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How does the Reeder iPhone app swipe up and down between articles?
Full Source code: https://github.com/boctor/idev-recipes/tree/master/VerticalSwipeArticles Problem: The Reeder iPhone App lets you pull up to see the title of the next article. If you pull up far...
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How does the Twitter iPhone App implement a custom tab bar?
Full Source code: https://github.com/boctor/idev-recipes/tree/master/CustomTabBar Problem: The Twitter iPhone App has a custom tab bar that is shorter than the standard tab bar, doesn’t have titles for...
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How do iPhone apps Instagram/Reeder/DailyBooth implement custom...
Full Source code: https://github.com/boctor/idev-recipes/tree/master/CustomBackButton Problem: Apps like Instagram, Reeder and DailyBooth have a UINavigationBar with custom background and sometimes...
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Exploring iPhone view hierarchies
Sometimes it’s useful to quickly see all the subviews of a UIView. Perhaps you’re debugging a problem in one of your views or trying to understand the inner workings of one of the built in views. You...
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How does the Instagram iPhone app implement a custom tab bar notification?
Full Source code: https://github.com/boctor/idev-recipes/tree/master/CustomTabBarNotification Problem: When the Instagram app wants to let you know that you have new comments, likes or followers, it...
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Reimagining the WordPress iPhone app
Last week WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by John Battelle at SXSW where he was startlingly candid about the shortcomings of WordPress’s iPhone app “Twitter inspired us to...
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How does the Twitter iPhone app implement side swiping on a table?
Full Source code: https://github.com/boctor/idev-recipes/tree/master/SideSwipeTableView Problem: The Twitter iPhone app pioneered the ability to swipe on a tweet and have a menu appear, letting you do...
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Debugging Magic: Auto Simulate iOS Memory Warnings
Full Source code: https://gist.github.com/956403 Problem: You spend a lot of time and effort building your app, writing countless view controllers. You think it’s near perfect. Then one of your beta...
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Zaarly
This isn’t a recipe so I’ll keep it short: I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining Zaarly to head up their mobile development. You can read more on my personal blog: Zaarly « Peter Boctor.
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Smarter iOS Metrics
This is how we implemented metrics in recent apps I’ve worked on: Right before the app shipped we’d go thru the app and anywhere something interesting happened, we’d add a metric by naming it and...
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