Tag Archives: iphone

New Birdcage Project: Hyperlocal Music, Petty Vandalism, 2D Barcodes, and Bridging My Two Worlds

By Bryan Woods | July 17, 2009

I’ve been playing around with QR Codes a lot lately, and the more I use them, the more I’m beginning to see their value as a way of bridging the “real” (physical/”analog”) world with the digital world.
And so it dawned on me that I could use them as the medium to get people exploring the [...]

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Making UITableViews Suck Way Less

By Bryan Woods | December 3, 2008

Usually I wouldn’t get involved in arguments about which configurations framework designers choose to make default, but in the case of the iPhone’s UITableView, it’s pretty apparent the default options are going to lead you in circles of UI Case Study research and aesthetic ponderings before you realize a flip of a switch will solve [...]

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We need an open source iPhone community like, now.

By Bryan Woods | November 17, 2008

Recently I’ve downloaded a few iPhone applications that have used the UITableView in ways I could have never even imagined. Really classy, brilliant interfaces that make using the software a real delight.  Check out Tweetsville, Facebook, and Twinkle to see what I’m getting at.
Tweetsville in particular is outstanding. The amount of work Ed Voas put [...]

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Your mobile device has encountered an unexpected error (0xE800003A) during the install phase: Verifying application

By Bryan Woods | November 10, 2008

Are you about ready to jump from the top of an extremely tall building after encountering this error?
Well, you’re not alone. I struggled with this monster for about two weeks before getting my test application to run on my device, and the way I solved the problem was different than what I had read elsewhere [...]

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iPhone Hotness of the Day: Baked-in Drag and Drop of UITableView Cell Items

By Bryan Woods | November 10, 2008

So you want to add drag-and-drop functionality to the items in a UITableView Cell, eh?
Head over to your app’s equivalent of RootViewController.m and check out all the cool stuff commented-out and at your fingertips.
Somewhere in that file you should see

RootViewController.m
/*
// Override to support rearranging the list
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView moveRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)fromIndexPath toIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)toIndexPath {
}
*/

Go ahead and [...]

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Another Thought on Free

By Bryan Woods | November 10, 2008

There’s a growing trend among the early-to-relatively-early adopters in my community: we’re actually paying to use web and mobile apps.
Personally, I pay a monthly fee to use Github for source control and distribution on my code projects, and pay a monthly fee to Bluehost to keep some of my Wordpress-powered blogs running.
While paying for web [...]

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iPhone Developers: You’re doing it wrong.

By Bryan Woods | November 8, 2008

Just like that, the mobile web has become a regular part of our daily lives.
And even still it’s nearly impossible to fathom just how important Apple’s App Store and Google’s App Marketplace truly are to the tech startup ecosystem and mobile web economy as a whole.
But one thing’s for certain.  iPhone Developers are doing it [...]

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