Issue 12

21^st October 2011

Written by Dave Verwer

Comment

Bumper week this week, not surprising really the week after the lifting of the iOS 5 NDA.

Dave Verwer

News

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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”.

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.

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.

Tools

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.

Talking of quick look, this plugin for viewing the full details of a mobileprovision file is all sorts of awesome.

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.

Code

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.

… and don’t forget part 2!

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.

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.

Here is some more GLKit goodness, you lucky lucky people.

Design

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.

Business and Marketing

Casey Fleser with an interesting take on choosing what kind of app to develop. Why not use science!