iOS App: Bunny Matcher

Introduction I recently finished a game for iOS called Bunny Matcher. This will probably be my last iOS app for awhile, as I want to do more Android development. I’m also ramping up with my new job doing iOS development, so I get plenty of practice with Objective-C every day. Bunny Matcher has the same […]

Jumbly: A Jumble Game for iOS

I’ve been working on building my mobile development portfolio. While reviewing my repositories on GitHub, I came across a word game I wrote in ColdFusion for a presentation about Regular Expressions. I figured it might make a decent game, so I chose to implement it as my next iOS application. Jumbly is a word jumble-type […]

Buzzy Bingo

I was chatting with a co-worker the other day about project management, and we mentioned the prevalence of buzzwords. Then, we mentioned Buzzword Bingo, and I decided that to implement a Bingo application as an iOS app. I looked up Buzzword Bingo in the app store and only saw two implementations. I figured I’d write […]

Detecting a Table Cell Checkmark with Frank Cucumber

Frank allows you to test native iOS applications using Cucumber. I’m pretty comfortable with Cucumber already from work with Rails, so I have been excited to try Frank out. It works by compiling your native application with an HTTP Server that your tests interact with to inspect the state of your application. It includes another […]

Generating offline maps for iOS applications

Introduction Recently, I had to implement an offline mapping solution for an iOS application. Here’s a walkthrough of how to do it. Summary I generated a tile database using TileMill. I used the Route-Me iOS library which provides a map view that supports offline tile sources. TileMill Actually, generation of the tile database was the […]

Cocos2d iOS Game: Balloon Burst

My employer gives us a week off for the holidays, so I’d been trying to decide what to do with all of the time. Although I originally didn’t want to work on any programming projects, I wound up working on a few. One of them was inspired by a play of the iOS game Train […]

Scifihifi-iPhone Keychain Wrapper

Here’s a great wrapper that really simplifies working with KeyChain in iOS //log.scifihifi.com/post/55837387/simple-iphone-keychain-code. The code is on GitHub as well //github.com/ldandersen/scifihifi-iphone/tree/master/security/. Apple’s official documentation is here, and there is also a sample project, but it’s not a good example for getting up and running quickly. The version of the project (last updated 10/2009) doesn’t even […]

Jamie Ly

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