Questions tagged [ipod-touch]
The iPod Touch (stylized and marketed as iPod touch) is a multi-purpose pocket computer designed and marketed by Apple Inc.
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Determine device (iPhone, iPod Touch) with iOS
Is there a way to determine the device running an application. I want to distinguish between iPhone and iPod Touch, if possible.
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Xcode 4 says "finished running <my app>" on the targeted device -- Nothing happens
The app neither installs nor runs on my device. All provisioning profiles are up to date. I've already tried deleting and re-installing them.
The status bar shows that Xcode is building my project, ...
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What are the sizes used for the iOS application splash screen?
I am developing an application using the iOS SDK. I need to know what Default splash screen sizes I need.
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jQuery Drag and Drop on touch devices (iPad, Android)
We have a card game website that makes extensive use of jQuery Draggable & Droppable and which has worked nearly flawlessly (when using a mouse) for almost a year.
We would REALLY like to have ...
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Could not receive a message from the device (iPhone)
I built and run an iPhone application on iPod Touch 2.2.1 device, got some problems and made a fix attempt. Now trying to re-build & run the application gives two (2) error popup notes:
Could ...
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Official way to create iOS icons? [closed]
I find it hard to believe that every developer creates their icons manually in various different ways but if that is the case, that is fine. I was wonder what the standard was for creating iOS icons (...
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Can js/jQuery determine the orientation of the iPhone?
Out of curiosity I've been playing with jQuery to determine the browser's screen size, and it occurred to me that screen size could be used to determine whether or not a visitor was using an iPhone/...
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xcode timed out waiting for app to launch
Application get fail to launch in device having iOS 6.0 from xcode 4.5. Xcode says Application can't be launched timed out waiting for app to launch. I reset my all device settings. Cross checked if i ...
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Is there an equivalent apple-touch-startup-image for the IPAD?
For web apps you can set the startup screen with apple-touch-startup-image
What about for iPads?
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What are all the special iPhone / iPod Touch HTML tags?
After peeking at the SO source, I noticed this tag:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png" />
Which after a quick Google revealed an Apple "favicon" type thing for display ...
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Programmatically turn on bluetooth in the iphone sdk?
I have seen a lot of questions about this but no one actually gives a real answer (frameworks to import, actual code etc). They only say with a private api and that will get your app rejected from the ...
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iPod Touch compared to iPhone as development platform for iPhone apps
Essentially I'd like to know just how compatible are the iPhone and the iPod Touch. I would like to know if I could buy an iPod Touch (and thus save some cash) and develop iPhone apps on it or if I ...
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Develop an iOS App for Cydia
How can I start developing simple iOS tweaks for Cydia?
What's the difference in compiling an app for the official App Store and Cydia?
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UIDatePicker - Problem Localizing
I've created a UIDatePicker in my app and I also have support for several languages. My UIDatePicker is created in Interface Builder, and I have created a seperate localization XIB so I can customize ...
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How to configure iOS app to work on specific devices?
I am developing iOS app with ZBar SDK for QR-codes scan. Here ZBar SDK creators tell us that
Only the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 are supported, as they have a camera
with auto-focus. The ZBar ...
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What's the best format for sound effects on iPhone
What is the recommended audio format for storing and playing back short (2-3 sec) audio sound effects on the iPhone or iToouch?
The iPhone audio SDK documentation indicates that the iPhone supports ...
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Changes in accelerometer / gyroscope limitations for iPhone 5 / 5th Gen iPod Touch?
Back when the iPhone 4 and 4th Generation iPod Touch came out, I was toying around with Apple's Core Motion sensor fusion algorithms to see if I could get any interesting results for very local dead ...
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iPod won't sleep when connected to debugger
I've got my iPod connected to my debugger running in XCode. The auto-lock is set to 1 minute. When the debugger is not running, the iPod goes to sleep after 1 minute of inactivity. However, when the ...
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MKMapView loading all annotation views at once (including those that are outside the current rect)
UPDATE
It looks like this problem has been quietly fixed in iOS 4.3. Up to this point, the distance that was considered "far enough" for an annotation to be recycled seemed to be hundreds of miles, ...
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Can I disable UIPickerView scroll sound?
I want to disable the annoying clicks that the UIPickerView generates upon scrolling up and down. Is there a way to do this? I want to play short sounds for each item that the picker view lands upon. ...
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"Run destination iOS Device is not valid" for iPod Touch running 3.1.3 with XCode 4
I'm trying to test my application against a friend's old iPod touch running iOS 3.1.3.
I have XCode 4 and receive this error message when trying to run the application:
The run destination iOS ...
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iPhone detecting processor model / NEON support
I'm looking for a way to differentiate at runtime between devices equipped with the new ARM processor (such as iPhone 3GS and some iPods 3G) and devices equipped with the old ARM processors.
I know I ...
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Detecting iPhone/iPod Touch Accessories
Is it possible to detect if the iPod Touch/iPhone has any headphones or other accessories connected to it?
I'm building an app that requires a microphone, and need to know if the "iSomething" has one ...
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iPod touch compared to iPhone 4 as a development platform (iOS 4.1)
I would like to revamp an old question, concerning the development of apps on the iPod touch as a cheap replacement for the iPhone:
iPod Touch compared to iPhone as development platform for iPhone ...
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Getting the last 2 directories of a file path
I have a file path of, for example /Users/Documents/New York/SoHo/abc.doc. Now I need to just retrieve /SoHo/abc.doc from this path.
I have gone through the following:
stringByDeletingPathExtension -...
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Rich Text Editor on Mobile Safari
I'm trying to build a Web page that has a rich text editor. Is it possible to use a rich text editor (such as FCKEditor) in Mobile Safari on the iPod Touch (or iPhone)?
All of the demos I tried ...
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Can I provide my own ads and make money off them in an iOS app? [closed]
I've had some trouble finding information about Apple's policies regarding in-app ads. I'm interested in developing a free iOS app with the intention of making money off of it using advertising. ...
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Programmatically determine order in which UIView items should be read by VoiceOver
I am making my iPhone app accessible. VoiceOver is pretty impressive. When a user uses VoiceOver, it automatically reads off the items on the screen and allows the user to double-tap anywhere on the ...
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What are the protocols supported in Iphone's External Accessory Framework
I'm working on an iphone/ipod app that will need to communicate with a computer (MAC for now, maybe PC if possible) though the USB dock connector cable. I'm a complete beginner with IPhone programming ...
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Coverflow in HTML5 for iPhone/iPod Touch
I have to do a web page destined for iPhone and iPod-touch that needs to incorporate the Coverflow style of apple in a page to display a list of videos.
I've heard something about gizmos that could ...
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html5 <audio>: how to use the built-in `next`, and `previous` controls on iOS 4.2 / Android 2.3
Both on Gingerbread 2.3 and iOS 4.2+ the HTML5 <audio> tag generates an interface with next, and previous buttons.
How do I hook into those controls?
It doesn't appear to be one of the HTML5 ...
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How to tell if Cocoa Touch device can make calls? [duplicate]
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iOS - Detecting whether or not device support phone calls?
I'm writing an iPhone application that provides a button to call a phone number. I'm using code like the following ...
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Can one develop for iOS 6 using XCode 5 on Mavericks (OS X 10.9)?
This question is out-dated. Mavericks is released and everything works fine with Xcode 5 and iOS 6 on an iPod 4th gen.
I'm thinking about upgrading my OS X to Mavericks, but I still want to keep ...
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How to find iPhone/iPod Device model (3G,3GS,4,4S) by code? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Determine device (iPhone, iPod Touch) with iOS
I have tried to get the current device model name like 3G,3GS,4,4S,iPodTouch (Different Generations). But, I can't get an exact ...
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How to get iPod Touch simulator in Xcode 6.1
My game app works on all iPhone's and all iPad's. I also want it to work on all iPod Touches. There is no iPod Touch simulator in Xcode 6.1. So how do I work on it?
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How much memory does iOS allow apps to use?
I am making an app that uses a lot of fairly big image files. I notice it crashes when they all get loaded on my iPhone 3G (128 mb ram), but not when I test it on a 3rd gen iPod (256 mb ram). So I ...
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GameKit in iPhone SDK 3.0
Do I need to use the Peer Picker to find peers in the new iPhone SDK 3.0?
I don't really want to use it, but I do want to use the peer-to-peer Bluetooth connection. Is there any sample code that ...
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Is there any physics engine SDK for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad?
Is there any physics engine SDK for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad?
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Can an application find out information about currently playing song on iPhone/iPod Touch? [closed]
I've searched around a bit in the small amount of iPhone/iPod Touch development information available and couldn't find anything for or against. Can an application find out information about ...
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My App shows only a black screen on iPod
My app is in productions an works correctly in all devices except the iPod touch, which only shows a black screen when start the app.
Does any body knows which could be the problem?
The iPod touch is ...
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Detect the specific iPhone/iPod touch model in Javascript
I am developing a website for Apple i* devices which uses HTML5 webkit features like transitions but I want to disable some of the fancy stuff for older/slower iPhone models like iPhone < 3GS and ...
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Can an iPhone or iPod Touch communicate with another device in the same room?
I'm new to developing applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Is it possible to communicate directly between 2 devices in the same room by using WiFi or perhaps even BlueTooth on the iPhone?
I'...
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How to prevent Ipod Touch Application from going to sleep
I am building an application for the ipod touch that needs to run for several time (like an alarm clock). I would like to prevent the ipod touch from going to sleep unless the use manually exit the ...
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What debugging techniques do you use for iPhone/iPod web development?
I'm working on a web application, and we are targeting the iPhone and iPod Touch. I'm familiar with the debugging tools for FireFox and IE (e.g. Firebug and IE Developer Toolbar), but I can't find ...
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enabledRemoteNotificationTypes returns wrong value on ios 6.0.1 ipod
We are checking to see if APNs are enabled by using the UIApplication's enabledRemoteNotificationTypes method. This works fine for iPhones with iOS 6 and below. However, on an iPod with iOS 6.0.1, the ...
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Multitasking on iOS4: Does it work only on iPhones?
I have iOS 4.0 on an iPod Touch 2nd Gen.
There's absolutely no multitasking working. Nothing goes to the background, and double-tapping the Home Button results in just nothing. I wanted to test my ...
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Using 3D objects in an iOS app
How would I go about adding a 3D object from Maya into an iOS app? For now, before it gets too complicated, I just want to add it in, no response to touch yet. Is there a tutorial about this? Thanks!
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iPhone/iPad. How do I launch an app from link in Safari?
I have an app that I want to be launchable either explicitly when tapped or when a parameterized URL is clicked on on a webpage in Safari running on iPad or iPhone.
Can someone sketch the approach ...
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Xcode: iPod Touch Simulator?
I'd like to test my app on the ipod touch. But in Xcode I don't see a simulator for this (I only see a simulator for iphone 3gs, iphone 4, and ipad).
Do you know if there's a way to run an ipod touch ...
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Is there a (legal) way to capture the ENTIRE screen under iOS?
I've tried several techniques to capture a screenshot of an app from within that app. None of the techniques appear to capture the status bar -- it ends up being black.
There apparently was once a ...
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