If you’re displaying images from the main iOS bundle, things are fairly straightforward: self.imageView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@”Amy.png”]; But if you have an NSURL to your image then it’s not as easy. It took me some digging to find out that you have to convert the URL into NSData first, and then display the data: NSData […]
You can do this either by using paths or NSURLs. Apple recommends using NSURLs, so here’s how it works. In this example we’re copying a file called “Amy.png” which exists in the app’s main bundle. // file URL in our bundle NSURL *fileFromBundle = [[NSBundle mainBundle]URLForResource:@”Amy” withExtension:@”png”]; // Destination URL NSURL *destinationURL = [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory]URLByAppendingPathComponent:@”Amy.png”]; […]
Sometimes it can be useful to split your Core Data Store File across multiple files. For example, one file could live on the local file system, while the other could live in iCloud. We can do this by telling the Xcode Model Editor to add more than one Configuration, each of which can be allocated […]
I’ve been recently using Tumblr more to post sketches from all kinds of devices, and naturally I wanted to embed them in some of my websites’ sidebars.
I found the extremely helpful Tumblr Widget plugin by Gabriel Roth for this: install, drag in the widget add Tumblr URL. Done!
I wanted my images to be in a size that the widget didn’t offer, so I did some tweaking – perhaps it’ll help if you’re in a similar situation.