Creating iPhone Apps Tip #6 – How To Change Background Color

There are two ways to change the background color of a view, in code and through interface builder. I thought it would be helpful to go through both these options real quick.

First Interface Builder:

Click on your view object and make sure that you have the Utilities View open. Then click on the Attributes Inspector on the right. You should see a section for view and in that [...] Read more

Creating iPhone Apps Video #4 – Intro To XCode

Here is a real quick introduction to XCode along with some useful Hot Keys and Shortcuts.

Let me know if there are any other iPhone development tutorial videos you would like to see. Or anything on Objective C.

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Creating iPhone Apps Tip #5 – How To Create An Alert

In case you need to know how to create an alert easily for your iPhone application here are the quick steps.

UIAlertView *ourAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"newAlert"
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Creating iPhone Apps Video #3 – Adding an Icon

I wanted to share a quick video I created to help you add an icon to your application. I go through the steps you need in order to add an icon to your iPhone application.

Let me know if there are any other iPhone development tutorial videos you would like to see. Or anything on Objective C.

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Creating iPhone Apps Tip #4 – List of XCode Shortcuts (Hotkeys)

I wanted to give you some quick shortcuts for XCode that might be helpful. I find that when I take the time to learn hot keys they help speed up my development time and get me comfortable with the software that I am using.

For starters here are some basics-

1. ⌘R – Run
2. ⌘B – Build
3. ⌘S – Save
4. ⌘Y – Activate Breakpoints
5. ⌘\ – Add Breakpoint on this [...] Read more

How To Make A Simple Tab Bar Application

Now that we have created a simple window base application we will move on to create a simple Tab Bar Application. To start with open XCode again and create a Tab Bar Application like below:

Then I am going to call mine MyNewTabApp, but feel free to name yours whatever is the most appropriate for you.

Now for this tutorial I am going to use Interface builder a little bit. Click [...] Read more

Creating iPhone Apps Video #2 – Creating A Simple iPhone App

Here is a quick video on how to create a simple iPhone app. I touch on creating a UIButton in code and on creating an alert.

Let me know if there are any other iPhone development tutorial videos you would like to see. Or anything on Objective C.

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Creating iPhone Apps Tip #3 – How To Add An Icon

When you are just getting started one of the most exciting things can be to setup an iPhone icon for your new app. First off you need to have an image that is 57×57 pixels in size. Then you will want to go to the project folder and place the image either inside the preexisting image folder or create one and then place it there. Once you image is [...] Read more

Developing My First Elance iPhone App

As I mentioned in the post title Creative Egg Mobile I have started using Elance to develop some of my apps. We have gotten a few revisions back and I wanted to take a second to walk you through the unfinished app and show what is going on. The app that we decided to create was a Running Stat Tracker. We have seen a few stat trackers that [...] Read more

Creating iPhone Apps Tip #2 – How To Clear Your iPhone Simulator

When you get started developing you will notice that you can use different simulator for different versions of the iPhone and iPad. These can be found in the top left right next to the “Run” and “Stop” buttons. In the drop down you will see something like this:

You will also notice that as you create more and more applications you will need to get rid of old instances of [...] Read more