In my last post about dynamic pattern images , I showed how to create images on the fly for use as background pattern images. As promised, today I’ll show how to create composite images with cutouts using masks.
Continue reading →The image handling capabilities available in iOS (and OS X for that matter) are pretty spectacular. Using only high level APIs, you can work with images quite easily. But lurking very close to the high level APIs is Core Graphics, … Continue reading →
A slight departure from the thing we all love doing (writing code) to a thing some of us may have to spend time on (system administration). We added a fourth Mac to our home network recently, and I wanted to … Continue reading →
This is an old and common thing to do in an iOS app. Doing it well — or at all — it turns out, is pretty easy, but perhaps not obvious.
Continue reading →I would hope this is obvious to anyone who’s been around the iOS eco-system during an iOS beta period: Make sure your apps will continue to work with the new release!
Continue reading →Two things happened recently that have each, in their own way, de-railed me to some extent. The details of each instance should be interesting to iOS developers and Rails developers alike.
Continue reading →Since April I’ve delivered a surprising number of apps to the App Store, and I thought I’d give a brief summary of those projects and what made (or makes) them interesting.
Continue reading →Recently I was interviewed by Lee Shen Han for his blog Beginning iOS Development. That interview is now available here. Lee devotes a section of his blog to interviewing indie iOS developers so we can all learn from each others … Continue reading →
It turns out that building multiple targets from one source code base is both easy and hard, both simple and complex. It all depends not only on the ultimate products you want to create, but a bit on your workflow … Continue reading →
Several months ago I wrote about some tricks I was using to build many targets from one code base. The rubber is meeting the road on that project as we get closer to being ready to submit to Apple, and … Continue reading →