Accessing iPhone Call History
Posted: August 19, 2011 Filed under: Tutorial | Tags: call, call_history.db, history, ios, iphone, log, NSDirectoryEnumerator, NSFileManager, objective-c, sqlite, xcode 105 CommentsAlthough there is no API in the SDK to access iPhone’s Call History, there is a read-only SQLite database that gives access to the call history. In this tutorial, we shall learn what is the name of this database; where is it stored; what is its schema; and finally how can we access it?
Creating ‘Pulse’ style scrolling – Horizontally scrolling UITableView as a subview of UITableViewCell
Posted: June 29, 2011 Filed under: Tutorial | Tags: cell, cgaffinetransform, cgaffinetransformmakerotation, custom, horizontal, horizontal scroll, horizontal tables, horizontal tableviews, horizontal tableviews like pulse, ios, iphone, m_pi_2, pulse, rotate, rotated tables, rotation, scrolling, sdk, subview, table, tableview, tableviewcell, transform, uitableviewcell, uitableviewcontroller, uitableviewdatasource, uitableviewdelegate, xcode 111 Comments‘Pulse’ is a free news reading application for iPhone, iPad, and Android by Alphonso Labs Inc. I was introduced to Pulse through an iTunes U lecture from Stanford University “10 Hacks to go from Idea to #1 App”. In that lecture, the developers have mentioned that they have used horizontal UITableViews to create the Interface. Intrigued as I was, I had to try it myself and you should also.
Making a Video (and Photo) Thumbnail Gallery using Three20 Framework
Posted: June 24, 2011 Filed under: Tutorial | Tags: gallery, mpmovieplayer, photo, photo scroller, scroll, three20, thumbnail, ttphoto, ttthumbsviewcontroller, tutorial, uiimagepicker, uiimageview, uiscrollview, video, xcode 17 CommentsThere is a huge number of tutorials on how to use three20 to create photo gallery but only very few on how to create photo gallery with thumbnails (they usually focus on creating galleries that start with scrollable photos.) And none at all on creating a video gallery. Therefore, I present this tutorial, which explains the method of creating a video gallery in detail. Starting from compiling three20 into a project, going through making a thumbnail gallery of photos and finally making a thumbnail gallery containing videos.
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