News
Cleaning...
Marco on the new iOS 5 behaviour restricting the kinds of files which can be stored into the Documents folder and the automatic cleaning of cache folders in low disk space situations. As he says at the start of the post, "This is going to be a problem".
marco.org
Backgrounding apps when locking on iOS 5
Luke Redpath notices (and I can confirm) that iOS apps now background when the device is locked. Surprising and definitely one to be aware of.
twitter.com
Aral Balkan | The Future is Native
Aral is a very entertaining speaker and this talk from the recent Fronteers conference in Amsterdam takes the whole Web vs Native conversation a little further.
vimeo.com
Tools
Viewing iPhone-Optimized PNGs
Ever wanted to un-crush a crushed PNG? Well until Apple add the ability to view them to quick look (please!), this might come in useful.
apple.com
QuickLook plugin for Mobile Provision files
Talking of quick look, this plugin for viewing the full details of a mobileprovision file is all sorts of awesome.
macmation.com
Enabling Accessibility for iOS Applications
Stewart Gleadow with the first in a series of posts in which he is going to look at using the accessibility features of iOS for automated UI testing.
github.com
Code
Beginning Storyboards in iOS 5 Part 1
I think storyboards are probably the most significant change to iOS development since the SDK was released. Matthijs Hollemans has a long but comprehensive tutorial taking a look at the whole process of storyboarding in iOS 5.
raywenderlich.com
Using Regular Expressions Part 2 - the Cocoa Connection
Carl Brown with a small, focused category to make NSRegularExpression a little easier to use. Part 1 of this article is also worth checking out if you are new to regular expressions or need a recap.
escortmissions.com
GLKit Examples
Jeff LaMarche with some small, simple samples of using GLKit on iOS 5. Is GLKit OpenGL ES for the rest of us? It certainly seems to be heading that way.
blogspot.com
Beginning OpenGL ES 2.0 with GLKit Part 1
Here is some more GLKit goodness, you lucky lucky people.
raywenderlich.com
Design
iOS 5 GUI PSD (iPhone 4S)
An update to the amazing iOS UI PSD that Teehan + Lax generously provide to us all. I especially love their attention to detail in noticing some of the more minuscule changes to the UI components in iOS 5. I also couldn't help noticing how eerily familiar this looked while grabbing this link. Check the screenshot, then the date.
teehanlax.com
Business and Marketing
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Casey Fleser with an interesting take on choosing what kind of app to develop. Why not use science!
somegeekintn.com
Bumper week this week, not surprising really the week after the lifting of the iOS 5 NDA.
Dave Verwer