Thursday, October 20, 2011

iPhone | code crash : Mutated Collection during fast enumeration

If you are going to use , fast enumeration in your objective C code?
for (id {object} in {collection}) {...}" )

You shall not be able to modify the collection (add or remove) during enumeration.
Because, thread will have a lock on the resources being used.

for that either go with the :

1) for(NSUInteger i=0 ; i< [ {collection} length];i++){…}
2) Put the add/remove logic in another thread

Hope this helps!

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Shipment Tracker - Package tracking app for US

Shipment Tracker is live on app store :)
Developed this application for Appcandy productions.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shipment-tracker/id471306380?mt=8

Cheers!

iPhone | UIImage

I was reading a blog article "How to use optimized Image in iPhone Development?",

That article suggests, it is best to use “imageWithContentsOfFile” over [UImage imageNamed:@"YOUR_IMAGE_NAME"]; because image name will not flush image out of memory even if it is set to nil.

Correct! it will not flush, But its good to keep that image in cache, Most of the time, application user moves to-and-fro in app ,
So its not a good idea to get it always from main bundle and get it converted everytime!

Sharing the good part of UIImage:

As per apple developer reference guide for UIImage imageNamed method:

+ (UIImage *)imageNamed:(NSString *)name

name
The name of the file. If this is the first time the image is being loaded, the method looks for an image with the specified name in the application’s main bundle.
If a matching image object is not already in the cache, this method loads the image data from the specified file, caches it, and then returns the resulting object.

Return Value
The image object for the specified file, or nil if the method could not find the specified image.

On a device running iOS 4 or later, the behavior is identical if the device’s screen has a scale of 1.0. If the screen has a scale of 2.0, this method first searches for an image file with the same filename with an @2x suffix appended to it. For example, if the file’s name is button, it first searches for button@2x. If it finds a 2x, it loads that image and sets the scale property of the returned UIImage object to 2.0. Otherwise, it loads the unmodified filename and sets the scale property to 1.0.
Special Considerations
On iOS 4 and later, if the file is in PNG format, it is not necessary to specify the .PNG filename extension. Prior to iOS 4, you must specify the filename extension.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

iPhone | Customize the UITableView header and footer view

To Customize the table header and footer view , Just go fo it....


CGRect newFrame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, self.tableView.bounds.size.width, self.myHeaderView.frame.size.height);
self.myHeaderView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.myHeaderView.frame = newFrame;
self.tableView.tableHeaderView = self.myHeaderView; // note this will override UITableView's 'sectionHeaderHeight' property

// set up the table's footer view based on our UIView 'myFooterView' outlet
newFrame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, self.tableView.bounds.size.width, self.myFooterView.frame.size.height);
self.myFooterView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.myFooterView.frame = newFrame;
self.tableView.tableFooterView = self.myFooterView; // note this will override UITableView's 'sectionFooterHeight' property