A blog about things that interest me.
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An Event in San Francisco
Yesterday Apple made the event official – at least according to the flurry of post about people receiving invites to an event: here, here, and here. If the rumors are to believed, this should be the launch of iOS7, iPhone5s, and iPhone5c, with a purchase date almost immediately thereafter. (According to Sept. 20th. In the…
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Core Data and iOS (Part 2)
In the last post, I described how to create the template Core Data App, and showed you a few screenshots. In this one I’ll walk thru the files that are created: First lest’s look at the structure of the project. We choose a universal app, so we have two storyboards, one for the iPad and…
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Core Data and iOS
I’ve been working on a new app lately, and I’ve taken this time to try and teach myself CoreData. CoreData is the mechanism by which Apple has taken traditional SQL database and mapped it to the programming model used in iOS apps. Over the next few blog entries I will try and describe my learning…
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Is Your App Ready
If the rumor mill is to be believed, Apple will announce their new iPhone on Sept. 10th. That is not too far away, and as such means developers are working hard to have launch titles available. Realistically, I doubt that Apple will make the iPhone 5s/c or whatever it will be called, ready on the…
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Android – Root or wait?
For my Android needs, I currently have an Galaxy Tab 2 (10 inch). It is running Android 4.2.1 and I have been wanting to install the latest version of Android, but Samsung has yet to roll the update out for my device. I have read that they are rolling it out around the world, but…