Understanding XML and JSON Parsing in iOS Programming
One of the most important tasks that a developer has to deal with when creating applications is the data handing and manipulation. Data can be expressed in many different formats, and mastering at least the most known of them...
How to Access iOS Calendar, Events and Reminders Using Event Kit Framework
One of the not so well-known frameworks existing on iOS (and Mac OS), is the Event Kit framework. This framework has one purpose only, to let us access the calendars, the events and the reminders of a device, and work with them....
How to Use SQLite to Manage Data in iOS Apps
Among the numerous applications existing on the App Store today, it would be hard for someone to find more than a few of them that do not deal with data. Most of the apps handle some sort of data, no matter in what format they...
Using iAd to Display Banner Ad in Your App
So, you are about to start developing the next super app, you have everything planned and designed, but there’s still one last thing you haven’t made your mind up about; how to make some earnings out of it! Well,...
Integrating Facebook Login in iOS App – The Manual Way
In my previous tutorial, I presented an easy and fast way to implement the login with Facebook feature. Based on the FBLoginView class, I demonstrated how logging in and out from Facebook can be done in really a few minutes with...
How to Integrate Facebook Login in iOS App
Integrating Facebook features into an app is nowadays a quite common task, and one of the most important steps in the integration process is the login functionality implementation. Logging in with Facebook not only allows you to...
Introduction to UIActionSheet and UIPopoverController
All mobile applications, no matter what they are about, they have one common and obvious characteristic: They offer interaction, which means that they are not static, but require input or actions needed to be taken by users from...
Understanding Git Source Control in Xcode
During an application development process, a quite significant part is the way developers manage to keep track of the changes been made over time. It really consists of a necessary need to be able to store and handle copies of...
Background Transfer Service in iOS 7 SDK: How To Download File in Background
In a previous tutorial I presented a specific new multitasking feature in iOS 7, the Background Fetch, showing how easy it is to make an app to schedule downloads in the background. In this tutorial, I am going to work with...
Adding Animated Effects to iOS App Using UIKit Dynamics
In the recent tutorials, it has been underlined that iOS 7 has brought along great new features. Many new frameworks, libraries and APIs have been exposed to developers, letting them create modern and engaging applications and...