Archive for the ‘iOS’ Category


Reading and writing zip files on the iPhone

By on December 23rd, 2010 in iOS Comments (4)

I’ve looked through a number of zip file libraries on iOS, and I would recommend using Objective-Zip. It wraps ZLib and MiniZip with a fairly intuitive Objective-C interface, and provides some nice functionality like being able to easily access the metadata for each file in the archive. Using it is pretty straightforward, just grab the…

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Top 5 iPad apps I’d pay good money for

By on March 5th, 2010 in iOS Comments (5)

Note: this is just my personal list of apps I would actually be willing to pay for if someone built them. Some of these ideas may already exist in some form on the iPhone, but I think they would work much better with the iPad’s large touchscreen. A recipe manager I do a lot of…

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Adding a persistent ad banner to a UITabBar

By on February 8th, 2010 in iOS Comments (6)

Here’s a little tip for anyone that wants to add a persistent ad banner above the UITabBar to their tab navigation based iPhone app. I’ve seen a few apps do this so I was fairly surprised when a quick search of Google and StackOverflow turned up absolutely nothing. After all, it seems like it would…

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