For a project I am currently working on, I had the need to have more control over an animation sequence of images then what the built in support that UIView or CALayer provides. The import features I needed included sound coordination and heterogeneous frame durations. So, I wrote my own class to do this. Read More...

Tags: Sample Code, CALayer, UIView, Animation, Sound

Sometime it is prefered that the image that gets displayed in an iPhone app is downloaded from the internet, much like an image in a web page. In order to make displaying a networked image as simple to accomplish as the UIKit's UIImageView, I created the MKNetworkImageView class.
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Tags: MKNetworkImageView, Sample Code, networking, threads

While the iPhone SDK has facilities to show a number badge on your app's icon or in a toolbar, it doesn't allow you to arbitrarily place or use number badges. So, I wrote a view class that implements a number badge. Read More...

Tags: MKNumberBadgeView, UIView, badge, Sample Code

The AVAudioPlayer found in iPhone OS 2.2 has one flaw: the user can only adjust app volume while an AVAudioPlayer object is active. Read More...

Tags: Sound, AVAudioPlayer

A simple declaration on my intent to actually follow through with an iPhone development blog. Read More...