Did Apple rejected your app because it is a “trial version”? Are you looking to have an in-app purchase item in your Mac app? Read here to see the correct way to add in-app purchase items for the Mac App Store.
Painless UIAlertView
Have you been using UIAlertView and find it a big hassle just to get a simple Yes/No answer from the user? This could just be the medicine to cure your pain.
Seeding iCloud Core Data Store
Deciding when to pre-populate a Core Data store is a real headache when you need to sync that data store across many devices. However you can learn from my experience and save you the headache that I had to went through.
Introducing the Core Data Controller
Here is a document class replacement for managing your library-style app based on Core Data. All the goodness of NSDocument / UIDocument with just the right functionalities when you don’t need to expose document-management functionality to your users.
Reverse-Engineering iCloud Keychain
Ever wonder how iCloud Keychain or 1Password works? Wonder no more.
Programmatically Sending Rich Text e-mail with Attachments on the Mac
If your users needs a precomposed e-mail with attachments, now you can easily do it on the Mac with a few lines of code
Tips for Architecting Dual-platform OS X / iOS Applications
How to share common code between OS X and iOS and architect your app to dance around each platform’s similarities and differences.
Faster Android Development on the Mac
Debugging on Android can be a pain at times – some of these can be attributed to the architecture of its developer tools. If you find the emulator’s startup time to be too slow for you, there may be a configuration option that you’ve overlooked and can make the emulator a lot fster.
Two Macros to Speed Your Singletons
How to use singletons properly and how to supercharge your singleton writing.
Bringing Web Analytics for your Desktop App
Are you yearning for Flurry Analytics or Google Mobile Analytics for your Mac OS X application? Seek no more as your day is saved!
Crazy App Idea: JDBC on Cocoa
Do you know why it’s so hard to gain access to an SQL database from a Mac App? Here’s why and the solution to your database access woes. Warning: it’s slightly off-beat and rad.
Pull-to-refresh that goes both ways
Turbocharged OS X scroll view component that supports “pull-to-refresh” on at the top and bottom edges – perfect for a timeline display view component.
Introduction to Cocoa: NSLinguisticTagger in NSBrief podcast #72
Get your Cocoa app to recognize verbs, nouns, or even people and company names using NSLinguisticTagger. Listen to what other cool stuff that this nifty yet lesser known class can do for you.
One NSWindow handling multiple NSDocument instances
Cocoa’s document architecture envisions that a window should only handle one document. However library-type applications may need one window to handle multiple documents so that the user can easily switch between libraries without restarting the application. Here’s how you can hack AppKit so that a single window handle multiple documents.