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19Jun 2015
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Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch

Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch
Cocoa Samurai’s article published in 2009, by Colin Wheeler, talk about Blocks, Grand Central Dispatch, GCD Design Patterns and Cocoa API’s using GCD and Blocks. In 2009, the methods expose in this article are based on OS X 10.6, however, with the increased interaction of the Mac and iPhone with web services, data cloud, etc.., these...
16Jun 2015
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Long life for our apps

Long life for our apps
Our clients usually come with great ideas and they want to see them in an app. They believe that the project is ended when the app is published in the App Store. However, Apple release a new operative system every year around october. Every iOS version (Apple's operative system) comes with a lot of changes and the...
11Jun 2015
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Tips to develop a good app

Tips to develop a good app
Today We would like to talk about mobile apps, but we don’t want to talk about the common tips that most of the blogs usually do, instead of it We would like to describe some tips that usually find between the moment since the clients knock our door until our clients publish their lovely app. Tip...
05Jun 2015
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Possible new version of Beats Music at WWDC 2015

Possible new version of Beats Music at WWDC 2015
Apple is expected to announce the rebranded and revamped version of Beats Music at WWDC 2015, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference that will take place next week. Beats Music and Beats Electronics was acquired last year and Apple is negotiating over streaming terms with music labels, 72 hours before WWDC 2015. You can read the full article...
04Jul 2014
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Code: iOS Freehand Drawing Part 1

There is some cases where we need to make a freehand drawing in our apps, for example to make a signature. This will be the first part of three post that will allow you to draw in a freehand way. Lets go! 1) Set up your project. If you don't know how to start maybe it's not your...
04Jan 2014
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Code: Custom UIView from xib

If you are building a complex view, you can break it down in parts to make more readable the code and split the functionality on different UIView classes. Then you can instantiate your subviews from your main UIViewController.

23Dec 2013
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Code: Custom pins in your map

Sometimes you need to add a custom pin to your map. You can use this piece of code to achieve that. Take a special look to the property "centerOffset" that allows to adjust your image from the center of your MKAnnotationView (usually you will set it as (0 , minus half...
20Dec 2013
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Theory: Delegate patterns in Cocoa

The delegate pattern is a common and useful pattern in cocoa's environment like  properties and will be easy to implement if you have clear what you want to do. The first thing we need to know will be the concept of 'protocol', this is basically a declaration which methods are between two classes and...
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