ios development tips #2

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Jan 302012
 

Here comes the second part of ios development tips which follows first part, I’m starting over the number now so to ease my life.

1. How to navigate to a view in another view
– original post is here:
* dealing with views in a storyboard based application
* some other helpful discussions are here: manually switch view controllers in storyboard, and another similar topic
– idea
* actually the basic idea is pretty simple and straightforward – you create a new view (the one you want to display), and push it to the top of the navigationcontroller (which actually is a stack), that’s it …
* tricky part #1: this cannot be done in a viewDidLoad event as view was not fully loaded at that time so you can nothing, the place I found that is workable is viewDidAppear event
* tricky part #2: ViewController’s initWithNibName does not work … I haven’t figure out the exact reason yet but you have to use instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier comes from storyboard
* tricky part #3: nibname … gave me QUITE A LOT headache, it should be “UIViewController-“, you can get the object ID from Interface Builder, in the identity inspector tab

Progress of my mobile app development

 Triviality  1 Response »
Jan 272012
 

Here are two (and actually, ALL) of my app’s screen shots … for iOS only.

I’m kind of slow now, need to speed up so not to eat my words.

When can I use mobile Apps?

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Jan 242012
 

Just found that I had no time to use those fancy mobile apps, either popular SNS Apps like twitter, facebook, or those “utilities” like yelp or tango. The app I used the most is Google Navigation which serves as my GPS device, and GMail/Mail Apps as I’m still a mail guy. Some other Apps consumed a little time, such as Price Check from Amazon, GPS Tracker, and Youni SMS.

The problem is that I don’t have much so-called fragmented time – I wake up in the morning, drive to office, sit in front of my laptop for almost the whole day, then drive home, then sit in front of my laptop for another couple of hours, then go to bed. I cannot twittering or update my facebook status while I was driving, and in the other time I don’t want to use mobile phone cos even the Pad is far more easier to use.

I’m not sure how many people are in my situation – does it mean all mobile Apps are for those who take public transportation, or those who work/study for not a full day?

Free online storage

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Jan 242012
 

This may not be a complete list, but so far I’m playing with all of them:

URL Space
http://www.adrive.com/ 30G
http://www.4shared.com/ 10G
http://www.cx.com/ 10G
http://www.mimedia.com/ 7G
http://www.opendrive.com/ 5G
http://pogoplug.com/ 5G
http://www.idrive.com/ 5G
http://one.ubuntu.com/ 5G
http://www.box.net/ 5G
https://devices.live.com/ 5G
https://www.free-hidrive.com/ 5G
http://www.memopal.com/ 3G

Spent too much time lingering around

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Jan 222012
 

It’s Lunar New Year in China so not much to do recently, so I could have spent some time on digging into development stuffs to see what to play in the coming months.

I upgraded my Windows VM from XP to 7 so that I can install full set of Visual Studio Express tools thus I can develop Windows Phone 7 applications, at the same time, I moved back to Eclipse from NetBeans for Android. Also, I did some research (little to none, though), found MonoDevelop seems like a pretty promising tool though plugins for mobile platforms are not free.

I don’t have enough time to do serious development … Client side software development is still a headache to me. I have to recall how I made the music player last time – it took me more than a year to did everything but at least I had a runnable version within a month, which is not that bad.

My current plan is build up a Amazon AWS console for all three major platforms (did I mention this before?), wish I can get things done in a month or two.

I just spend too much time on the way to the office, need to think about a solution. ๐Ÿ™

Google App is a mess

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Jan 132012
 

It used to be one of the most reliable and cute (or cool?) service on the Web, but seems not any more.

I tried to move two of my sites to Google App, but had to give up because all sorts of troubles it gave to me. Yesterday I was able to move one site to it, but at the last step (to activate my E-Mail account, I guess), it kept telling my my Google account was webmaster@gmail.com and I cannot change it. I tried to move to webmaster@mydomain.com but failed due to it had been registered, and if I want to hook up with this existing account it told me that I need to use webmaster@gmail.com. I was totally lost of what I should do, so I simply removed my domain from it.

It seems Google needs sometime to finish the work of removing my site as I no longer can register it, so I tried another domain I own, which is currently running on some other service providers (free, as well). Now Google is doing much better … I mentioned much better because it simply give me “Server error” (I guess it is HTTP 5xx but I’m not sure), so I don’t have to go through all the registration process and stuck in some middle way, hehe.

So, good-bye to Google App, for now, I will come back and check things out later on, maybe weeks, maybe months.

BTW, it could be Google is not willing to provide free service any more, so Google’s technical team should not be blamed, isn’t it?

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