iPhone Development Blog

Fancy UILabels

Craig Hockenberry’s battles with improving the scrolling performance of UITableView.

Cocoa for Scientists (Part XXVIII): Bonjour and How Do You Do?

A great article on low level networking: How do you find and talk to another iPhone or Mac?

iPhone Developer’s Cookbook, The: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK, Adobe Reader

Erica Sadun’s book is now published. It’s a very good read. My only complaint is that there’s more emphasis on private APIs then I’m comfortable with.

Sample code for the book is available here.

Update: The sample code contains a description on how to use the coverflow API hidden in the bowels of the iPhone. Apple has since rejected apps that use this private API.

The How and Why of Cocoa Initializers

While not specifically an iPhone topic, there has been a long ongoing controversy among Cocoa developers on how to properly write init methods. Bottom line is to follow Apple’s example. This article explains why.

written by Nick \\ tags: Bonjour, book, init, UILabel, UITableView

Now that the NDA has been lifted it’s going to be a lot easier to find interesting links to other blogs discussing iPhone Development.

Code Sample Videos

Erica Sadun has posted sample videos accompanying her upcoming iPhone Programmer’s Cookbook. 

Glassy Scrolling with UITableView

Some great advice on improving the performance of table views.

Sliding UITextFields around to avoid the keyboard

Managing the keyboard and ensuring that text fields are visible when you enter text is painful. Matt Gallagher presents a generic solution to this problem.

Cocoa Touch Tutorial: iPhone Application Example

A very nice tutorial from Matt Long on creating your first iPhone application using Interface Builder.

A touch of Cocoa: inside the iPhone SDK

A series of articles describing the software internals of the iPhone.

written by Nick \\ tags: Interface Builder, SDK, UITableView, UITextField