Some time ago I wrote a blog post about working with gzip compressed files on iPhone. Interestingly, it is one of the most frequently viewed posts on this blog according to the stats. Recently, one of my readers send me an email asking to post an example how to download a ZIP file from the web, uncompressing it and saving the result to the local file system. I decided to go through the code of one of my iPhone app prototypes which does exactly this task. In this blog post I briefly outline the steps to accomplish the goal. (more…)
Archive for February, 2009
Downloading and uncompressing ZIP files
Saturday, February 7th, 2009Increasing tapable area of accessory view
Saturday, February 7th, 2009The history view of TimeTracker which was introduced in version 1.1 and is accesible through the so-called detail disclosure button. Unfortunately, the default size of the tapable area which causes the history view to be shown is very small. This lead to complaints by our users because timers are started and stopped accidently if the user intended to view the history. One goal for version 2.0 is to circumvent this limitation. In this post I’ll describe a way how to increase the tapable area of the accessory view. (more…)
iPhone growth continues
Saturday, February 7th, 2009On January 21, Apple published the results for the first quarter 2009. Despite strong sales of Macs and iPods what’s interesting for us as iPhone developers are the sales figures of this device. About 4.3 million iPhones have been sold which represents a 88% increase in unit sales over the year-ago quarter. It’s now sold in 70 countries. (more…)