Adoption Curve

Adding photos to the iPhone Simulator

Tim — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:45:41 +0000

If you’re testing photo functionality in the iPhone Simulator that involves picking images from the Photo Library, you’re going to come up against the apparently existential problem of how to get photos into the Library when the Simulator doesn’t have a camera.

The solution is simpler than I’d thought it would be. Stop your app, and fire up Safari in the Simulator. Then find the image you want to use from the Mac filesystem, and drag it over onto the Simulator and drop it into Safari.

Safari will open it as a “file://foo.jpg”-style URL. Then click and hold on the image until an action sheet appears (that’s a “long press” in finger terms). Click the Save Image button, and the image will be saved into the Simulator’s Photo Library. The next time you run an app that uses the Library, the image you’ve just saved will be in there as if it had been taken with the camera.

The Simulator’s Photo Library won’t persist beyond a simulator reset, but it’s quick enough to add a few images back in again.

Infovore » Finishing the Intervalometer: the value of finishing, and making what’s in your head

Tim — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:30:35 +0000

My App Store release checklist | iOS/Web Developer’s Life in Beta

Tim — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:30:40 +0000

How to automate your iPhone app builds with Hudson | iOS/Web Developer’s Life in Beta

Tim — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:30:12 +0000

Easy Xcode Static Library Subprojects and Submodules – James Montgomerie’s World Wide Web Log

Tim — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:29:44 +0000

"By the end of this blog post, you’ll know how to create an Xcode project that compiles a static library, exposing public headers to other projects in a way that makes them easy to #import, and how to use that project as a subproject in other projects." You’ll also be able to include this project in superprojects as a submodule using Git

How to make Xcode’s UI work for you (maybe)

Tim — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:27:47 +0000

How to customise Xcode behaviour and tab setups

Privacy Patterns

Tim — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:49:47 +0000

"Privacy patterns are design solutions to common privacy problems — a way to translate "privacy-by-design" into practical advice for software engineering. We believe design patterns can help document common practices and standardize terminology and while we're starting with a set of patterns for location-based services, we hope to build a living, community space where all can contribute their own patterns."

The Elements of Programmatic Style by Jason Brennan

Tim — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:36:30 +0000

"The purpose of this guide is to ensure existing and future iOS and Mac products conform to a consistent and well-designed convention."

Cocoa Literature

Tim — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:36:03 +0000

"Articles about programming in Cocoa are many and in many places. The majority of them are of very high quality. To help out, I made this collected index, searchable by title or by article content."

50 tips for designing brilliant iOS apps | Computer Arts magazine

Tim — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:18:18 +0000

"Interface design for iOS is a very different beast from the web. Here, we bring you 50 invaluable ways to get it right every time"