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Rounded avatars seem to be very fashionable these days. Even Apple adopted the rounded images for contacts. If you’re wondering how to achieve this in your app here is the answer. All we need to do is adjust the CALayer Continue reading Rounded images
Xcode is the most used IDE for iOS development. Apple is doing a great job in updating and adding features to it. Knowing how to take advantage of its capabilities can help you code faster and more efficiently. Xcode’s workspace Continue reading Xcode 5 – Tips and tricks
Every app has to work with some data and this data is usually structured in custom classes. A music app will probably have a Song class, a chat app will have a Friend class, a recipe app will have a Continue reading How to sort NSArray with custom objects in it
iOS 7 has a very good adoption rate, however you might still want to support people that are running older versions of iOS. You can load different storyboards or xib files, different launch screens and handle API differences. You can Continue reading How to check iOS version at runtime
Let’s assume we have these strings: NSString *firstString = @”This is the start”; NSString *secondString = @”of a great”; NSString *thirdString = @” sentence that ends here”; The easiest way to concatenate two strings is by using the stringByAppendingString: method. Continue reading How to concatenate strings
When the user taps in a text field, that text field becomes the first responder and automatically asks the system to display the associated keyboard. The appearance of the keyboard might obscure portions of the UI that you would like Continue reading How to make UITextField move up when keyboard is present
When you are dealing with UITextFields one thing you need to handle is the showing and hiding of the keyboard. To show the keyboard all you need to do is make your text field the first responder like this: [self.myTextField Continue reading How to manage the keyboard for a UITextField