Tools for iOS development

Xcode is the most popular toolset used to manage product development, design User interface components, edit and debug source code, analyze and improve application performance. It is also used for submitting your application to the app store as well as performing source control operations in iPhone development.

The first step to develop an iOS application is creation of an Xcode project. This project will manage all the information associated with your application. It also includes the source files, interface designs, and build settings needed to build your application.

The iPhone developers are going to work on this project through a workspace window. It provides a quick access to all the elements that make up your application. Here, if one needs some help regarding performing a task, Xcode also provides the contextual help, which you can access directly from the user interface element about which you need help.

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iPad programming: Developing a VoIP application

VoIP, stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, is a kind of application that allows the Users to make phone calls using an internet connection instead of the device’s cellular service. A constant network connection is a must to support the smooth usage of the VoIP application in iOS programming. The network services are basically associated with the receiving incoming calls and the other relevant data.

The iOS programming system allows these applications to be suspended at times and provides facilities for monitoring their sockets for them. When it comes to the incoming traffic, the system wakes up the VoIP application, and returns the control of its sockets to it.

The main communication socket needs to be aligned properly for the VoIP usage; for the iPhone/iPad application to maintain a persistent connection while it is in the background.

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iPhone to iPad programming: Moving ahead

iPhones and iPads  - these two are coined as favorite terms for all the mobile application developers these days. Any programmer, who is running an iPhone-optimized app on iPad will counter a letterboxed 1/3rd size or stretched and pixilated at double the native size. But still, the iPhone developers these take advantages of the latest UI-only conventions are poised to create an entirely ‘NEW’ class of powerful apps on iPads.

The big screen on iPad as compared to iPhone, allows the developers to offer on-screen controls much like a traditional Mac or Windows application.

The technocrats migrating from iPhone to iPad programming have already realized that they can utilize the top navigation bar as a fixed toolbar.

On iPhone, users often jump back and forth to reach essential off-screen options and functions, but on iPad contextual controls are introduced not by forcing the user away from content, but instead with navigation bars, edit boxes and popovers that allow users to linger on the main screen as they edit.

Now with iPad, Apple is challenging us once more to create the first generation of powerful, and robust applications for full-sized multi-touch.

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Getting a Flash Player on iPhone

We all are aware by this time that iPhone does not come with an inbuilt Flash player. Yes, it can be separately installed using the Jailbreaking technique, but again that is illegal thing. However, there are a plenty of iPhone plugins available in the market as well as on the internet to make this process smoother – and these plugins are either developed or discovered by the iPhone programmers. One of the available plugins is iMobileCinema plugin, and so on.

However, on a smarter note, one can always utilize the cloud computing on the iPhone. With the ‘Cloud Browse’ app, access flash players for use on your iPhone. Just follow the below steps:
Step 1: Go to the iPhone App store. Search ‘Cloud Browse’ app. Download the app once you find it.
Step 2: Launch the app on the iPhone, and press ‘Web’ icon button
Step 3: Enter the URL of the website where you wish to get the flash player working
Step 4: Play the flash file or files within that specific website on the iPhone

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Tips for iPhone development Beginners

iPhone development has been a very booming and promising sector from the point of view of the developers. Taking a somewhat different approach, here we are writing some tips and tricks to the beginners of the iPhone development process:

> Sharpen the minds for custom iPhone drawing and animation code
> Good speed and recall for the Xcode and interface builder
> Experience to work on the iPhone’s table views and other UI components
> Accessing the iPhone user inputs from touches, as well as from the core location of the code
> Setting up and managing the iPhone controls such as text fields, buttons and pickers
> The proficiency with objective-C 2.0 and the foundation framework for the iPhone development.
> Experience to work on the application state, user data and the navigation controllers

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View Controllers: Role in iOS projects

Today here, we will be bouncing back to the basics and going to discuss the View controllers. Let us start with the basic introduction of the View controllers and their role in the iOS projects development.

The View controllers are the core part of any iPhone application development. They act as a bridge between your models and your views. View controllers are both responsible for fetching/initializing your models as well as loading the views to display the information they contain.

The basic View controllers

Every view controller that Apple provides extends from the base UIViewController subclass. This gives the iPhone programmers a few basic properties that they might find handy. The most important is the view property. This is the basic reference to the view that the controller is managing.

Here are some of the basic view controllers to be discussed in this post:
> UINavigationController
> UITableViewController
> UITabBarController

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Installing Recovery Mode on an iPhone

Practically, one cannot install recovery mode on iPhone, as it is an in-built feature, but you can launch recovery mode if you need to restore the phone to its original factory settings. All you require is the USB cable that came with your iPhone and the iTunes software to accomplish this task. Once iTunes detects the device in recovery mode, you are able to easily restore the phone’s default software.

Here are the set of instructions:

>  Open the Apple iTunes on your computer

>  Connect the iPhone to computer using the USB cable

>  Turn off the iPhone

>  Press and hold the “Home” button until you see the silver Apple logo on a black screen

>  Press “Ok” button. Go to the left sidebar, select the iPhone under “Devices” and click the “Recover” button under the “Summary” tab

>  Click the “Continue” button to begin the iPhone recovery process, which restores your device back to its original factory settings and firmware.

Hope this post helps all the iPhone programmers as well as Users!

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Localizing iPhone Apps

Localization and Internationalization are complimentary activities. With localization, we can display cultural information like units, dates, etc. The User can change the language by going to Settings -> General -> International -> Language. When language is changed, the iPhone also changes the name of the application, only if the application supports it.

The step-wise guide goes as:

1.    The first step is to find out what languages your application is going to support and gather all the text, images, videos, sounds and put them in a resource file or in a language directory.
2.    Then, the iPhone developer needs to localize the strings file
3.    Creating the resource file using genstrings
4.    Localizing iPhone display name

Thus, since the iPhone application can be downloaded by anyone in any country, it becomes significant that the app looks and behaves according to the User’s locale, culture and more importantly – the language. And this objective can be easily achieved with the above steps.

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Linking iPhone with the Outlook

Linking iPhone with the Outlook

This is first of the 2 articles that will introduce the newer way for the iPhone developers to sync between the local mailbox and the iPhone.

Generally, people prefer Blackberry as a business smart phone, as it straight away gives an interface for the User to check the emails. However, as Apple has always stood out innovative, they have come up with the way to establish synchronization between iPhone and the Microsoft OutlookMailbox.

This can be basically done via 3 ways:

1.       Using iTunes (Wired connection)

2.       Using web service (Wireless connection)

3.       Sync using Enterprise Messaging server like Exchange

We will explain in details about each of them in our forthcoming blog posts. As iPhone has becoming a very popular business tool, members or the employee users of the device quite naturally want to be able to access and establish a connection between Outlook and iPhone email, calendar, contacts, etc. 

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Best Way to Hire An iPhone Application Developer

When there is increasing demand for development of iPhone applications for various different clients of verticals. The iPhone app developers have also started buckling their shoes as there is too much of competition and competitive mobile application. As these days companies hiring iPhone app developers do real good survey and then invest their money and time. As mobile users from all over the world greeted this newest technology with elevated morale.

Apple has released iPhone iOS 5 which is supported by the iCloud computing technology.  Instruments like iPhone, iPad and iTunes are going to be introduced with icloud technology.

Hiring an iPhone app developer is a task of talent hunt of developer. There are many way to identify an expert iPhone app developer.

1, need a developer’s registration id: the iPhone development company should have submitted an app to iTunes and so he would be provided with a registration id

2, you can also ask for the work portfolio and references of work done for various clients so you can have a very bios opinion of work done

3, the iPhone programmer who has worked on the similar project as yours can be with more strong back ground

4, the iPhone software developers should be profession in work and would have better understanding about the requirements.

5, the deliverable must be in the specifically decided time frame

6, more or less the iPhone application developers should be able to work in any field like entertainment, finance, corporate, health care etc.

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