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Controlling System Output Volume With The MPVolumeView Class (Part 2)
Inherits from: UIView : UIResponder : NSObject Framework: /System/Library/Frameworks/MediaPlayer.framework Availability: Available in iOS 2.0 and above Declared in: MPVolumeView.h If you happened to check out Part 1 of the MPVolumeView class tutorial then you will know that we ran through a simple example of instantiating an MPVolumeView object through the use of code and by using the Interface Builder within Xcode. If you missed Part 1 then make sure to give it a glance as Part 2 builds on that initial work. Controlling ...
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Rich Text Editing : Sample Project
As promised I have gone through all the tutorials including the bonus code and some of the requests in the comments to put together a Xcode Project of the Rich Text Editing series. If you haven’t already, check out the iOS5 Rich Text Editing Series. The features of the project include: - Bold, Italics and Underlining - Highlighting (via UIMenuController) - Font Size adjustment - Font Color adjustment - Font adjustment - Undo and Redo - Image insertion - Draggable ...
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Rich Text Editing : Draggable Images (Part 7)
Previous in the series: - Rich Text Editor : Inserting Images (Part 6) Here it is, the final tutorial in the series where we’ll attempt the most advanced feature yet! In this tutorial we’ll be subclassing UIGestureRecognizer, dealing with and using blocks but most importantly expanding our knowledge of javascript. Javascript : The next step First things first we need to add some javascript to our ‘index.html’ file. Just after the opening html tag add the following code: <script language="text/javascript"> ...
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How To Customize The Tab Bar Using iOS 5 Appearance API
Great App design is now a must-have when developing apps for the App Store. Especially, now that you have to contend with so many other pas for attention. If your apps are not selling as well as they should spice it up with a good design and you should see an uplift. In this post, I am going to show you how to design the tab bar you see in the screenshot below. The tab bar has a leather background ...
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Rich Text Editing : Inserting Images (Part 6)
Check out the previous in the series: - Rich Text Editing : Undo and Redo (Part 5) Once you’ve done that, then let’s begin. In this our sixth and penultimate tutorial I will show you how to present a UIImagePickerController in which a user can select an image of their choice and then add the users selected image into the document. Let’s get right to it, in our ‘checkSelection’ method add the following code: UIBarButtonItem *insertPhoto = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Photo+" ...
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Rich Text Editing : Undo and Redo (Part 5)
Check out the previous in the series: - Rich Text Editing : Fonts (Part 4) If you have done that, then lets begin. In this our fifth tutorial we’ll be taking a look at adding undo and redo to our rich text editor. This a rather trivial matter and so should be a quick thing to do. Okay, let’s get stuck in. As we’ve done in almost all our tutorials we need to add some bar button items into the ...
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How to make a magazine app in iOS – Part II
Previous in the series: How to make a magazine app in iOS – Part I The iOS5 revolution A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since our first part of this tutorial. We’re sorry for the delay, but at the time of writing we were aware of the new featured introduced with iOS5 but we were still under NDA and not authorized to disclose anything about the SDK. Finally we’re now able to provide our example magazine app ...
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Rich Text Editing : Fonts (Part 4)
Previous in the series: - Rich Text Editing : Highlighting and UIMenuController (Part 3) If you have read the third part in this series, then lets begin. In this tutorial we’ll be looking at customising anything and everything related to the font. We’ll begin by adding an option for adjusting the font size and then move on to changing both the font its self and the font color. Before we add our bar button items and everything else we need ...
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Rich Text Editing : Highlighting and UIMenuController (Part 3)
Previous in the series: - Rich Text Editing : Validation (Part 2) If you have read the second part in this series, then lets begin. In this our third tutorial we’ll look at using execCommand to set the background color of selected text to give it the appearance of a highlight as can be seen in iBook’s. We’ll also look at using UIMenuController to display the highlight button in the menu which appears after selecting text. Let’s get straight into ...
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