iOS Application Development

Hashing library for iOS and how it can be used in conjunction with .Net hashing

Posted by on February 5, 2012 at 7:23 pm

I’m working on an iPhone / iPad app that needs to be able to authenticate itself to the server from which it requests data. The users of the app will have an account with the website so they will already have a username / password. There is no SSL functionality, so I needed a way [...]

Hiding the Keyboard when touching background

Posted by on February 4, 2012 at 2:44 pm

If you are working on an iOS app and have the need for the user the enter input then you usually use a textfield or textview. I was working on a login screen and had a very annoying experience where the keyboard wouldn’t go away after I had finished entering my text. What was especially [...]

iPhone and iPad naming conventions, icon descriptions, and icon sizes

Posted by on October 2, 2011 at 10:31 pm

The below table is a description of iphone icons and ipad icons, what they’re sizes and should be, and what their standardized names are. This information is all over, but the a thorough and yet concise version (and what i based the below on) can be found here. Name Size (pixels) Platform Icon.png 57 x [...]

How to let your iphone or ipad apps check for network access – reachability

Posted by on September 29, 2011 at 10:22 pm

I have recently been working on a new iOS app for the iPhone and I ran into a couple of issues. I don’t really have time to go over them all in this post, but I did want to document one of them because I hear it can be a big deal as far as [...]