UIKit

Creating a Map Based Application on the iPhone Part 2

The next thing I’m going to go through is how to push a new view onto the stack when the user taps the annotation’s call out button. This is relatively straight forward with one annotation, but is a little bit more complicated when it comes to multiple annotations that have all been created dynamically. In Continue reading Creating a Map Based Application on the iPhone Part 2

UITextViews can automatically detect URLs and phone numbers

Quick tip: Everyone knows that when you create a UITextView in Interface Builder you can easily switch it to automatically detect URLs, but recently I was looking for the code to do this dynamically and all I code find was a 15 line REG EX. So here’s how to set text fields to dynamically detect Continue reading UITextViews can automatically detect URLs and phone numbers

Creating a Map Based Application on the iPhone Part 1

Everybody seems to want a map based mobile application these days. It’s like the late 90s all over again but with mobile devices instead of Netscape. So to lighten my work load a bit I’m going to show you how to go about making your own, and a few tricks I’ve learnt along the way. Continue reading Creating a Map Based Application on the iPhone Part 1