Networking is hard. There are various moving parts involved and many factors need to be considered to make it work. Fortunately, a number of open-source libraries have emerged over time to make networking easier. AFNetworking, created and maintained by the people of Gowalla, is one such library. This tutorial will introduce you to the AFNetworking framework while also showing how to query the iTunes Store API!
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This iOS Quick Tip will teach you how to easily animate objects with UIKit. Whether you need sliding menus or flying monkeys, it’s easy to get it done, and this tip will show you how!
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When working with data intensive applications, a developer must often do more than just show lists of data records in a table view. The CorePlot library will allow you to add stunning data visualizations to your applications. Find out how in this Tuts+ Premium series!
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Categories provide the ability to add functionality to an object without subclassing or changing the actual object. A handy tool, they are often used to add methods to existing classes, such as NSString or your own custom objects.
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When working with data intensive applications, a developer must often do more than just show lists of data records in a table view. The CorePlot library will allow you to add stunning data visualisations to your applications. Find out how in this Tuts+ Premium series!
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In today’s quick tip, you’ll learn about the NSNotification class while building a demo project to monitor changes in the device orientation. Let’s get started!
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UIKit provides developers with UIActivityIndicatorView, which is nothing more than a spinner. However, this simple UIView subclass tells the user that something is in progress -a vital UX consideration. In this tutorial, I will tell you all about UIActivityIndicatorView and, as an added bonus, I will introduce you to MBProgressHUD, an activity indicator class on steroids!
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Engage your users with stunning carousels! We’ll look at how easy and clean it can be to implement scrollable, interactive carousels in your iOS applications. With high configurability, you can have 3D, flat, rotating, and endless scrolling arrays for data, images, and buttons.
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In this quick-tip tutorial, I’ll show you how to quickly create a UITabBar application with Storyboards in Xcode 4. Let’s go!
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Deciding which version of the iOS platform to support can be a difficult decision. Each new operating system release brings with it exciting new features and tools, but unfortunately these features are not always backward compatible with older OS releases (i.e. Storyboarding with iOS 5). So, how concerned are you with the backward compatibility of your iOS applications, and which versions of the operating system do you target with new app releases?
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