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iPhone Tutorial: Authenticating with a RESTful service using NSURLCredential In this RESTful world, access to any modern data-rich website is restricted with some kind of authentication mechanism. Several known open authentication mechanisms used on Web are HTTP Basic (RFC 1945) and HTTP Digest authentication (RFC 2617). While discussing Basic or Digest itself is a separate blog post, or a lengthy

Update: A Russian translation available at osxdev.ru here iPhone 5 is out and it poses a new challenge to developers, a bigger screen. iOS developers have never been required to support multiple device resolutions in the past. But fret not, Apple has made things easy for us. Follow the four steps below and you are all set. Step 1: iPhone 5 requires a new instruction set, the armv7s. Only the lates

Recently, Apple introduced several new developer stuff including Xcode 4, ARC, LLVM Compiler 3.0 and iOS 5. From some of the questions on Stack overflow, I could understand that, most of the ARC related confusions arise due to the fact that, developers don’t know if “ABC” is a feature/restriction of LLVM 3.0 or iOS 5 or ARC. Retain cycles, auto-release pools, @autorelease blocks, oh man! So many n

iOS Code: MKiCloudSync – Sync your NSUserDefaults to iCloud with a single line of code Just wrote this class, MKiCloudSync (100 lines of code) that auto syncs your NSUserDefaults to iCloud. How to use? All you need to do is to enable iCloud key value store entitlements, copy the files and forget about the rest. Step 1: Enable iCloud entitlements for your app. This is easily done in Xcode 4.2.1 by

Update: MKStoreKit 4.0, an updated version of the one presented here is available. Please check it out and use 4.0 instead of this. Update: A Chinese translation is available here. Last week, Apple announced that in-app purchases will be available for free apps as well. This could probably free developers from creating “lite” and “pro” versions of the app and allow developers to “unlock” features