Matt Facer » iphone

Cookit Lite – free iphone app

mattfacer — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:06:20 +0000

I’ve made a free version of cookit, the iPhone meal planing app. It’s now available on the app store here:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cookit-lite-cooking-meal-planner/id408205605?mt=8

IBOutlet not showing in Interface builder (iphone sdk)

mattfacer — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:06 +0000

Today I came across a gem of a tip for Interface Builder. I was creating a simple view controller and had one IBOutlet. When I loaded the XIB file, there were no outlets to link up. The solution was to (in Interface Builder), click “File” and click “Read Class Files” – then select the .h file you are working on.

Awesome. Worked a treat.

Thanks to the original post here: http://forums.oreilly.com/content/Head-First-iPhone-Development/17810/Interface-Builder-Tip/

Create an IPA bundle for your iPhone / iPad app

mattfacer — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:43:34 +0000

I’ve been having a nightmare sending out ad-hoc development apps to clients to test. It seems to work nicely on the mac as you can drop the .app file straight to iTunes, but Windows is a pain. I came across a nice website which in three lines will create a bundle yourapp.ipa file.

Your client can then (having already loaded the provisioning profile) simply double click the IPA file which is then loaded in iTunes.

Navigate to your build folder and run the code from terminal:

mkdir Payload
cp -rp MyApplication.app Payload/
zip -r MyApplication.ipa iTunesArtwork Payload

Bingo, you will have an IPA file. Thanks to the original post over at http://johnehartzog.com/2009/04/iphone-app-ad-hoc-gotchas/