Year: 2013

Xcode 5 is nice… but it has habits that drive me up the wall. For example, no matter which Base SDK you compile with, your Navigation Bars will always look translucent – no matter how hard you try to avoid this in the Storyboard, and no matter which iOS Version you deploy to. Would have […]

I’ve been battling with those AppDelegate methods for a while, thinking “I wish there was a way that I don’t have to use those methods”. And guess what: there is! Instead of adding code where it doesn’t make sense, we can listen to a system wide notification that tells us our app has come into […]

Sometimes you need the opposite of a BOOL. This is actually easier than I had expected – because the opposite of YES is !YES and the opposite of NO is !NO. More examples here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6829573/reversing-a-bool

Now that we can read from and write to iCloud, how will we know when another device may have written new data? We’ll do this by adding an observer and listening to a special message iCloud transmits every time new data is available. The message has the catchy title NSUbiquitousKeyValueStoreDidChangeExternallyNotification. Here’s how we can setup […]

Using iCloud as Key/Value storage is almost identical to NSUserDefaults, except it populates to iCloud in the background and can be read from any device on the same account. What I find much harder than the code is how to make this work in Xcode. Here’s what we need: an App ID that has iCloud […]

I’ve previously written about how to retain iOS 6 Legacy Look when deploying your apps to iOS 7. This can be achieved by simply using Xcode 4.6.3 to compile and submit your apps to the App Store. The good news is that there is a way to do this with Xcode 5 too, and therefore […]