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 noticed that there are a couple of default options available, like flip or curl. But how do we go past this? How do we build all the fancy transition effects into our app? There are actually two different approaches you can follow. Continue reading “Transition Effects In iOS Apps”
Tag: Xcode
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 also create custom transitions via code that will change dynamically if needed, much like you can with XIBs. But a lot of people who are new to iOS development get confused between XIBs and Storyboards. What should you use for your project? Does it matter one way or the other? 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 7, and besides, some icons just don’t look good with the gloss. As far as removing the glossiness is concerned, there are basically two ways to do this. Well, actually the same thing happens under the hood, one is basically a shortcut for the other. Let’s see how to to do it. 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 is a way around it. You only need to do minimal work to get your iPad XIB up and running on Xcode 4. 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 make the whole thing work like a charm. Before doing anything, you have to decide if you just want to change the name as it appears on the iPhone screen or if you really want to change the entire naming structure. If you just want to change the name as it appears to a user, you can change the name of your bundle and you will be all set! 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 intensive, requiring lot of processing power to run in real time. Before OpenCV came along, the efforts were very fragmented and repetitive, and there was no standard library as such. Hence Intel decided to do something about it and came up with OpenCV. The advantage of OpenCV is that the algorithms are highly optimized and the library is available on almost all the popular platforms. I have outlined the procedure below to get OpenCV up and running on your Mac. 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 and I wanted to clone some code from Github. So I opened the terminal to clone it and behold, “git” is apparently not a recognized command! I have already installed the latest developer preview of Xcode (version 4.6 DP3), so what went wrong here? It turns out that we need to manually install the git command line tools. We still live in a world where git is not an integral part of all the systems! Xcode 4.6 doesn’t install the command line tools by default, and Git is one of the tools included in these command line tools. Anyway, there’s a simple fix for it. Continue reading “Git Is Gone In OS X Mountain Lion”
Perpetual Enigma 