One of the more visually appealing aspects of iOS development is the crisp transition effect. Whenever you see a beautiful iOS app, it has all the elements interacting with each other seamlessly with gorgeous transitions and other visually appealing effects. If you have tried your hand at building one of these apps, you must have … Continue reading Transition Effects In iOS Apps
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Storyboards vs XIBs
The concept of storyboarding was introduced by Apple in iOS 5. This was the first major deviation from using the interface builder to build iOS apps. Storyboards were created to help developers visualize the flow of the application. It is a lot like having a bunch of XIBs, but in a single file. You can … Continue reading Storyboards vs XIBs
How To Remove The Gloss From The iOS App Icon?
Not a big fan of the glossy effect on your iOS app icon? Well, let's remove it then. The glossiness in the app icons epitomizes the skeuomorphic design that Apple embraced a few years ago. When it first came out, it was all new and exciting. Apple is now moving to a flat design with iOS … Continue reading How To Remove The Gloss From The iOS App Icon?
How To Convert iPhone XIB To iPad XIB?
So you started a universal iOS app and finished up everything on the iPhone XIB. Now it's time to do the iPad XIB. But wait a minute, do we have to redo the whole thing? Isn't it repetitive and tedious to all the mappings and connections all over again? The good thing is that there … Continue reading How To Convert iPhone XIB To iPad XIB?
How To Change The Name Of Your iOS App In Xcode?
So you started your app with some silly name and it actually grew into a good project. Now how should we change this name into something more meaningful without Xcode going bonkers over some weird compiler error? Luckily, Xcode has a provision for that. Using Xcode 4.x, we can just do a simple thing and … Continue reading How To Change The Name Of Your iOS App In Xcode?
OpenCV On Mac: How To Get It Up And Running?
OpenCV is a computer vision library used extensively by people in the computer vision field. Until a couple of years ago, OpenCV was a bit hacky and the usage was not very straightforward. But determined efforts by multiple companies finally standardized the process and now it is nice and clean. Computer vision algorithms are computationally … Continue reading OpenCV On Mac: How To Get It Up And Running?
Git Is Gone In OS X Mountain Lion
This blog post is for a very specific group of people who cared enough to notice that git command line tool is not working on their brand new MacBooks with Mountain Lion! If that sentence didn't make sense to you, then you are probably at the wrong place. I got my new Mac last week … Continue reading Git Is Gone In OS X Mountain Lion
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