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If you’re ever looking for a challenge worth pulling your teeth out, making an iPhone App is a great place to start. Dealing with robots and living in Montreal, I’ve seen my fair share of challenges. Somehow, iPhone Apps are different. It’s overwhelmingly difficult, and oddly enough addicting.
The language, the concepts, everything is completely different from what is seen in languages like Java and C++. I’m starting to understand the concepts much more now. It really clicked once I saw the code of how table view cells are iterated through. In ObjC, things happen because of code that is called somewhere even though you have no idea what is going on. It’s a flowy type of thing- you don’t expect to see for-loops anywhere!
This is how a TableView is iterated through for its contents. In mine, it changes the font on the first and second ones… Image may be NSFW.
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// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
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- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
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UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
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if (cell == nil) {
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cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
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}
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// Set up the cell…
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//First get the dictionary object
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cell.textLabel.text = cellValue;
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if([indexPath row] == 0 && [indexPath section] == 0) {
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cell.detailTextLabel.text = @"Edit Me\n\crhi";
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}
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if([indexPath section] < 2) {
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UIFont *titleFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Georgia-BoldItalic" size:18.0];
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[[cell textLabel] setFont:titleFont];
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} else {
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UIFont *titleFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:20.0];
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[[cell textLabel] setFont:titleFont];
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}
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return cell;
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}
As you can see, it’s abstract. REALLY CRAZY ABSTRACT. Even if you can’t see it, it’s abstract.
I’ve been working on Apps for a large part of time of the day for many weeks now. Usually from 11PM until I get keyboard-faced (around 2AM). Wake up at 6AM and do it all over again! Image may be NSFW.
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It’s a slow and tedious process.
One of the Apps that I’ve been working on for ages now was finally approved. It was rejected three times previously!!! It’s called North Country Now (for a local newspaper), and it has links to their website, Twitter, and a map of the areas that they cover. It also has view transitions and works seamlessly (That’s kinda important)! Click below to go to the App store to download it onto your iPhone/iPod/iPad.
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It’s a really simple concept, but it will prove extremely effective for local small-medium sized businesses that want to extend their reach into the next generation. If you’re reading this and want to know how much it costs for your business to have one of these Apps, contact me and I will let you know We worked really hard to make it a fair and equal price. Image may be NSFW.
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Never give up on a challenge! Give things time, and they will surprise you. =)