clang?

# ¿ Dec 27, 2011 08:38

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Is there a good way to "debug" what your application has on iCloud?

# ¿ Jan 14, 2012 22:19

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Bob Morales posted:

Dink around with Ruby/Python or something for a little bit and jump into C/Objective-C

As someone who spent a few years teaching programming, I'm going to second this advice.

C/C++/ObjC are comparatively difficult and not good starter languages for novices.

# ¿ Feb 4, 2012 01:50

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Well I'm looking forward to seeing a retina screen iPad simulator.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2012 20:19

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

What's the equivalent of "backtrace" on the LLVM debugger?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2012 19:37

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Looks like Xcode 4.3.1 has finally dropped.

edit: haha, the retina iPad simulator scrolls.

edit 2: I wonder what the maximum texture size is.

Small White Dragon fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Mar 8, 2012

# ¿ Mar 7, 2012 22:29

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

I'm developing a command line OS X utility in Xcode.

Is there a way to get Xcode to put resources with the resultant binary for testing purposes?

When I run it in 4.3.1, sometimes the debugger window at the bottom vanishes as soon as the utility has finished running -- which is annoying, since I wanted to see its output. Any idea how I can get fix this?

# ¿ Mar 18, 2012 10:48

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

duck monster posted:

Command line stuff is pretty much mach-o (like linux's elf) is a single-stream file, so you'll need to put your support resources somewhere hardwired, or perhaps specified in a .ini file or something.

~/Library/Application Support/<your app> is as good a place as any.

Keep in mind .app files are actually just little directorys of files with some mac-gui magic to make them pretend to be a single file.

You *could* put it relative to the binary and then use a symlink to hook it to /usr/bin if you wish. That'd probably work I guess.

I'm aware of the structure, I just wanted to know if I could get Xcode to copy test files into the same directory rather than hardcoding a bunch of paths in the binary.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2012 01:06

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

What tools (if any) are people using for Project Management?

# ¿ Apr 18, 2012 09:41

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Glad I didn't want to go to WWDC that badly this year. Tickets went on sale at 5:30am Pacific Time, and sold out in two hours :psyduck:

# ¿ Apr 26, 2012 01:53

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Is there a way to determine what kind of event is putting the application in the background?

Are there any calls/events I can listen for other than "applicationWillResignActive" and "applicationDidEnterBackgriund:" events?

# ¿ May 6, 2012 22:49

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Rather than writing it in Objective C and porting it later for Android, I'd like to try simultaneous development for an upcoming project. Anybody else doing this, and if so, what are you using? MonoTouch?

# ¿ Jun 6, 2012 08:13

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

So top rumor on MacRumors is that we might actually see third-party apps on the AppleTV.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2012 19:00

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Kallikrates posted:

I think someone at apple read texts from XCode.

Did they fix some of this?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2012 19:32

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

The redemption codes you can generate for your app -- can they still only be used in the US?

# ¿ Aug 6, 2012 05:03

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

I notice Clang is now auto-generating variables for @properties. It's generating errors in projects I've ported from Xcode 4.3, and frankly, I don't want it to do this. How do I turn this off?

# ¿ Aug 8, 2012 07:13

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Has anyone had issues with MPVolumeView not showing up at all? (Seems to occur on both simulator and device!)

# ¿ Sep 9, 2012 14:27

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

ultramiraculous posted:

FYI: This took me way too long to figure out, but apparently the the way to get an existing app to start doing 4" layouts is to define a 4"-sized default image in the project file. Did I miss some documentation on this?

Is there a set naming convention for this, ala @2x files?

# ¿ Sep 13, 2012 09:17

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

lord funk posted:

Is there a clever way to force -viewDidUnload to simulate performance with low memory conditions? I'm only getting the unloaded view action about 15% of the time when I test for it, and I'd rather just trigger it and see what happens.

The simulator does have a menu option to simulate low memory condition actions.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2012 11:39

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Is there a way to designate a different minimum OS version for iPhone/iPod vs iPad?

# ¿ Sep 16, 2012 11:32

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

tarepanda posted:

They will not have any network access.

How do you enforce that?

# ¿ Sep 19, 2012 07:04

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

I know it represents a shrinking portion of the market, but I'm kind of bummed that XCode 4.5 doesn't support armv6.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2012 01:43

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Anybody know of a way to get a modal UINavigationController (and its children) to re-lay themselves out after hiding/showing the statusbar?

# ¿ Sep 24, 2012 11:49

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

I'm trying NSMetadataQuery to let iCloud let me know of updates.

However:

code:

            query.predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"%K LIKE '*'", NSMetadataItemFSNameKey];
            query.searchScopes = [NSArray arrayWithObject:
                                  NSMetadataQueryUbiquitousDocumentsScope];
            
            // Subscribe to query updates
            [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserverForName:
             NSMetadataQueryDidUpdateNotification  .....

only seems to let me know when files are added/deleted, and not when they're updated.

Any suggestions?

# ¿ Sep 27, 2012 09:43

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Is this the appropriate thread to discuss MonoTouch? Or Flash/Flex?

(If anybody else is using that. Trying it currently.)

Small White Dragon fucked around with this message at 11:34 on Oct 6, 2012

# ¿ Oct 6, 2012 11:15

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Anybody have experience with Airplay?

I'm curious how to output different content to the second display than you display on the iOS device itself.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2012 07:03

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

I have a bunch of view controller inside a UITabBarController.

In one instance, I'd like to hide the tab bar on demand (typically when certain views are rotated into landscape).

Any idea on how to do this? I tried self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden = YES but that just leaves an unusable space at the bottom.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 23:06

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Anybody have any good scripts for retrieving exchange rates from iTunes Connect?

# ¿ Feb 27, 2013 09:57

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

gooby on rails posted:

If this is for an IAP store, it's not exposed like that, you're expected to retrieve the price in local currency from the SKProduct and the currency symbol from the locale.

No, I don't mean in-app, I actually mean retrieving the information about your proceeds on iTunes Connect.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2013 11:19

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

j4on posted:

Lurker checking in. We didn't write a single line of C, but we just released an app written in AS3 and compiled through Flash CS6. Anyone else using that workflow? If anyone has questions about that, I'd be happy to answer what I can. Generally I'm really glad we chose to go that way.

Did you also release it for Android or any other platforms?

# ¿ Mar 5, 2013 09:37

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Anyone have any recommendations for services for a team to share large art assets?

# ¿ Mar 7, 2013 10:43

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

I thought I saw something about making or accessing iTunes purchases in-app? (Not purchases related to your app, but generic music, video, .etc) Am I imagining things?

# ¿ Apr 4, 2013 22:41

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

pokeyman posted:

I'm not really sure what you're asking for but maybe SKStoreProductViewController?

That will do the trick! Well, it should anyway, but it doesn't seem to accept some media types. Bug tracker time!

# ¿ Apr 5, 2013 01:11

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

Kind of random, but:

I see some Android phones are sporting ~460 dpi displays. What do people think the chances are we see an "@3x" display soon?

Anyone know the Apple policy on using "Retina" in an app title?

# ¿ Apr 25, 2013 09:00

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

ultramiraculous posted:

I've got a pretty sessy hack that automagically replaces images with their iPhone 5/tallified equivalent, if available. Swizzling meant that I could completely avoid keeping up with a bunch of if/else statements and separate nibs. I would have released it, but I didn't want it to end up on the Apple police's list of things to capriciously look for. In the end, I'm just mad that Apple didn't add something like "@2x" for tall assets, because that's basically what I wedged in there.

Does iOS no longer automatically load the 568h@2x images? I know it used to.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2013 07:55

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 21:35

Small White Dragon: Nov 23, 2007; No relation.

I remember hearing back in the day that you could only expand the devices supported in App Updates, and not reduce. However, using a recent Xcode means no mean armv7 and a higher minimum iOS target in an update, I assume that is okay?

# ¿ Aug 11, 2013 07:59

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