So as usual, I wish someone had written this in a blog post. And now that I’ve figured it out, I’m paying it forward, so to speak. The big revelation here is: if you’re using Game Kit (GK) foundation from Apple, iPhone development 3.x SDK, then you may encounter a networking object called “PeerPickerController”. It…

I can’t think of a title for this post- there’s so much to say. The short version: I attended an intense 2-day hackfest for the iPad down at the eBay offices in San Jose, called iPadDevCamp (used to be iPhoneDevCamp). We were hesitant app developers, we made a tiny little dice throwing app – connecting…

In the simple example explained in this tutorial, and others, there are a few key points that I wish I’d seen in a blog somewhere, ha. It’s best to deal with literals, so I am recreating the example quickly, with notes on what aspects to check. If you have a complex or already created app,…

My skill level jumped up by leaps and bounds through a few guided reviews of my code with a friend. Here’s what I learned, for posterity and retaining my own lesson, ha. Objective-C has C-styled instance variable initialization and assignment It may be confusing, but I kept seeing code examples that had this: NSArray *imageArray…

I am chugging right along on this application- and, you guessed it, a cootie catcher. The next step is to create a simple animation of the paper toy opening and closing (based on user selection). The task: based upon a button click, animate 3 images to simulate the opening and closing of the toy. Slightly…