Highest scored 'iphone+ios5' questions

168 votes

6 answers

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What is the difference between a .xib file and a .storyboard?

Can someone explain in simple words the difference between .xib and .storyboard?

gsach

5,735

asked Dec 8, 2011 at 19:13

161 votes

1 answer

23k views

Xcode 4.2 - declaration of '...' will not be visible outside of this function warning

I use Apple Reachability class from Apple Sample code Reachability in Xcode 4.2 and new Apple 3.0 compiler I get warning in this class that + (Reachability*) reachabilityWithAddress: (const struct ...

Sergnsk

3,313

asked Oct 14, 2011 at 9:14

128 votes

16 answers

82k views

iPhone : How to detect the end of slider drag?

How to detect the event when the user has ended the drag of a slider pointer?

DroidHeaven

2,444

asked Feb 22, 2012 at 6:46

113 votes

6 answers

24k views

To ARC or not to ARC? What are the pros and cons? [closed]

I've yet to use ARC, since the majority of the code in the project I'm working on at the moment was written pre-iOS 5.0. I was just wondering, does the convenience of not retaining/releasing ...

Simon Withington

1,485

asked Jan 6, 2012 at 15:46

109 votes

7 answers

58k views

iOS 5 Best Practice (Release/retain?)

As a beginning iPhone programmer, what is the best practice for writing apps to be used either with iOS 5 or older versions? Specifically, should I continue using the release/retain of data, or should ...

Geekgirl

1,322

asked Jun 10, 2011 at 15:19

108 votes

3 answers

15k views

Override setter with arc

@interface Article : NSObject @property (nonatomic, strong) NSString *imageURLString; @end @implementation Class @synthesize imageURLString = _imageURLString; - (void)setImageURLString:(NSString ...

rowwingman

5,581

asked Oct 28, 2011 at 14:34

103 votes

8 answers

51k views

Is it possible to target older iOS versions when using Xcode 4.2 and iOS 5 SDK?

I just recently downloaded the Xcode 4.2 with iOS 5 SDK package and I immediately noticed that I am unable to use my iPhone 3Gs with iOS 4.2.1 for debugging. I am only able to debug and test on my ...

Greg Ellis

1,957

asked Oct 13, 2011 at 22:00

91 votes

5 answers

140k views

What is the iOS 5.0 user agent string?

What is the iOS 5.0 user agent string? Here is the iOS 4.0 user agent: What is the iPhone 4 user-agent?

chown

52.2k

asked Oct 19, 2011 at 18:01

88 votes

1 answer

128k views

How to select Multiple images from UIImagePickerController [duplicate]

In my application, I have to select more images ie; up to 3 images from library or capture of images.

Vara

989

asked Dec 24, 2013 at 7:41

88 votes

9 answers

16k views

Xcode version 4.6.2 (4H1003) compiler error

I just updated to Xcode version 4.6.2 (4H10003) and tried to run a previously working application project in the simulator and received the following error and the build failed. PCH file built from ...

OscarTheGrouch

2,374

asked Apr 16, 2013 at 2:23

85 votes

4 answers

53k views

ARC forbids Objective-C objects in structs or unions despite marking the file -fno-objc-arc

ARC forbids Objective-C objects in structs or unions despite marking the file -fno-objc-arc? Why is this so? I had the assumption that if you mark it -fno-objc-arc you don't have this restriction.

Zsolt

3,700

asked Nov 11, 2011 at 11:09

84 votes

10 answers

85k views

Share data between two or more iPhone applications

Is this possible to share data between two applications on the same device? Or can I allow some other application to use my application's information / data or in any other way? For example, the ...

Kamleshwar

2,977

asked Feb 24, 2012 at 5:09

80 votes

7 answers

18k views

AVAudioRecorder throws errors

I use AVAudioRecorder to record, it worked fine on iOS 4 devices, but yesterday we found out recording is broken on iOS5. Using the iPhone 5 simulator I got following error: 2011-08-02 11:09:03.586 ...

dcai

2,555

asked Aug 2, 2011 at 3:25

79 votes

1 answer

17k views

What properties can I set via an UIAppearance proxy?

What properties can I set via an UIAppearance proxy? Apple's UIKit documentation does not list them. Is there a list of these properties?

Emile Cormier

28.7k

asked Feb 24, 2012 at 1:27

66 votes

3 answers

14k views

iMessage Style Receding Keyboard in an iOS App

I've been wondering if it is possible to replicate the behavior of Apple's iOS5 keyboard in the messages app, without using any private API calls. When you scroll down past the keyboard in the ...

orta

4,265

asked Oct 15, 2011 at 21:28

59 votes

3 answers

46k views

How to call an action when UISwitch changes state?

I want to perform some action when UISwitch changes its state, thus is set on or off. How do I do this? I need to pass two objects as parameters. It's created in code, thus not using xib.

Ondrej

1,628

asked Dec 21, 2011 at 12:12

58 votes

4 answers

23k views

Do I have to call addSubview after calling addChildViewController?

I'm trying to create a container view controller using iOS5 and new methods like addChildViewController. Do I have to call addSubview after calling addChildViewController? Do I have to call ...

Ricardo

2,891

asked Apr 13, 2012 at 15:36

57 votes

2 answers

80k views

How to insert utf-8 mb4 character(emoji in ios5) in mysql?

plenty

583

asked Oct 18, 2011 at 22:03

54 votes

6 answers

42k views

Get the extension of a file contained in an NSString

I have an NSMutable dictionary that contains file IDs and their filename+extension in the simple form of fileone.doc or filetwo.pdf. I need to determine what type of file it is to correctly display a ...

jer-k

1,413

asked Feb 11, 2012 at 23:52

54 votes

7 answers

50k views

How to change the UISwitch default color(blue)

How to change the default color(blue) of a UISwitch?

Prasad

1,904

asked Dec 22, 2011 at 11:56

53 votes

4 answers

70k views

Error with NSJSONSerialization - Invalid type in JSON write (Menu)

I have an App using core data with 3 entities with very similar attributes. The relationship is such as: Branch ->> Menu ->> Category ->> FoodItem Each entity has an associated class: example I ...

Vaibhav Garg

3,679

asked Mar 27, 2012 at 15:58

51 votes

10 answers

18k views

Unable to process application info.plist validation at this time due to a general error (1095)

I am creating a newsstand application. the application is ready, now i am trying to upload the app in apple store using Application Loader. While uploading the zip file its showing the error message ...

Naveen

900

asked Dec 2, 2011 at 7:29

50 votes

9 answers

65k views

Xcode/iOS5: Move UIView up, when keyboard appears

I'd like to move up my view, when the keyboard is shown. The keyboard (height: 216) should push up my view with it's height. Is this possible with a simple code?

filou

1,609

asked Oct 31, 2011 at 10:59

50 votes

3 answers

19k views

iOS 5: Curious about UIAppearance

On the tech talk 2011 I saw a speech about the new UIAppearance protocol. There is not a lot of documentation out there yet. I will shortly summarize what I remember to explain where my question is ...

d.ennis

3,455

asked Nov 24, 2011 at 13:05

46 votes

10 answers

32k views

How to "cancel" a UIStoryBoardSegue

Does anyone know how to "stop" a segue transition conditionally: My table view cells represent products which can be viewed in a drill-down "detail" view... or cannot! (It depends on a couple of ...

Fabio B.

9,282

asked Oct 19, 2011 at 10:20

46 votes

6 answers

16k views

iOS 5 does not allow to store downloaded data in Documents directory?

I have made an application for my client by keeping target iOS as 4. But since the application still not submitted to Apple store, my client is planning to upgrade it for iOS 5.0. For this I read ...

Naved

4,068

asked Nov 21, 2011 at 9:02

45 votes

1 answer

19k views

how to use delegates with Automatic Reference Counting

I've jumped on the ARC bandwagon. In the past I would have my delegate properties declared like this: @property(assign) id<MyProtocol> delegate; So I thought I would do this under ARC: @...

Mike S

4,112

asked Jun 30, 2011 at 1:53

44 votes

4 answers

71k views

Detect Focus Change for UITextField

I'm trying to set the animation for the view to move up when keyboard is hiding and appearing for the text fields and I got it to work perfectly fine, but when the focus moves from one text field to ...

Dennis

3,536

asked May 20, 2012 at 7:47

44 votes

5 answers

71k views

dismissViewControllerAnimated is called but ViewController is not dismissed

I am having a problems with the dismissViewControllerAnimated method not closing down the view. What is happening in the app here is: Cell in ItemViewController is selected. View is pushed to ...

Ad Taylor

2,775

asked Jan 24, 2012 at 15:00

42 votes

4 answers

12k views

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using ARC? [closed]

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the new automatic reference counting (ARC) memory management style in an iOS project? Can you choose not to use ARC when developing with the iOS 5.0 ...

user141302

asked Oct 25, 2011 at 11:29

40 votes

14 answers

57k views

How to get the user's country calling code in iOS?

I am developing an iOS app in which the user enters their mobile number. How do I get their country calling code? For example, if a user is in India, then +91 should be prefixed automatically. Is ...

user2681789

895

asked Sep 14, 2013 at 4:48

39 votes

3 answers

30k views

To stop segue and show alert

Using iOS 5 storyboards, on a button I am performing a segue, what I want is to do validation on my textfield and if validation is failed I have to stop segue and throw an alert. Whats the way to do ...

Firdous

4,642

asked Feb 23, 2012 at 5:16

38 votes

5 answers

13k views

Crash when adding persistent store (iCloud enabled) in app delegate

I am going to start updating this to help those seeking to use this as reference for their own personal code. Newest update I'm fairly sure I have found a way to resync devices back together once ...

justin

5,821

asked Nov 5, 2011 at 17:04

37 votes

2 answers

19k views

UISegmentedControl change event not firing in iOS5

I have a UISegmentedControl whose "Value changed" event is wired up in Interface Builder to call my controller's -(IBAction)segmentChangeAction:(id)sender; When the user taps on the control to change ...

Clafou

15.3k

asked Nov 8, 2011 at 17:38

36 votes

12 answers

48k views

Unable to add a source with url

[!] Unable to add a source with url [email protected]:CocoaPods/Specs.git named master-1. You can try adding it manually in ~/.cocoapods/repos or via pod repo add. please any help

rajesh

391

asked Mar 27, 2015 at 13:26

36 votes

2 answers

17k views

Core Data's NSPrivateQueueConcurrencyType and sharing objects between threads

iOS 5 introduced a new way to quickly fetch data on a background thread by initializing the MOC using NSPrivateQueueConcurrencyType and then doing the fetch in performBlock: One of the rules of thumb ...

samvermette

40.4k

asked Dec 26, 2011 at 17:45

36 votes

11 answers

20k views

iOS5 show numeric keypad by default without using type="number" or type="tel"

With the release of iOS5, Apple has added their own validation to input type="number" form fields. This is causing some issues; see this question below which sums it up: Input type='number' ...

marissajmc

2,603

asked Nov 22, 2011 at 5:46

36 votes

6 answers

7k views

NSFetchedResultsController and NSOrderedSet relationships

I am having an issue (understanding issue to be honest) with NSFetchedResultsController and the new NSOrderedSet relationships available in iOS 5. I have the following data-model (ok, my real one is ...

Damien

2,421

asked Jan 6, 2012 at 13:21

34 votes

7 answers

39k views

Apple touch icon isn't showing up on the home screen

I'm using the following code to get touch icons for mobile devices - it's based on the html5boilerplate/mobile example: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <...

gpr

959

asked Oct 25, 2011 at 6:20

33 votes

6 answers

38k views

Modal view controller won't dismiss itself

What I'm doing: In my app, I'm presenting a modal view controller (containing app settings) using the following code: optionsViewController.modalTransitionStyle = ...

Jordan Smith

10.4k

asked Jul 2, 2011 at 13:51

33 votes

5 answers

10k views

Can you pass WiFi settings from an iOS device to an ExternalAccessory object?

I've heard that iOS 5 introduced a feature in which the iOS device can share its wifi configuration with a docked accessory via the ExternalAccessory framework. The trouble is that I can't find any ...

njt

521

asked Jan 11, 2012 at 15:23

31 votes

5 answers

35k views

How to write exif metadata to an image (not the camera roll, just a UIImage or JPEG)

I am aware of how to save metadata using ALAssets. But, I want to save an image, or upload it somewhere, with exif intact. I have exif data as an NSDictionary. But how can I inject it properly into a ...

akaru

6,299

asked Jan 25, 2012 at 17:02

31 votes

5 answers

5k views

GLKView set drawable properties

I'm trying to port Apples GLPaint example to use GLKit. Using a UIView, its possible to return the CAEAGLLayer of the view and set the drawableProperties to include ...

Brett

2,635

asked Feb 22, 2012 at 13:28

29 votes

5 answers

18k views

How can I init a text field in a UIAlertView

The updated UIAlertView now has a style which allows a Text input field in UIAlertView i.e. alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput; This works well but I wanted to init the input text ...

timeview

291

asked Mar 8, 2012 at 14:36

29 votes

7 answers

10k views

iOS: different addSubview behavior between iOS 4.3 and 5.0

while coding in iOS 4.3 before, I found while add a view controller's view to another view with [superview addSubView:controller.view], the controller instance will not receive the -viewWillAppear/...

KrzyCube

303

asked Oct 20, 2011 at 3:31

28 votes

6 answers

45k views

Detect when home button is pressed iOS

I have several iOS apps that all use the same port to listen for a network beacon. On the main view I use viewWillDisappear to close the port when another view is opened, which was working great. ...

nick

2,833

asked Apr 25, 2012 at 22:15

28 votes

4 answers

8k views

Trying to "follow" someone on Twitter using new iOS 5 API, getting 406 return error. Why?

Trying to "follow" someone on Twitter using new iOS 5 API, getting 406 return error. Why? Is my code correct? Need to find out why this isn't working.... - (void)followOnTwitter:(id)sender { ...

Ethan Allen

14.6k

asked Nov 10, 2011 at 20:24

28 votes

2 answers

13k views

ARC, Blocks and Retain Cycles

Working on an iOS project that targets 4.0 and 5.0, using ARC. Running into an issue related to blocks, ARC and referencing an object from outside the block. Here's some code: __block ...

Hunter

4,353

asked Oct 13, 2011 at 22:15

27 votes

4 answers

13k views

How to test printing from iPhone App if we do not have AirPrint enabled Printers?

Is there a way to test whether correct pages are being passed for printing from iPhone App if we do not have AirPrint enabled printers? Please let me know.

meetpd

9,219

asked Jan 27, 2012 at 4:05

27 votes

9 answers

35k views

UITextField - Rounded corner issue

I bring the issue forward which I face. I am creating a UITextField programmatically as below. UItextField *mobileNumberField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 195, 300, 41)]; ...

iOS

3,596

asked Dec 5, 2012 at 5:40

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