Hey iCoders,
Short post today on a little tool I made for myself that is turning out to be very useful. This is a simple UIColor category which adds a class level initializer that accepts the color strings output from the Digital Color Meter application in OS X. I regularly make iOS apps which refer to design PDF documents. Many times designers don’t provide exact details to what colors are in the design. To get them I use the Digial Color …

Today I’m going to show you how to make a static library for iOS. We will make a simple library and use it in a separate project.
What’s a static library
Here is what wiki has to say:
In computer science, a static library or statically-linked library is a set of routines, external functions and variables which are resolved in a caller at compile-time and copied into a target application by a compiler, linker, or binder, producing an object file and …

Hello, I’m Andy Yanok (Twitter) and I recently finished working on Friended for Facebook.  Many applications use Facebook for posting content from their respective applications, there could be infinite items that a developer would like to post to users feeds whilst using their applications but today we will be focusing on posting a link to a users feed.
In order to get started using the Facebook SDK & API’s you will need to download the latest copy of the …

This tutorial will show you how to automatically fill in CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString, when using Git.
This has been tested in Xcode 3.2.5 (Updates for Xcode 4 at the bottom)
Git Setup
First off you need a project that is checked into git, and is also tagged with an initial version number.
If you already have git setup for your project, skip down to XCode Setup
To locally setup up git, without a remote repository, after installing git, issue the following commands
cd into your project …

Devotees will remember that last year the team over here at iCodeBlog released a little iPad app called TweetMapper that showed a live stream of tweets coming down from 10 major cities. Well since then Twitter deprecated its support for XML and increased its support for better searching. As a result about a month ago we dusted the project off and went at completely rebuilding it. We added Core Data in, support for the now current streaming JSON output from …

Guest Bloggers
Hey iCoders! We are looking for some guest bloggers to write iOS tutorials, code snippets, tips, tricks, you name it for iCodeBlog.
How to apply:
1. Shoot an email to [email protected] with a link to your current blog (or iOS articles you have written)
2. We will check your stuff out and most likely give you contributor status to iCodeBlog
3. ???
4. Profit (OK, no profit (yet), but you get exposure(link your blog) AND the good feeling that you are contributing to the …

I recently spent some  time with ELCImagePickerController.  For those of you who’ve worked with UIImagePickerController, you might have noticed one of its major drawbacks: you can only select one photo at a time.  ELCImagePickerController solves this issue by cloning the UI of UIImagePickerController, but with the added bonus of allowing you to select multiple assets.  Collin Ruffenach (@cruffenach), who authored the the first version of the picker, has done an awesome job of making ELCImagePickerController look, feel, and …

Using Categories to enhance models, and get rid of those pesky compiler warnings
Overview
When using Core Data, our model classes are always generated. What happens if we wanted to add a couple utility functions to one of these generated classes? Yep, they would be discarded the next time we auto-generated our model classes. As we discussed in our previous categories post (icodeblog.com), adding a category on one of these generated classes would enable us to add those utility …

If you’re going to write about mobile development, and if you’re going to get excited about all the great things happening in this space, you have to be ready to change.
We are and we did.
This is the new look for iCodeBlog. We hope you like it. It is now part of a network of sites. A pretty cool network of sites under the aegis of Velum Media. We have RubyGlob, SmallCloudBuilder, SmallNetBuilder, Mxdwn, and TG Daily. Something for everyone.
But, everything …

Hello iCoders, today I am going to be open sourcing a UITableViewCell we have created over at ELC that we have found to be very useful. When developing apps we have found that many times a form of some type is required. This is common in Registration forms, contact forms, feedback forms, etc. The problem was writing the same basic code over and over to have an elegant fast form experience for the user. To quicken the development time of these elements we created the ELCTextFieldCell class which facilitates the creation and flow of a larger form. In this post I will be walking you through the usage of the class.