Category: iPhone

A one-liner to install my iOS app on my iPhone, no Xcode GUI

I've been building Lexitaire mostly from the command line these days — Xcode stays open for breakpoints and previews, but building, running, and installing don’t need it. The one piece I hadn’t automated yet was...

iPhone

Tips for iPhone with a broken lock button

My iPhone 4 has a broken lock button. This is really annoying, because I can’t just press a button to lock the phone. I found a workaround, which makes it possible (though still clumsy) to lock the phone. Settings | General |...

iPhone

Find my iPhone weirdness and how I fixed it

A few weeks ago, my wife lost her iPhone 4 and we bought another one. When I set up the phone in iTunes, I did a restore of the backup of her old phone and everything worked great. Except that I could not get her phone to show up...

iPhoneProgramming

The quest for a better UIAlertView

One of the things that has annoyed me while developing my iPhone game "Wordly" are dialogs that appear modal to the user, but are non-blocking from the programmer perspective. For example, let's take UIAlertView. You tell a...

iPhoneMacProgramming

Xcode/iPhone error 0xE8000001: problem and fix

As you all probably know, I've written a word game for the iPhone called Word Up! <shameless-plug> </shameless-plug> Tonight, I started getting an error while trying to run my app from Xcode on my device (provisioned...

iPhone

Test post from WordPress iPhone app

Test post from WordPress iPhone app Yay...

iPhone

Word Up! iPhone game now available from App Store

It took 9 days for Apple to approve it, but now my Word Up! iPhone word game is available on the iPhone App Store. If you like the app and would like to write a review about it, that would be much appreciated. Screenshots iPhone...