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Issue 28

10th February 2012

Written by Dave Verwer

News

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers

I was just talking about the potential security hole of allowing silent access to the iOS address book earlier this week and how surprised I am that iOS made it to version 5 without forcing a permission prompt like location services does, I know I value my contact data at least as much as my location.


Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store

Good news for the App Store, glad to see it happen.

Tools

Sketchshare

Everyone knows that developers can’t think or transfer ideas without drawing them inside a box. This app by Stewart Hamilton-Arrandale and Chris Wilson probably wasn’t designed to share code diagrams or quick ideas but that is certainly what I am planning to use it for.


Experimenting with iBooks Author

Bill Dudney has been experimenting with iBooks Author and released a book containing some invaluable information on working with the ImageIO framework. If you missed him talking about this on the iDeveloper TV podcast recently then this mini book is worth a download.


Creating iOS Static Frameworks

Jeff Verkoeyen with a great round up of all of the techniques for creating static reusable frameworks on iOS. We really do need a better way of creating and reusing static libraries than any of the options mentioned here though.

Code

CGPath Hit Testing

Ole Begemann with a great article on the new CGPathCreateCopyByStrokingPath function which was introduced in iOS 5. Interesting tip for replicating this functionality on iOS 4 at the end of the article too.


UIImage Sprite Additions

Rafal Sroka has just the category for those rare occasions that a sprite sheet implementation would be useful for UIImage.


Introducing SocketRocket

Neat little library from Square for communicating with WebSockets.

Design

Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App

Nice round up of iPad design tips from Smashing Magazine.

Business and Marketing

The iOS-ification Of Apple’s Ecosystem

Seems crystal clear to me.