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CGSize maxSize = CGSizeMake(200.0f, CGFLOAT_MAX); CGSize requiredSize = [label sizeThatFits:maxSize]; label.frame = CGRectMake(10, 10, size.width, size.height);
Sizing labels with -[NSString sizeWithFont:…] – WRONG
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Category Archives: iPhone
Customize UIPopoverController
Popovers are very common within the iPad user interface but you were restricted to the design provided by Apple. With iOS 5 came a little known class called UIPopoverBackgroundView which allows you to provide a custom border and arrow for the popover.
Full tutorial with sample code here.
iPhone – transparent imageview tint
Drop-in solution for a tintable/blendable “imageview”:
The .h file:
#import@interface UIBlendableImageView : UIView - (id)initWithImage:(UIImage*)image andTintColor:(UIColor*)tintColor; @end
The .m file:
#import "UIBlendableImageView.h" #import@implementation UIBlendableImageView - (id)initWithImage:(UIImage*)image andTintColor:(UIColor*)tintColor { self = [super initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width, image.size.height)]; if (self) { UIImageView *maskImageView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image] autorelease]; [maskImageView setFrame:[self bounds]]; [[self layer] setMask:[maskImageView layer]]; [self setBackgroundColor:tintColor]; } return self; } @end
Remove all accents in NSString
// convert to a data object, using a lossy conversion to ASCII
NSData *asciiEncoded = [yourOriginalString dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding
allowLossyConversion:YES];
// take the data object and recreate a string using the lossy conversion
NSString *other = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:asciiEncoded
encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
// relinquish ownership
[other autorelease];
Preventing backup to iCloud
5.1 and up
- (BOOL)addSkipBackupAttributeToItemAtURL:(NSURL *)URL
{
assert([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath: [URL path]]);
NSError *error = nil;
BOOL success = [URL setResourceValue: [NSNumber numberWithBool: YES]
forKey: NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey error: &error];
if(!success){
NSLog(@"Error excluding %@ from backup %@", [URL lastPathComponent], error);
}
return success;
}
5.0.1
#import- (BOOL)addSkipBackupAttributeToItemAtURL:(NSURL *)URL { assert([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath: [URL path]]); const char* filePath = [[URL path] fileSystemRepresentation]; const char* attrName = "com.apple.MobileBackup"; u_int8_t attrValue = 1; int result = setxattr(filePath, attrName, &attrValue, sizeof(attrValue), 0, 0); return result == 0; }
Runtime iOS Version Checking
Simple preprocessor macros to detect the current iOS version at runtime.
The NSNumericSearch compare option is very clever and can evaluate various types of numeric strings, including period separated integer strings!
/*
* System Versioning Preprocessor Macros
*/
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_EQUAL_TO(v) ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedSame)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(v) ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedDescending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v) ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedAscending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(v) ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] == NSOrderedAscending)
#define SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(v) ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] compare:v options:NSNumericSearch] != NSOrderedDescending)
/*
* Usage
*/
if (SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(@"4.0")) {
...
}
if (SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO(@"3.1.1")) {
...
}
Reachability with ARC and GCD
This is a drop-in replacement for Apples Reachability class. It is ARC compatible, uses the new GCD methods to notify of network interface changes.
In addition to the standard NSNotification it supports the use of Blocks for when the network becomes reachable and unreachable.
Finally you can specify wether or not a WWAN connection is considered “reachable”.
How to dispatch on main queue synchronously without a deadlock?
void runOnMainQueueWithoutDeadlocking(void (^block)(void))
{
if ([NSThread isMainThread])
{
block();
}
else
{
dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), block);
}
}
Parsing date fields with NSDateFormatter ignoring locale
In many cases if the iOS device international settings is not set to US, you may have errors parsing text-based dates from e.g. RSS feeds.
The solution is to set the NSDateFormatter locale to en_US_POSIX.
NSLocale *locale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US_POSIX"]; [dateFormatter setLocale:locale]; [locale release];
by Luke Redpath on Stackoverflow.com
Android Toast-like HUD for iOS
If you wish to easily report status of background processes to the user, on Android you may use Toast class, however iOS lacks of this great feature. But there is a great library, that provides even more features than Android version: MBProgressHUD.