Jay Versluis

Here’s a sample action that tries to open a LinkedIn Profile with the LinkedIn App. If it’s not installed, it opens a link to the profile in Safari. If that doesn’t work it gives a log message (please handle appropriately in your own code): – (IBAction)openLinkedIn:(id)sender { // open the LinkedIn App if (![[UIApplication sharedApplication] […]

Much like the Facebook Like button we can create a Twitter Follow button. It’s easy to create a HTML button which we can load into a small UIWebView (about 40 pixels high): – (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // add Twitter Follow button in a web view NSString *twitterFollowButton = @”<a href=’https://twitter.com/versluis’ class=’twitter-follow-button’ data-show-count=’true’ data-size=’large’>Follow @versluis</a><script>!function(d,s,id){var […]

Opening the Twitter App is pretty much the same as opening the Facebook App discussed earlier, just the URL scheme is different. This is how we open Twitter so people can follow the user (me in this case, versluis). If the call is unsuccessful, we’ll try to open the Twitter page in Safari. And if […]

Thanks to Custom URL Schemes, iOS Apps can register themselves and be “woken up” by another app (such as yours). Many can even accept parameters if you do. Opening another app happens via the UIApplication class, and an NSURL as parameter. Here’s how we open the Facebook App and direct it to open my Pinkstone […]

Adding a Facebook Like button to a website in HTML is extremely easy, thanks to Facebook’s Developer API. But it’s not as straightforward to implement it in an iOS App. Thanks to UIWebViews we can create a small web view, perhaps 80 pixels tall, and load the Facebook Like button into it. Here’s how: – […]

You can create an NSNumber with a BOOL like this: BOOL myBool = YES; NSNumber *boolNumber = [NSNumber numberWithBool:myBool]; NSLog(@”boolNumber is %@”, boolNumber); // gives 1 for YES and 0 for NO It is technically the equivalent of creating an NSNumber with a literal @1 or @0. To turn the NSNumber back into a BOOL […]

The NSDictionary class doesn’t have a length property that can tell us how much memory is being used for storing the whole lot. Usually we don’t really care how big our variables grow – but if you’re storing that dictionary somewhere with potentially limited space (such as iCloud Key/Value storage), it may well be of […]