Comments for Steili.com

Comment on Quick Look: iPhone Sketchbook by Kapsoft by sid

sid — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:46:38 +0000

Great book!! I just needed that. I think its not available near my store, but I’m gonna create my own sketchbook (just need to scan the iPhone on a piece of graph-paper)

Comment on Building an iPhone App Without Interface Builder by Brian M. Lima

Brian M. Lima — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:16:36 +0000

This has to be the best tutorial I have seen yet on iphone apps.

As a veteran emacs gent I want to write code, not play within the confines of someone else’s GUI App. After trying interface builder for a few hours I realized that it just was not a tool for building complex applications, I was further disappointed that I could not find some functionality to export a window as just the raw code it would take to build it locally.

Not only did you give me a good starting point from an XCode project, but I also saw the basics of allocation,release, and some syntax examples that shed just the right amount of light on the some of the differences between Objective C and the languages I am used to writing in.

Anyway, you have probably saved me days of reading — trial and error, this will be one of the first tutorials I show new engineers.

Cheers!

Comment on Building an iPhone App Without Interface Builder by brandon

brandon — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:06:54 +0000

Without seeing the code it’s really hard to say what was done. There’s an off chance that the NIB files are only there for the purpose of using them to push the view onto the screen and then all the UI elements are still being built in code. But if you were really building the whole app in code you wouldn’t really need the NIB files at all.

I guess long story short – fire up Xcode and see what’s in the nib files. If all the UI elements are there – then you didn’t get what you asked for. If they’re all just blank windows then whoever built the app was just using them to control the view size and still building all the elements manually.

Comment on Building an iPhone App Without Interface Builder by Gregory Thomson

Gregory Thomson — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:47:10 +0000

Hello,
I have a question about building an iPhone app programmatically without using Interface Builder.
I outsourced a project to have a developer develop an iPhone app.
I asked that it be built programmatically without using Interface Builder so that I could better see how the coding gets done to create everything.
The developer sent an initial version of the GUI after a month and a half. It has about a dozen .NIB files – one for each of the screens.
Doesn’t that mean that he didn’t actually build the screens programmatically? I have yet to open the project on the Mac, so I can probably tell more then how he did things. Note: what he sent isn’t intended to be a prototype, as I gave him the design for the GUI, so no prototype really needed.
Pretty depressing when I look at what I requested, and see what he sent back, though – I asked for a 747, and got a glider in return I think.

Comment on Excellent iPhone Email App Tutorial by brandon

brandon — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:58:42 +0000

http://code.google.com/p/skpsmtpmessage/

To my understanding sending en email w/ an attachment is a no go unless you use your own smtp… which is what the goal of the above project was. Let me know how that works out for you!

Comment on Excellent iPhone Email App Tutorial by rich

rich — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:30:56 +0000

Great tut, thank you so much. I was figuring out how to incorperate email into my app, this confirmed that what I was doing is fine, the only thing is, I am still trying to see if I can send the file my app created, any suggestions?

Thank you again.

Comment on 3.0 beta. Not going so well. by pushka ben

pushka ben — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:28:24 +0000

this happened to me too..

what the hell >__< AHHHHHH
this sucks so bad…. whyy~~

if you fix it, email me~~

Comment on Excellent iPhone Email App Tutorial by brandon

brandon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:21:59 +0000

No problem – glad you got it sorted. You’ll come to find you spend a lot of your time beating your head against the desk, only to find it was something you thought you already tried…

Comment on Excellent iPhone Email App Tutorial by SirChasm

SirChasm — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:36:12 +0000

@brandon Thanks Brandon! That was it- I could have sworn I tried that too.. The video specifically says to use lowercase in one place then shows Mixed in another but I guess it taught me a valuable lesson. Cheers!

Comment on Excellent iPhone Email App Tutorial by brandon

brandon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:33:55 +0000

Try this instead:

UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft

Cocoa is case sensitive – so UIInterfaceOrientationlandscapeLeft is not the same as UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft