iOS7 Series – UIKit Dynamics Incorporating UIKitDynamics into your app is pretty simple! The great thing about it is that you really get the most bang for your buck because the end result has a really big WOW Factor which is certain to impress your users. Let’s take a quick conceptual drive around UIKitDynamics. First we adopt the protocol into the ViewController which will implement UIKitDynamics, why? Well because the objects which will be animated in the end will have to send back a lot of signals like “Hey, I collided with a boundary” or “hey I just hit somebody else and I was going this fast, in this… Read More
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GCD helps improve your apps performance and responsiveness by outsourcing processes that require a lot or computing power to the background while keeping your UI responsive. Normally you might want to do some heavy lifting. Let’s create an Empty Application. You need to declare a IBOutlet UIImageView *imageView ivar in your appDelegate, make it a property and synthesize it in .m and make the connection in Interface Builder, IB. In it’s viewDidLoad method put the following code: // Download the image NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@”http://www.santiapps.com/assets/bbkoko.jpg”]; NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]; NSURLResponse *res = [[NSURLResponse alloc] init]; NSError *err = nil; NSData *data = nil; data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req returningResponse:&res… Read More
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iOS is undoubtedly a great touch UI. However, it needs a refresh, it’s long overdue for an overhaul. Not just a “new widget” type refresh but a real overhaul. If we can make a robot that flies millions of miles to explore a hostile planet… SEARCHING FOR APPS The whole repetitive process of searching for apps in the AppStore, installing them, updating them everyday and switching between them is getting so old, so 2012! We’re are in the era of Robots that travel millions of space miles to do their thing. Robots that park cars, help the elderly etc. Our robots are getting smarter by the day. We need our… Read More
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