Developement

Retrieving files for document directory

March 21st, 2012 posted in Apps Developement Objective C

Ever had the need to retrieve data stored in the document directory of you iOS application. Well surprisingly Xcode can help you.
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Deprecating uniqueIdentifier is a good thing.

March 9th, 2012 posted in Apps Developement Objective C

Since iOS 5 was first in beta many developers started complaining about the fact that the [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier] got deprecated.
Some developer even stated that is was the worst idea Apple ever had.

Well I don’t agree with them, this is about the smartest thing they did. If only for the privacy of the user.
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My Interview got published

February 28th, 2012 posted in Appsterdam Developement Objective C

My Interview in iPhone magazine
Just before the end of the year iPhone Magazine interviewed me for there magazine.
Its about my work as an iOS developer at Oberon, they add at a “Meet the developer” in this issues.
They will be adding this section to all there upcoming issue, hopefully this wil give user some idea of what it takes to develop an app.

The magazine is in Dutch and you can buy it online.

Running iOS 5 build apps on the orignal iPhone, iPod touch and iPhone 3G

December 27th, 2011 posted in Developement Objective C

Have apple introduced the iPhone 3GS they made an major switch in processor architecture, the want from armv6 to armv7.
Now that we have all update to Xcode 4 with iOS 5, Apple seems to be of the opinion that you can drop support of the armv6 architecture.

Well this isn’t always the case, especial for those device that can run iOS 4.*.
Luckily you solve this very easily, go to the the project build setting.

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