TracKit 1.0
I’ve shipped the first version of my new app, TracKit, today. It’s a little tool that I personally love to use. I love tracking things, lots of things. I might even be guilty of overdoing it. I like to track the number of hours I sleep, how many kilometers I...
iOS 7 Wishlist
I’m pretty sure everyone of us that uses iOS always has a wishlist for the upcoming version. I’ll keep mine simple. Those are the top 8 things that I wish to have in iOS 7. Better sharing between apps (hint: Android) Ability to set default apps A better email app...
AFNetworking, NSURLCache & iOS 6
NSURLCache can be used to define memory and disk caching for URL requests. If you make a connection while you are not connected to the internet with the cache policy set to NSURLRequestReturnCacheDataElseLoad, data should be returned from the cache if it exists. This works as expected on iOS 5 and cached...
NileFM Streaming App
I wrote a streaming app for NileFM a while ago but it never got accepted into the App Store. I’ve placed the code on GitHub which serves as a good tutorial for streaming apps that uses MPMoviePlayerController or even a starting point for a more complex app. Check the repo on GitHub: https://github.com/HeshamMegid/NileFM...
Google Currents-style UISegmentedControl
Introducing HMSegmentedControl, a drop-in replacement for UISegmentedControl mimicking the style of the segmented control used in Google Currents for iOS. Grab the code from GitHub: https://github.com/HeshamMegid/HMSegmentedControl Usage The code on GitHub includes a demo project showing how to use the control. To use in your own project, first import HMSegmentedControl.m...