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Issue 4

26th August 2011

Written by Dave Verwer

Comment

Sad news this week with the resignation of Steve. However I am not going to waffle on here as I am sure I won’t say anything that hasn’t already been said so on we go to the links!

Dave Verwer

News

UDIDs To Become App-Specific After iOS 5

A potentially serious change at some point in the future of iOS for anyone using UDID’s to uniquely identify users of their app. I know I am going to be affected by this when it goes in.

Conference: iOS Dev UK

A few days by the sea with a load of other Mac and iOS devs? Sign me up! Actually I already signed up as I am speaking there (but don’t let that put you off booking!).

Tools

StackMob

I think there is a real opportunity for someone to create a reliable, flexible hosted REST back end for iOS apps and it looks like several companies are trying to do just that. I linked to Parse a couple of weeks ago and this week I came across StackMob who also look really interesting.

Code

Friday Q&A: Namespaced Constants and Functions

Mike Ash with a great recap of some techniques you will probably be familiar with for defining constants in C/Obj-C along with a technique you might not be so familiar with for cutting down on the ugly by using structs to namespace constants.

AFNetworking

A new open source networking library by Gowalla. I was hooked as soon as I read “If you’re tired of massive libraries that try to do too much…” and sure enough this looks really good so far.

UIDevice+UniqueIdentifier

Of course, there are other ways to uniquely identify an iOS device rather than using the UDID.

Using CGAffineTransform for Circular Layout and Scrolling

Ryan Dillon on creating a circular scrolling control. If you haven’t done much with drawing using Core Animation layers then this is a great introductory article to dig into.

Core Animation Demos

More Core Animation goodness! Bob McCune with a repo full of a great set of CA demos from a Minnesota CocoaHeads meeting earlier this year.

Business and Marketing

A Familiar Place

For everyone who has ever tried to ship a quality piece of software. Inspiring.

How To: Media Kits

A subject close to my heart which I have spoken about several times, Retro Dreamer give an excellent overview of how to build a great media kit to have available when you market your apps.